C. Wilfred Arnold

Nacimiento : 1903-02-12, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, UK

Muerte : 1970-06-09

Películas

A Hole Lot of Trouble
Art Direction
Three workmen assigned to dig a hole in a road for an electrical cable run into problems with local officials who believe the hole is being dug in the wrong place and should be closer to the home of a prissy fashion designer.
Desaparecidos en la nada
Art Direction
Un militar (George Sanders) investiga las misteriosas desapariciones de paracaidistas. Los mandos responsables o bien ignoran las causas o bien se niegan a reportarlas, y pronto el militar se convence de la interferencia de seres extraterrestres.
Night After Night After Night
Art Direction
There's a killer on the loose in London, and whilst our typically craggy copper DI Rowan investigates, Judge Lomax is busy in court, dishing out harsh sentences to everyone who comes before him.
Eagle Rock
Art Direction
A young lad attempts to climb Eagle Rock by himself and learns the hard way that sometimes teamwork is the best way to do things.
The Password Is Courage
Art Direction
Durante la II Guerra Mundial, el sargento mayor Charles Coward ha sido capturado por los alemanes. Enviado a un campo de concentración cerca de Auschwitz, intentará escapar a toda costa. En su periplo vivirá todo tipo de peripecias e intentará salvar de la muerte a un judío.
Freedom to Die
Art Direction
Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box. When the cellmate dies, Owen breaks out of jail in search of the stash. Unable to open the box, the fugitive abducts Linda (Felicity Young), the dead man's daughter. Tension mounts as the girl plays for time to prevent her own demise.
Horror en el museo negro
Art Direction
Cuando el sol se esconde y los cielos se tornan oscuros, detrás de las puertas del MUSEO NEGRO se desata el horror. Las calles de Londres se visten con colores tétricros y se llenan de cadaveres, un asesino desconocido está sembrando el pánico y mantiene en jaque a Scotland Yard.
The Headless Ghost
Art Direction
Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.
Hidden Homicide
Production Design
A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
The Strange Awakening
Art Direction
Mientras recorre en moto el sur de Francia, Peter Chance es atacado por un autoestopista. Queda inconsciente en la cuneta sin identificación, y cuando despierta en una extraña habitación no recuerda nada del pasado. La propietaria de la casa le dice que es su hijo y que ha tenido un accidente, y que su madre, al morir, le ha dejado dos millones de dólares. Cuando aparece el autoestopista, Chance empieza a sospechar que algo huele a podrido.
Portrait of a Matador
Art Direction
A matador curses the painter of his portrait.
The Hypnotist
Art Direction
Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
The Key Man
Art Direction
The host of a radio crime show finds himself mixed up with real gangsters after he re-creates a notorious murder on the air. He uses his knowledge of criminology to foil the gang's wicked scheme.
The Intimate Stranger
Art Direction
Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio boss's daughter after which he quickly rises through the studio ranks. Then the letters begin to appear from a lovesick American actress who wants to know why he has thrown her over.
The Reluctant Bride
Art Direction
A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves in charge of a brood of wild kids whose parents, both famous explorers, are reported lost while on an African safari.
The Hornet's Nest
Production Design
Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's beautiful tenants and a pair of nosy old ladies. Directed by Charles Saunders, this amusing comedy finds the cunning criminal up against far stronger and more resilient adversaries than he ever anticipated. [Netflix]
One Jump Ahead
Art Direction
Paul Banner, a "noozeman" of the Daily Comet in England, is an American working in England. He happens on a murder that leads him on a complicated trail.
The Lyons in Paris
Art Direction
The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons. Ben Lyon appears to have forgotten his wedding anniversary making his wife Bebe furious. When his son sees him dining with a glamorous French singer he thinks the worst. But Ben has laid false evidence in order to surprise the whole family with a trip to France. Only, once in Paris, all the day's previous misunderstandings pail into insignificance at the compromising situations the Lyons get themselves into.
The Embezzler
Art Direction
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
Delayed Action
Art Direction
Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.
Escape by Night
Art Direction
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
The Tell-Tale Heart
Art Direction
Stanley Baker enacts the classic Edgar Allan Poe story in this chilling short film, only recently rediscovered after being lost for 50 years.
Three Steps to the Gallows
Art Direction
A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.
The Flanagan Boy
Art Direction
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.
Love in Pawn
Art Direction
A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him particularly the daughter! The wife tries to redeem her husband but finds she has lost the pawn ticket. In a short matter of time, the whole incident becomes a national sensation. Eventually, the husband arrives back at the houseboat just in time to prevent the wife from leaving him.
Lady in the Fog
Art Direction
In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freaky accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.
Worm's Eye View
Art Direction
Incidents in the lives of a group of R.A.F. men living in billets.
Marry Me
Art Direction
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
No Room at the Inn
Art Direction
A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
The Three Weird Sisters
Art Direction
Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
Loyal Heart
Art Direction
This heartwarming British drama is based on Beth the Sheepdog, a novel by Ernest Lewis. The story concerns the efforts of various interested human parties to enter Beth in the All-England Dog Championship. When a farmer is unsuccessful in his efforts to purchase Beth for his own, he spitefully accuses the dog’s owner of sheep stealing.
Green Fingers
Art Direction
A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is believed to have a chronic illness. He seems to cure her, and the case draws a lot of attention, some of it negative because he was unlicensed when he treated her. He still does not have a degree when he marries the daughter and begins practising osteopathy.
Meet the Navy
Art Direction
During World War II, the Canadian Navy gathered a troupe of diverse performers (dancers, comedians, singers, musicians) from its ranks and sent them off to entertain their shipmates, and the show/revue ultimately played London's Hioopodrome. The acceptance was based more on wartime-London's appreciation of the gallantry of Britain's sons and daughters from over the seas than it was on the artistic value of the show or the talent of the performers. The film is a fictional/fact mixture of the adventures of the troupe members, and the ending, only part filmed in Technicolor, is primarily the Revue as seen at the Hippodrome.
Appointment with Crime
Art Direction
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
Old Mother Riley at Home
Art Direction
Old Mother Riley and her daughter's true love, Dan, go in search of Kitty who has run off with her new boyfriend to a gambling den.
The Echo Murders
Art Direction
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
Meet Sexton Blake
Art Direction
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
The Agitator
Art Direction
A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.
Medal for the General
Art Direction
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
The Shipbuilders
Art Direction
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
The Dummy Talks
Art Direction
A ventriloquist is murdered during a theatre variety performance. A dwarf goes undercover as the dummy...
Theatre Royal
Art Direction
The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will soon be forced out of their jobs. The Royal's property master, Bob Parker (Bud Flanagan), recruits the rest of the staff to stage a benefit gala. They hope their show, featuring songs and dances, can raise enough cash to stave off the end. Meanwhile, they seek investors who can keep the Theatre Royal and its staff in business permanently.
Old Mother Riley Detective
Art Direction
A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller. A list of wartime foods to be rationed is stolen, and the police fear gangsters are planning to sell the foods on the black market. As the office charwoman, Old Mother Riley's fingerprints are all over the safe, and she becomes the police's number one suspect. To prove her innocence, Mother Riley turns detective, adopting various methods and disguises to track down the villains.
We’ll Smile Again
Art Direction
Nazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce.
Salute John Citizen
Art Direction
A typical working family have to cope with living through the Blitz, adapting to its privations, and eventually making the ultimate sacrifice for king & country.
An Englishman's Home
Art Direction
A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.
This Man Is News
Art Direction
A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.
Incident in Shanghai
Art Direction
An unhappy wife falls for an injured pilot.
Night Ride
Art Direction
Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to having his henchmen sabotage their trucks.
Museum Mystery
Art Direction
A gang of criminals plan to steal a valuable Burmese idol from a British museum but are foiled by the curator.
Brewster's Millions
Art Direction
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
Dick Turpin
Art Direction
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
The Flag Lieutenant
Art Direction
A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice
Tin Gods
Art Direction
A British drama film directed by F.W. Kraemer
El número 17
Art Direction
Una joven ladrona de joyas se enamora del detective que persigue a sus socios. Cuando está a punto de ser asesinado, ella no duda en salvarle. La banda, entonces, decide vengarse. La muchacha y el detective se ven obligados a huir y se refugian en el número 17 de una calle de los suburbios de Londres.
Money for Nothing
Art Direction
As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a farcical comedy of confused identities, romantic entanglements, and a fortune hiding in a hat.
Lo mejor es lo malo conocido
Art Direction
El contable Fred Hill y su esposa Emily darían lo que fuera por cambiar su monótona existencia de familia de clase media. Cuando un tío suyo les regala una gran cantidad de dinero, emprenden un lujoso viaje en barco por todo el mundo. Pero durante la travesía surgirán conflictos conyugales.
The Outsider
Set Designer
An unorthodox osteopath cures one of his patients, the daughter of a fellow Doctor.
The Price of Things
Art Direction
Courtenay John Dayre is drugged by a jealous spy on the night before his loveless marriage to Anthea. His twin, John Courtenay Dayre, reluctantly agrees to impersonate his brother at the wedding, only to discover a genuine affection for his accidental wife. Meanwhile, Courtenay begins to understand the price of things when he discovers that his affair has allowed a valuable military secret to be stolen.
Chantaje
Art Direction
Londres, 1929. Frank Webber, un detective de Scotland Yard muy ocupado, parece estar más interesado en su trabajo que en Alice White, su novia. Sintiéndose ignorada, Alice acepta salir con un elegante artista de educadas maneras que la invita a visitar su lujoso apartamento.
El hombre de la isla de Man
Art Direction
Pete Quilliam (Carl Brisson) es pescador, y su gran amigo desde la infancia, Philip Christian (Malcom Keen), quien ahora ejerce como abogado, viajan a la Isla de Man, donde Philip ha conseguido empleo a su amigo. La hija del empleador es una preciosa chica llamada Kate Cregeen (Anny Ondra) y, al conocerla, ambos amigos quedan prendados de ella, pero ante la efusividad y la atención que ella le presta a Pete, el abogado decide guardar prudente distancia dispuesto a ver qué ocurre entre ellos. Pero pronto el destino hará que Pete y Kate se separen durante un tiempo... y entonces, el joven pide a su amigo que cuide de su prometida hasta su regreso.
The First Born
Art Direction
Would-be politician Sir Hugo Boycott and his wife Madeleine have an unhappy marriage. Madeleine is aware that Hugo is a serial philanderer, and their problems are exacerbated when she fails to produce the heir he wants.
La mujer del granjero
Art Direction
El granjero Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) acaba de perder a su esposa, y tras haber casado a su única hija, ha quedado solo con su leal ama de llaves, Araminta (Lilian Hall-Davis) y con su ayudante Churdles Ash (Gordon Harker). Pensando entonces en volver a casarse, Sweetland hará una lista de los mejores prospectos que podría encontrar entre sus conocidas y su propósito, desde entonces, será conquistar a alguna de ellas.
The Silver Lining
Art Direction
The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mother and guilt ridden arranges for a band of gypsies to shoot him.
El ring
Art Direction
Jack es un boxeador de segunda fila, novio de Nelly. El campeón australiano Bob Corby, que oculta su verdadera identidad, está enamorado de la misma muchacha. Bob desafía y pelea a Jack, al que derrota ampliamente. Pero, para poder estar cerca de Nelly, Bob contrata a Kack para entrenar con él. No pasa mucho tiempo sin que la chica corresponda a los intentos amorosos de Bob. Movido por los celos y el deseo de venganza, Jack reta Bob a combatir en el Albert Hall.
El enemigo de las rubias
Art Direction
Londres. Un misterioso asesino en serie mata brutalmente a jóvenes mujeres rubias amparado por la niebla nocturna. Una neblinosa y siniestra noche, un joven que dice llamarse Jonathan Drew llega a la casa de huéspedes de los Bunting y alquila un cuarto.
The Rat
Art Direction
When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.