Roland Pertwee
Nacimiento : 1885-05-17, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Muerte : 1963-04-26
Writer
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.
Story
"Jack el Negro" es un barco cuyo capitán es un contrabandista que, harto de ser perseguido por la marina española, está deseando dejar su oficio. Un día, el barco recoge a un grupo de refugiados políticos cuyo navío ha naufragado. Entre los pasajeros está la bella Ingrid, que se enamora del capitán.
Writer
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
Writer
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on.
Writer
Biografía del famoso y controvertido compositor italiano Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840).
Screenplay
Durante la última mitad del siglo XIX el escritor Richard Darrell salva a Don Carlos de dos ladrones, éste le confía un valioso collar para que lo traslade a España. Richard abandona a su prometida, Oriana, y comienza el viaje. Durante el trayecto se encuentra con Wycroft, un cómplice del señor Francisc Castteldow, un aristócrata que pretende separar a Oriana de Richard. Éste es asaltado, robado y casi asesinado y, debido a este acontecimiento pierde la memoria. Richard acaba casándose con una muchacha gitana, Rosal, mientras Oriana, dándolo por muerto se casa con el cruel señor Francis.
Theatre Play
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.
Sir Hamish Nair
A story about three sisters and their very different marriages.
Writer
A story about three sisters and their very different marriages.
Screenplay
Una mujer vive marcada por un trauma de su infancia, en la que fue salvajemente atacada y violada. Esto la trastornará hasta el punto de llevar una doble vida en la que unas veces es una dama de la alta sociedad y otras una harapienta gitana. La película obtuvo un gran éxito entre el público inglés de la época, aunque su estreno en España fue muy posterior.
Writer
Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses occasionally as an American journalist and a Gestapo officer. He meets and falls in love with a Dutch woman who professes solidarity with the British, but matters become complicated and dangerous when it transpires that the woman's brother is in possession of the documents Dick Marlow needs, and is far less kindly disposed towards the British than his sister – or is she?
Captain (uncredited)
Cuenta la historia de siete mujeres británicas de clase alta que deciden ayudar durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Screenplay
Capt. Waverley
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
Screenplay
Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.
Scenario Writer
Europa, 1939. Alemania y Gran Bretaña se encuentran a punto de enfrentarse en una nueva guerra. El profesor Horatio Smith viaja con sus estudiantes a la Europa continental para participar en una excavación arqueológica, pero cuando sus alumnos descubran que lo que busca Smith es construir un camino que facilite la huida a los enemigos del nazismo, lo apoyarán con más ahínco. Sin embargo, el plan se complica cuando un estudiante introduzca en el grupo a una misteriosa mujer que resulta ser una espía de la Gestapo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Embassy Official - Sir George Smith
Europa, 1939. Alemania y Gran Bretaña se encuentran a punto de enfrentarse en una nueva guerra. El profesor Horatio Smith viaja con sus estudiantes a la Europa continental para participar en una excavación arqueológica, pero cuando sus alumnos descubran que lo que busca Smith es construir un camino que facilite la huida a los enemigos del nazismo, lo apoyarán con más ahínco. Sin embargo, el plan se complica cuando un estudiante introduzca en el grupo a una misteriosa mujer que resulta ser una espía de la Gestapo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Theatre Play
A film directed by Paul L. Stein.
Writer
A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a cocktail bar.
Screenplay
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Scenario Writer
Un comandante alemán de submarinos, el capitán Hardt, es enviado a la islas Órcadas con la misión de destruir la flota británica apostada en Scapa Flow. Allí encontrará la colaboración del matrimonio Blacklock.
Writer
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
Mr Hastings
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
Writer
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
Writer
Lee Sheridan, un joven americano viene a estudiar a la Universidad de Oxford, pero desde el primer momento cae mal al resto de estudiantes, por su actitud descarada. Tras varios encontronazos con los profesores y la mujer del librero local, se convertirá en un héroe cuando se una al equipo de remo, para batir al eterno enemigo: la Universidad de Cambridge.
Dialogue
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
Screenplay
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
Scenario Writer
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
Screenplay
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
Dialogue
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
Screenplay
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
Writer
Unhinged art dealer William Barton seeks revenge on a man who ruined his career years ago. He does so by attempting to frame the man's son for the theft of $2,500 from the safe in his gallery. However the son has an alibi in Barton's wife, with whom he is having an affair.
Theatre Play
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...
Dialogue
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...
Writer
El egiptólogo británico Profesor Morlant encuentra una joya mágica en la tumba de un ídolo oriental. Se supone que este talismán otorga inmortalidad a quienes están enterrados con él. Así que Morlant hace arreglos para que lo pongan en su tumba cuando muera. Y ¡ay de aquellos que podrían traicionarlo, porque el espíritu de Morlant surgirá para vengarse de sus traidores ...
Dialogue
Un coche cama francés que asiste con un ojo para las damas se engancha con una viuda adinerada y se casan. Lo que no sabe es que ella se casó con él porque quiere quedarse en Francia. Sobrevienen complicaciones.
Writer
A British crime thriller film directed by William C. McGann
Adaptation
A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
Dialogue
A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
Story
A British crime film directed by William C. McGann
Screenplay
A British crime film directed by William C. McGann
Writer
British comedy directed by John Daumery ...
Writer
Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.
Writer
Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country. The cast includes Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Kolker, Boris Karloff (in the small role of a secretary), Edmund Breon, Claude Allister and Luis Alberni.
Theatre Play
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.
Writer
A jilted aunt refuses to let her niece marry a violinist's nephew.