Robert Hamer
Nacimiento : 1911-03-31, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, UK
Muerte : 1963-12-04
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Robert James Hamer (31 March 1911, Kidderminster, Worcestershire – 4 December 1963, London) was a British film director and screenwriter. He was the son of the actor Gerald Hamer (1886-1972).
Hamer was won a scholarship to Cambridge University but was sent down (expelled) from Cambridge, and began his career in 1934 as a cutting room assistant and from 1935 worked as a film editor involved with such films as Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939) co-produced by Charles Laughton. At the end of the 1930s, he worked on documentaries for the GPO Film Unit.
When his boss at the GPO Alberto Cavalcanti moved to Ealing Studios, Hamer was invited to join him there. He gained some experience as a director by substituting for colleagues and contributed the 'haunted mirror' sequence to Dead of Night (1945). He followed this with the three Ealing films under his own name for which he is best remembered: Pink String and Sealing Wax (1946), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947), both featuring Googie Withers, and the black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), with Dennis Price and Alec Guinness.
Hamer died of pneumonia at the age of 52 at St Thomas's Hospital in London. An alcoholic, who was homosexual in an era when it was taboo in the UK, Hamer's career "now looks like the most serious miscarriage of talent in the postwar British cinema", according to film critic David Thomson.
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An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.
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Henry Palfrey se esfuerza mucho para impresionar a las chicas, pero siempre sale perdiendo. Entonces descubre un colegio especial dirigido por el profesor Potter que imparte cursos sobre los secretos del éxito.
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Un acaudalado conde francés engaña a un hombre que tiene un parecido físico increíble con él y lo fuerza a asumir su personalidad. (filmaffinit)
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Un acaudalado conde francés engaña a un hombre que tiene un parecido físico increíble con él y lo fuerza a asumir su personalidad. (filmaffinit)
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Un aristócrata escocés acompaña a París a su hijo de 20 años para mostrarle la ciudad, pero éste se muestra más interesado por encontrar esposa.
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Adaptación del relato de Chesterton "La cruz azul" (incluido en "El candor del Padre Brown"). El padre Brown (Alec Guinness), un sagaz y excéntrico párroco muy aficionado a desentrañar casos detectivescos, pierde una preciada cruz medieval que debía llevar de Londres a Roma. El autor del robo es el conocido ladrón de obras de arte Gustave Flambeau (Peter Finch), un experto en disfraces al que el perspicaz sacerdote intenta atrapar no sólo para recuperar la cruz, sino también para salvar su alma.
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Adaptación del relato de Chesterton "La cruz azul" (incluido en "El candor del Padre Brown"). El padre Brown (Alec Guinness), un sagaz y excéntrico párroco muy aficionado a desentrañar casos detectivescos, pierde una preciada cruz medieval que debía llevar de Londres a Roma. El autor del robo es el conocido ladrón de obras de arte Gustave Flambeau (Peter Finch), un experto en disfraces al que el perspicaz sacerdote intenta atrapar no sólo para recuperar la cruz, sino también para salvar su alma.
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Phillip Davidson (John Mills) visita un barco para pedirle al capitán la mano de su hija Fay. Una vez a bordo, se ve envuelto en una pelea provocada por las actividades criminales de Boyd, un traficante de personas. El barco se incendia, y durante la investigación de los hechos se halla un cadáver carbonizado.
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Phillip Davidson (John Mills) visita un barco para pedirle al capitán la mano de su hija Fay. Una vez a bordo, se ve envuelto en una pelea provocada por las actividades criminales de Boyd, un traficante de personas. El barco se incendia, y durante la investigación de los hechos se halla un cadáver carbonizado.
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A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
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A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
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"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Un joven ambicioso y sin escrúpulos (Dennis Price) proyecta vengar la afrenta que la aristocrática familia D'Ascoyne, a la cual pertenece, les ha infligido a él y a su madre. El plan consiste en eliminar a todos los miembros de la familia que le preceden en la sucesión al título de Duque.
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Un joven ambicioso y sin escrúpulos (Dennis Price) proyecta vengar la afrenta que la aristocrática familia D'Ascoyne, a la cual pertenece, les ha infligido a él y a su madre. El plan consiste en eliminar a todos los miembros de la familia que le preceden en la sucesión al título de Duque.
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Una mujer casada esconde a su ex amante, que acaba de escapar de la cárcel, en su casa de Londres. Está tan descontenta con su aburrido matrimonio que empieza a sentir que renace su antiguo amor por él. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Una mujer casada esconde a su ex amante, que acaba de escapar de la cárcel, en su casa de Londres. Está tan descontenta con su aburrido matrimonio que empieza a sentir que renace su antiguo amor por él. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Brighton, 1890. Un joven, hijo de un médico puritano, intenta escapar del represivo ambiente familiar y, sobre todo, de las restricciones que le impone su riguroso padre. Busca refugio en una taberna, donde se siente inmediatamente atraído por la sordidez de los bebedores y por los encantos de la tabernera.
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Brighton, 1890. Un joven, hijo de un médico puritano, intenta escapar del represivo ambiente familiar y, sobre todo, de las restricciones que le impone su riguroso padre. Busca refugio en una taberna, donde se siente inmediatamente atraído por la sordidez de los bebedores y por los encantos de la tabernera.
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En un caserón inglés se reúne un grupo de personas que comienzan a contar historias de misterio: la de un conductor de autobús que parece anunciar la muerte, la de un fantasma infantil que mora en una mansión, la de dos amigos enfrentados por una mujer incluso después de la muerte, la de un espejo maldito, la de un muñeco de ventrílocuo que controla a su propietario.
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British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.
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British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.
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Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
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Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
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George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Pearson then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.
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Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."
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Última película inglesa de Hitchcock, antes de su etapa americana. A finales del siglo XVIII, Mary (Maureen O'Hara), una joven huérfana irlandesa, va a Cornuailles para reunirse con su tía Patience, cuyo marido tiene una posada en la costa. Se trata de un lugar sórdido, cuyos huéspedes son bandidos que se dedican al saqueo de barcos y gozan de una impunidad total porque el cabecilla de la banda es un hombre respetable, un juez de paz (Charles Laughton) que les proporciona la información necesaria sobre el paso de las naves.
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On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
