Lajos Biró
출생 : 1880-08-22, Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary [now Oradea, Romania]
사망 : 1948-09-09
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Lajos Bíró (born Lajos Blau) (22 August 1880 – 9 September 1948) was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote many films from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. He was born in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) and eventually moved to the United Kingdom where he worked as a scenario chief for London Film Productions run by Alexander Korda, collaborating on many screenplays with Arthur Wimperis. He died in London on 9 September 1948 of a heart attack. He is buried in the northern section of Hampstead Cemetery in north London.
In 1929, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Writing for The Last Command, but lost to Ben Hecht for Underworld, the only other nomination in this category.
Novel
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In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito. Re-used a great deal of stock footage from The Four Feathers (1939), including the entire final battle sequence.
Screenplay
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
Theatre Play
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
Theatre Play
2차 대전 중의 북아프리카. ‘사막의 여우’ 롬멜 장군이 지휘하는 악명 높은 독일 아프리카 군단에 패한 영국 탱크 부대. 홀로 살아남은 상병 존 브램블은 사막을 헤매다 파리드와 프랑스 여인 모슈가 있는 외딴 호텔에 다다른다. 얼마 후, 롬멜 장군의 부대가 호텔에 도착하고, 존은 살기 위해 이미 살해당한 호텔 직원 다보스 행세를 한다. 그런데 롬멜 장군과 대면한 존은 다보스가 독일 첩자였다는 것과 롬멜의 야심 찬 계획에 대해 알게 된다. 조셉 폰 스턴버그의 (1928)의 원안을 쓴 헝가리 출신 작가 라조 비로의 희곡을 바탕으로 한 전쟁 영화.
Scenario Writer
바그다드 왕국의 왕자 아메드는 자파라는 사악한 대신에게 왕좌를 빼앗기고 지하 감옥에 갇힌다. 장터에서 음식을 훔치다 붙잡힌 아부 역시 같은 지하 감옥에 갇히면서 둘은 서로 만나게 된다. 죽음을 눈앞에 둔 이 둘은 감옥을 탈출해 바스라 왕국에 이른다. 이 왕국의 공주와 사랑에 빠지게 된 아메드. 한편 자파는 바스라 왕국의 공주와 결혼하려 하고 장난감 수집광인 왕에게 날아다니는 말을 선물함으로써 그의 환심을 산다. 하지만 이미 아메드와 사랑에 빠진 공주의 마음을 사기란 쉽지 않은 일. 난관에 처한 자파는 마법을 걸어 아메드를 눈 먼 장님으로 만들고 아부를 개로 변하게 하는데..
Story
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
Story
Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.
Story
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Adaptation
Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the hospitality of Guhl's spacious palace. It's up to the loyal young Prince Azim (Sabu) to warn the troops of Guhl's treachery by tapping out a message on his drum.
Adaptation
이혼 전문 변호사 에버라드 로건(Everard Logan: 로렌스 올리비에 분)은 안개로 인하여 로얄 파크 호텔에 투숙하게 된다. 한편 그 호텔에서 열린 파티에 참석한 레슬리 스틸(Leslie Steele: 멀 오베론 분) 또한 안개로 인하여 집으로 돌아가지 못하고 호텔에서 머무르게 된다. 하지만 방은 이미 다 찼고 호텔 경영진은 파티 참석자들을 위해 투숙자들에게 방을 같이 쓰도록 부탁한다. 깐깐한 로건은 이를 응하지 않지만 레슬리는 그의 방으로 살금살금 들어가 그의 침대까지 차지한다. 침대에서 쫓겨난 로건은 거실에서 새우잠을 자게 되고 주객이 전도된 이 상황에 당황해 하지만 싫어 하는 기색은 보이지 않는다. 그건 바로 그녀에게서 사랑을 느끼게 된 것이다. 아침 식사를 하고 레슬리는 "잘 있어요, 레이디 X로부터"라는 메모만 남긴 채 떠나 버리고 로건은 그녀를 다시 만날 수 있길 바란다. 한편 로건을 찾은 미어 경은 자신의 부인이 어제 다른 남자와 로얄 파크 호텔에 투숙했다는 이유로 이혼을 하려 한다. 자초지정을 들은 로건은 미어 경의 부인이 어젯밤에 자기와 함께 있었던 레슬리라고 오해하게 된다. 하지만 미어 경이 이혼 할거라는 얘기에 다시 안도의 한숨을 내쉰다. 다시 만나게 된 레슬리와 로건. 레슬리는 로건이 자신을 미어 경의 부인으로 오해하고 있다는 걸 알게 되고 진짜 미어 경의 부인인 것처럼 행동하면서 로건을 당황스럽게 한다. 그러던 어느 날 진짜 미어 경의 부인이 로건의 사무실을 찾게 되고 레슬리와 미어 경 부인은 그곳에서 마주치게 되는데...
Screenplay
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It clearly is a trap, but nothing will keep the good old Pimpernel from carrying out his mission. He is up against the usual clods and dolts, after all.
Writer
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.
Screenplay
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
Screenplay
In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about growing opposition from the Huguenots in the south. The Cardinal also warns de Berault that dueling has been outlawed, and will henceforth be punishable by death. Gil, however, promptly disobeys the law and is indeed sentenced to death. The Cardinal offers to cancel the sentence if de Berault is able to capture the duke who is organizing plans for an uprising. Gil travels to the duke's castle and is allowed to stay as a guest, but the duke's wife and sister immediately suspect that he is a spy. He and his servant still make good progress, until he falls in love with the duke's sister, which complicates everything.
Script Editor
Robert Flaherty and Zoltán Korda shared best director honors at the Venice Film Festival for collaborating on this charming translation of Rudyard Kipling’s “Jungle Book” story “Toomai of the Elephants.” A harmonious mix of the two filmmakers’ styles, Flaherty's adeptness at ethnographic documentary meeting Korda's taste for grand adventure, ELEPHANT BOY also served as the breakthrough showcase for the thirteen-year-old Sabu, whose beaming performance as a young mahout leading the British on an expedition made him a major international star.
Writer
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
Adaptation
A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
Writer
주인공 스칼렛 핌퍼넬은 프랑스 혁명 당시 단두대로 끌려가는 귀족들을 구출해 영국으로 넘기는 정체불명의 인물이다. 로베스피에르는 스칼렛 핌퍼넬을 잡기 위해 그의 심복 쇼블랑을 영국에 파견한다. 쇼블랑은 지금은 멍청한 영국 귀족 퍼시 블레이크니의 부인이 된 배우 마르그리트를 협박해서 스칼렛 핌퍼넬의 정체를 알아내려 한다.
Continuity
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
Theatre Play
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
Story
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
Writer
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
Writer
Remake of the English movie Ghost Train (1931, Walter Forde). Seven people are stranded for a stormy night at a remote, unmanned railroad station past which, every midnight, steams the "ghost" of a train which wrecked there 20 years ago.
Story
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .
Scenario Writer
Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.
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Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
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A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....
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The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd. It is based on the play The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley. The film's art direction is by Walter Murton. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
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Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers (Lawrence Grant), but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera (Warner Baxter). Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother (Nance O'Neil) and former girlfriend,Stancia (Mary Doran), and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.
Dialogue
Charles Jackson, an American sea-captain and singing soldier-of-fortune, is arrested by the French Foreign Legion for running guns to the rebel forces in Morocco fighting against the rule of the French in north Africa. He is saved by Lili La Fleur, a singer/dance in a Morocco café and, through her, eventually becomes a hero to the Foreign Legion.
Scenario Writer
Charles Jackson, an American sea-captain and singing soldier-of-fortune, is arrested by the French Foreign Legion for running guns to the rebel forces in Morocco fighting against the rule of the French in north Africa. He is saved by Lili La Fleur, a singer/dance in a Morocco café and, through her, eventually becomes a hero to the Foreign Legion.
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In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the state coffers to the extreme. The monarch, who is afraid of people, also withdraws more and more into a dream world at his various castles. His brother is already in a psychiatric institute and Ludwig is also eventually put under the care of psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden. The king attempts to get out from under this guardianship at Starnberg lake…
Story
Billie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris in an exotic romance and hand-wringing drama set in two countries and the way-stations in between.
Writer
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
Writer
Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em, the Archduke finally meets a girl he can't leave, Hungarian lass Judith Peredy (Billie Dove). She resists his advances but can't hide the fact that she's in love with him. The Yellow Lily was the second of four cinematic collaborations between star Billie Dove and director Alexander Korda.
Story
영화는 1928년 할리우드의 스튜디오에서 시작한다. 러시아 출신의 유명감독은 러시아 혁명을 소재로 하는 영화를 찍기 위해서 배우를 찾던 도중, 과거 제정 러시아의 핵심 인물이었던 대공 알렉산더 장군(에밀 제닝스)을 발견하고는 깜짝 놀란다. 신경쇠약에 걸려 계속해서 몸을 떠는 그 노인의 시점을 통해서 영화는 1917년 러시아로 돌아간다. 그 당시 권력자로서 한가롭게 휴가를 즐기던 장군은 성난 군중들에 의해서 노예의 위치로 전락하고 심지어 사랑하는 여인에게서도 버림받게 된다. 그 사건의 결과로 장군은 그만 신경쇠약에 걸리게 되는데...
Writer
The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities.
Adaptation
The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities.
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Story
During World War I, an Austrian officer is trapped behind the Russian lines. He tries to sneak through to his own lines, but is forced to take refuge in a small hotel, where he is hidden by the establishment's chambermaid. The two fall in love, but a Russian general makes the hotel his headquarters and sets his sights on the maid. In addition, the Austrian must find out the identity of a spy who is feeding the Russians military information that could lead to the destruction of the Austrian army.
Theatre Play
Based on the 1922 play Der Legionër by Lajos Biró.
Novel
A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.
Theatre Play
Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt country girl who's been "transformed," Pygmalion style, by European duke Poltava.
Theatre Play
Film based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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Alexander Korda's early German adaptation of Mark Twain's historical fiction novel about two young boys who are born on the same day and identical in appearance but of very different origin: Edward the Prince of Wales son of Henry VIII and Tom Canty the son of an lowly pauper.
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