John Wilcox
출생 : 1905-05-07, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
사망 : 1979-05-31
약력
John Laurence Wilcox was a British cinematographer active from the early 1940's up to his death in 1979. During that period he worked on numerous films, either as DOP (Director of Photography), director of second camera units on large budget films, or simply as a cameraman.
In the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s he lensed several popular films, such as "Carve Her Name with Pride", "The Cockleshell Heroes", "Safari", "The Mouse That Roared" and "Summer Holiday". In the mid 1960s he struck up a good working relationship with horror director Freddie Francis, and together they did horror classics such as "The Skull", "Hysteria", "The Evil of Frankenstein", "The Deadly Bees", "The Ghoul" and "Legend of the Werewolf".
As director of second camera units he worked on films such as "The Third Man", "The Guns of Navarone", "Casino Royale" and "The Eagle Has Landed".
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Director Paul Morrissey applies a hefty dose of humor to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective story in this interpretation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Comedian Peter Cook takes on the role of brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, who's not so gifted here as he relegates much of the investigation of demonic dogs to his bumbling sidekick, Watson (Dudley Moore), while he spends time with his mother and searches for an assistant.
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Victor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family.
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제2차 세계대전, 영국의 처칠 수상 암살을 꾀했던 독일군 남자들의 모습을 그린 존 스터저스의 마지막 작품.
2차대전 말기 독일군 특수부대의 리들 대령(Colonel Max Radl: 로버트 듀발 분)은 처칠 영국 수상을 암살하라는 히틀러의 명령을 받는다. 리들은 전쟁 영웅인 폴란드 출신 공수부대장 스타이너(Colonel Kurt Steiner: 마이클 케인 분)를 대장으로 특공대를 조직 영국으로 파견한다. 또한 베를린에서 교수생활을 하던 아일랜드 독립주의자 데블린(Liam Devlin: 도날드 서덜랜드 분)도 이 작전에 참여한다.
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A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs off to Paris, where he develops a jealous, overprotective crush on a prostitute, leading him to attack her client, incurring a pursuit by a determined police surgeon.
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A former clergyman (Peter Cushing) in 1920s England tries to keep his cannibalistic son locked in the attic.
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Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula. But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.
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Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly.
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오페어 비자를 받아 영국에 온 네 명의 섹시한 젊은 외국 소녀들이 고용주, 주인집 가족, 그리고 만나는 거의 모든 사람들과 빠르게 친해진다. 오페어 - 외국 가정에 입주하여 아이 돌보기 등의 집안일을 하고 약간의 보수를 받으며 언어를 배우는, 보통 젊은 여성
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고물상을 경영하는 아버지 앨버트(Albert Steptoe: 윌프리드 브램벨 분)와 아들 해롤드(Harold Steptoe: 해리 H.코벳 분)는 하루도 조용할 날이 없다. 이번에는 아들 해롤드가 루그비클럽의 스트립 댄서인 지티와 결혼하기로 약속하면서 또 다시 소동이 일어난다. 결혼식장으로 출발하기 전 앨버트의 심술로 인해 결혼반지를 잃어버린 이들은 거름더미 속에서 반지를 찾아 온통 악취를 풍기며 결혼식을 치룬다. 식이 끝나고 신혼여행을 가게된 해롤드와 지타, 그 곁에는 고집세고 질투가 심한 앨버트가 따라 붙는다.
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이 영화는 1971년 제임스 클 라벨(James Clavell)이 감독 한 것으로, 30 년 전쟁 당시의 역사적인 드라마이다. 독일 남부의 종교 전쟁에서 도망친 용병군인과 교사는 우연히 전쟁에 닿지 않은 계곡을 찾아 평화롭게 살게 되는데...
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An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to fail, he can be eliminated at the push of a button!
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Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.
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Doctor Who and his companions are hurled into the future and make a horrifying discovery: the Daleks have conquered Earth! The metal fiends have devastated entire continents and turned the survivors into Robomen.
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Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were purchased by the crippled Mrs. Von Sturm, whose home is overcrowded with a doll collection. Her pale, wide-eyed, neurotic son is the prime suspect and the daughter of one of the victims discovers the shocking truth.
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A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband.
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An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.
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Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Doctor Who, his two grand-daughters, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet Skaro, where a peaceful race of Thals are under threat of nuclear attack from the planet's other inhabitants: the robotic mutant Daleks.
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An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent car accident. With only a photograph torn from a newspaper to guide him, and an unknown benefactor, he attempts to unravel what looks increasingly like a bizarre murder.
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Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?
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11살 때 자넷은 정신질환을 앓는 엄마가 아빠를 칼로 찔러죽이는 걸 목격한다. 기숙학교에 다니는 틴에이저가 된 자넷은 아직도 엄마가 나오는 악몽을 꾸는데, 엄마의 광기가 자신에게 유전되었을지도 모른다고 의심하고 있기 때문이다. 결국 학교를 떠나 집으로 돌아간 자넷. 맞아주는 건 충실한 하인들과 후견인 헨리 백스터가 고용한 간호사 그레이스. 집으로 돌아온 뒤에도 자넷은 계속 악몽에 시달리는데, 이번 꿈에 나오는 여자는 엄마가 아닌 생전 처음 보는 사람이다. 한 번도 본 적이 없는 사람이 꿈 속에서 도대체 뭘 하는 걸까?
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1960s musical showcasing Cliff Richard. Four bus mechanics working for London Transport strike up a deal with the company: they do up a one of the company's legendary red double decker buses and take it to southern Europe as a mobile hotel. If it succeeds, they will be put in charge of a whole fleet. While on the road in France they pick up three young British ladies whose car breaks down and offer to take them to their next singing job in Athens. They also pick up a stowaway, who hides the fact that she's a famous American pop star on the run, chased by the media and her parents.
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A king misses the butter on his slice of bread.
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Four teen-aged Teds are persuaded to form a rock group and undertake the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme to keep them out of trouble.
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General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, something always seems to get in the way of his bedding the breathtakingly lovely Ghislaine, a more-than-willing town local.
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John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
Additional Photography
독일군은 당시 중립을 지키고 있는 터키에 위협을 가해 전쟁에 끌어들이려 했다. 그들은 자신들의 힘을 과시하기 위한 장소로 터키에서 몇 킬로미터 밖에 떨어지지 않은 군사적인 가치도 없는 케로스라는 섬을 택한다. 독일 군대 중에서 최정예 부대가 출전할 준비를 끝내고 케로스의 영군 병사들은 대공세에 빠져나오지 못한다면 몰살당할 수 밖에 없는 상황이었다. 그러나 케로스로 가는 유일한 길은 그 근처에 있는 '나바론'이라는 섬의 두대의 거포가 막고 있었다. 최신 레이다 장비를 갖춘 두 대의 거포는 연합군의 어떠한 전함도 당할 수가 없었다.
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Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
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Lewis Gilbert's classic comedy drama portrays the antics of a British Army Searchlight Squad during World War II. Lieutenant Ogleby (Ian Carmichael) has his work cut out to keep his "legionnaires" at their post and not rampaging through the local countryside. The McGaffey brothers (Benny Hill and Tommy Steele) create havoc with their light-fingers and light-loving with the local girls, whilst Smithy (Johnny Briggs) pines for his sweetheart.
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After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
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A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
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유럽의 초소국 그랜드 펜윅. 수출품이라고는 '피놋 그랜드 펜윅'이라는 와인이 전부인 이 작은 나라가 미국에서 만든 유사품 와인 때문에 경제 상태가 어려워지자 미국에 대대적인 선전포고를 하려고 한다. 꾀 많은 마운트조이 수상(Prime Minister Count Mountjoy: 피터 셀러스 분)이 만든 이 계획은 선전포고를 한 후 재빨리 패배를 인정하여 대외원조를 받고 그 돈으로 나라 경제를 살리자는 것이었다. 그랜드 펜윅의 지배자 글로리아나 여공(Grand Duchess Gloriana XII: 피터 셀러스 분)은 처음에는 회의적이었지만 수상의 말에 넘어가 실수투성이인 탈리 배스콤(Tully Bascombe: 피터 셀러스 분)에게 군사 지휘를 맡기고 계획을 실행에 옮긴다. 하지만 구식 나무 배를 타고 맨해튼에 도착한 탈리 일행이 본 뉴욕은 황량함 그 자체. 공습 훈련 중이라 모두들 지하에서 대피 훈련을 하던 중이었다. 이들은 뉴욕 시내에서 길을 잃고 헤매던 중 원자 폭탄 제작자인 코킨스 박사(Professor Kokintz: 데이비드 코소프 분)와 그의 예쁜 딸, 헬렌(Helen Kokintz: 진 시버그 분)과 마주치게 되는데...
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In the mysterious jungle of India, Harry Black, a skilled hunter, hunts a dangerous tiger which attacked. This tiger has already claimed hundreds of victims. While recovering from his wounds will review the most important moments of his life.
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London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
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A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.
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Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.
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Jackie Lane sightsees in Portugal.
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During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
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John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight. In this new role, he is now able to help King Arthur when Saracens and Cornish men—disguised as Vikings -- plot to take over the country.
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Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.
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When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and-favour house at St. James's Palace, he's amazed to find a pretty Irish girl in his favorite armchair. Intrigued, he turns on the charm but, as she explains her situation, he finds himself unaccountably falling in love with this pretty interloper.
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When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
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윌렘스는 싱가폴에서 하딕이라는 사업가의 매니저로 일하고 있다. 하지만 사실 그는 배운 것이라고는 남의 것을 이용해 이득을 챙기는 것뿐인 야망에 찬 사기꾼이다. 영화는 하딕이 윌렘스의 계획을 눈치채고 그를 경찰에 넘기려 하면서 시작된다. 때마침 링가드 선장의 배가 항구에 도착한다. 링가드 선장은 갈 곳 없는 윌렘스를 키운, 이 지역에서 존경받고 인정받는 덕망높은 사람이다. 윌렘스는 자살을 가장, 항구를 떠나는 링가드의 배에 접근해 그의 배를 타고 자유를 찾아 떠난다. 배는 보잘것없는 한 원주민 부락에 도착한다. 이 마을은 링가드 선장덕분에 살기 좋아진 마을로 아직 문명의 혜택을 받지 못한 곳이다. 링가드 선장은 그 원주민 부락에 살고 있는 자신의 양녀 부부내외에게 윌렘스를 부탁하고 다시 항해를 떠난다. 윌렘스는 자신의 죄 때문에 싱가폴에 돌아 갈 수 없어 어쩔 수 없이 링가드선장이 주문대로 원주민 마을에 남는다. 하지만 링가드가 단조로운 비문명화된 세계에서 적용할 리가 없다. 그러던 중 윌렘스는 원주민 부락의 추장의 딸을 사랑하게 되고 원주민과 영국인과의 알력다툼에 끼여들게 된다. 이곳 원주민들은 발전에 장애가 되는 지형적인 조건을 개선하고 싶었지만 링가드 선장의 반대로 계획이 수포로 돌아가자 그들은 윌렘스의 존재를 이용해 그 계획을 실현해 보려고 한다.
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2차 대전 직후 미국의 소설가 홀리 마틴스는 친구 해리의 연락을 받고 빈에 도착한다. 그를 반긴 것은 해리가 교통사고로 죽었다는 소식. 홀리는 친구의 애인 안나를 만나고 해리가 가짜 페니실린을 밀매했다는 혐의로 연합군의 추적을 받아왔음을 알게 된다. 친구의 죽음을 의심하던 홀리 앞에 홀연히 나타나는 해리. 홀리는 가짜 페니실린으로 고통받는 사람들을 접하고 해리를 체포하려는 칼로웨이 소령에게 협조하기로 결심한다.
그레이엄 그린의 원작 소설을 영화로 만든 작품.
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A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
