John Howell

출생 : 1914-08-14, Hampstead, London, England, UK

사망 : 1993-01-01

참여 작품

Embassy
Production Design
A KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian defector being protected by the CIA.
Tales of Beatrix Potter
Art Direction
The Royal Ballet Company brings Squirrel Nutkin, Tom Thumb, Hunca Munca, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Jeremy Fisher, Pigling Bland, and Pigwig to the screen doing pirouettes and pas de deux in this filmed ballet production directed by Reginald Mills. The film more properly belongs, however, to choreographer Frederick Ashmore, composer John Lanchbery, and costume designer Rostislav Douboujinsky. This literal adaptation concerns the shy Beatrix Potter and how, when all of the toy animals in her room come to life, she emerges from her shell and begins to enjoy life. Sequences include a rowdy dance with Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca destroying a collection of plaster food, a midnight pas de deux between Pigling Bland and Pigwig, and a corps de ballet of dancing mice.
There's a Girl in My Soup
Art Direction
TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.
The Walking Stick
Production Design
A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.
미스 진 브로디의 전성기
Production Design
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
Art Direction
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him. While she is away, George converts her family home into a discotheque, when she returns, she threatens to send George to jail for fraud, cause she didn't give her approval. George needing some fast bucks, decides to turn to an old cohort of his, William Homer but Willy's a little short. George then decides to steal the plans to a new drill, Pamela's suitor, Dudley Heath is working on. But when George gets the mumps, he can't make it to the meeting place and refuses to give Willy the plans unless he gives him the cash first. And the buyers won't give unless they see the merchandise first.
007 카지노 로얄
Art Direction
원래 007 시리즈 5편이지만, 영화 007에는 포함하지 않는게 일반적이다. 작가 이안 플레밍은 자신의 데뷔작 '카지노 로얄'을 너무 아껴서 007의 영화화 판권을 넘길 때 이것만은 제외시켰다. 그러나 그가 죽은 후 유족들로부터 미국의 다른 제작자에게 권리가 넘겨졌고, 완전히 다른 엉뚱한 코미디 영화로 만들어졌다. 연출도 존 휴스턴을 비롯해서 5명에 이르고, 출연진도 우디앨런, 데이빗 니븐, 데보라 카, 오손웰즈, 윌리엄 홀덴, 장 폴 벨몽도 등 각국의 유명 배우들이 나온다. 내용은 엄청난 제작비에도 불구하고 전체적으로 말이 안된다. 경쾌한 멜로디의 테마곡 'Casino Royale'과 'The Look of Love'는 대중들의 인기를 얻었다.
하르툼 공방전
Art Direction
1821년 이집트는 수단을 침략. 영국의 힘을 빌어 통치하게 된다. 그러나 60년 후 영국인 장교 등이 지휘하는 1만이라고 하는 이집트 병사에 대해 사막의 사람을 모아 대항하는 남자가 있었다. 그들은 모하메드의 자손 마디라고 칭하고 광신적인 회교도 리더로 군림한 그는 수단의 도시 카슘을 포위하였다. 영국의 명예를 더럽혔다고 분노한 한편 수에즈운하마저 확보할 수 없으면 아프리카의 내란에는 관여할 수 없다고생각한 수상 그리도톤의 대응은 대영제국 지배하의 청나라나 아프리카제국에서 빛나는 전공을 지닌 영웅 고든장군을 비공식적으로 파견하고카슘에서 영국군과 이집트사람을 구출시키려고 한다. 고든은 카슘으로파견되고 마디 일당의 손에서 구해낼려고 애쓰나 운명은 고든에 대해 미소를 짓지 않는다.
침묵의 살인
Art Direction
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.
Where the Spies Are
Art Direction
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.
The Mouse on the Moon
Production Design
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.
Guns of Darkness
Art Direction
Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.
로빈슨 가족
Production Design
나폴레옹의 야심으로 전쟁의 소용돌이에 휩싸인 유럽 대륙을 피해 새로운 땅 뉴기니를 찾아 항해하던 스위스의 한 가족은 해적에 뒤쫓기던 중 폭풍 속에 배는 난파되고 일가족은 근처 무인도에 비상 상륙한다. 세 아들과 함께 무인도에 고립된 로빈슨 부부는 난파선에서 가축이며 살림살이 등 생활에 필요한 것들을 실어 내오고 야생동물을 피해 나무 위에 집을 짓는 등 로빈슨 크루소에 버금가는 감탄할만한 지혜들을 무궁무진 펼쳐 보인다. 얼마 후 로빈슨 부부는 두 아들에게 섬 주변을 탐색할 기회를 주고, 이 들은 어느 해변에서 할아버지 선장과 함께 해적에게 잡혀 있던 한 소년을 구출하고, 그 애가 남장 소녀, 로베르타임을 알게 되면서 섬을 가로질러 돌아가는 험난한 여정 끝에 집으로 돌아온다. 새로운 식구를 맞은 로빈슨 가족은 잠시 평화를 찾지만 두 형제는 로베르타의 사랑을 놓고 팽팽한 라이벌 관계에 놓이고, 가족들은 포로, 로베르타를 빼앗긴 해적들이 공격해 올 것에 대비해 각종 지략을 동원한 기발한 장애물들을 설치하고 무기를 만든다. 드디어 해적과의 결전의 날이 오고 철저히 준비한 로빈슨 가족의 장애물들이 차례로 효과를 발휘한다. 그러나 끈질기게 공격해 들어오는 해적들에게 당할 위기에 처하고 그 순간 로베르타의 할아버지인 선장이 이끄는 배가 포를 쏘며 출현하여 남은 해적들은 혼비백산 도망친다. 선장은 로빈슨 가족에게 유럽으로 돌아가던가 뉴기니로 데려다주겠다고 제안하지만 공부를 하기 위해 런던으로 떠나겠다는 둘째 아들만 제외하고 모두 진정한 행복을 가르쳐 준 이 섬에 그대로 남기를 원한다.
서드 맨 온 더 마운틴
Production Design
The thrilling, critically acclaimed account of Rudi Matt (James MacArthur), a young kitchen worker who is determined to conquer the Citadel -- the jagged, snowcapped peak that claimed his father's life.
Nor the Moon by Night
Art Direction
When Alice Lang flies out to Kenya to marry gamekeeper Andrew Miller she is met by his brother Rusty, who is initially opposed to the marriage. The two become attracted to each other, but when Andrew is attacked by a lion, Alice nurses him back to health. Now torn between affection and duty, she must decide which path to follow.
Orders to Kill
Art Direction
A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.
Manuela
Art Direction
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
Loser Takes All
Art Direction
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
보와니 분기점
Art Direction
인도 보와니 에서 태어나고 자란 여주인공 빅토리아 존스 의 운명과 정체성의 갈림길에 대한 이야기
Fast and Loose
Art Direction
An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
Malta Story
Art Direction
In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.
The Net
Art Direction
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned flight with himself at the controls. Conflict also arises when one of his fellow scientists, taking advantage of Heathley's lack of attention toward his wife, Lydia (Phyllis Calvert), makes some moves on her. Then there is the question of just who is the enemy agent on the project.
Happy Go Lovely
Art Direction
B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe visiting Edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting backers. Bruno meets several of the leading ladies of the show; through a misunderstanding he doesn't correct they think that he's a newspaper reporter. He falls in love with one of the women, who reciprocates; he grows more lively and friendly, to the surprise of his employees. After a series of mishaps and comic incidents comes a happy ending: a successful show and true love.
The Dancing Years
Art Direction
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
Private Angelo
Art Direction
Angelo has been drafted into the Italian Army in World War II. He does not like people shooting at him, so he tries all sorts of tricks to avoid being caught up in the action. However, events always seem to lead him back to the fighting.
The Guinea Pig
Art Direction
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
브라이튼 록
Art Direction
1947년 영국의 한 휴양도시 브라이튼을 배경으로 실제 갱단 두목의 이야 기를 그린 (브라이튼 룩)은 차가운 시선을 가진 갱스터영화의 고전이다. 특히 롤러코스터에서의 끔찍한 살인을 아무런 주관적인 감정을 넣지 않고그려내, 묘한 서스펜스를 느끼게 해준다. 그렇지만 더욱 놀라운 것은 이 두목이 어른이 아닌 어린 나이의 청소년이라는 점이다. 우리에게 (간디)로 익숙한 리처드 아텐보로는 양심이라고는 찾아 볼 수 없는 냉혈한 캐릭터의 어린 갱두목 핑키 역을 훌륭하게 소화해내 주목을 끌었다.데일리 메신서의 대표 키버는 카드를 숨겨두고 이것을 찾는 자에게 상금 을 주겠다고 말한다. 어린 갱 두목 핑키는 놀이 동산에서 카드를 가지고 있던 프레드를 무자비하게 살해한다. 그리고 이 카드를 스파이서에게 숨겨두라고 명령한다.