Freddie Young

Freddie Young

Nascimento : 1902-10-09, London, England, UK

Morte : 1998-12-01

História

Freddie Young (9 October 1902 – 1 December 1998) was a British cinematographer. He is probably best known for his work on David Lean's films Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Ryan's Daughter (1970), all three of which won him Academy Awards for Best Cinematography.

Perfil

Freddie Young

Filmes

The Making of 'Lawrence of Arabia'
Self
One-hour making of documentary from 2000, not to be confused with the 2003 film.
Arthur's Hallowed Ground
Director
Arthur is the groundsman. He's a perfectionist who has lovingly tended the cricket pitch for 45 years. Now he is given a new assistant.
A Espada do Valente
Director of Photography
Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle.
Richard's Things
Director of Photography
Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.
Ladrão por Excelência
Director of Photography
A romantic comedy with action and suspense. Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.
A Herdeira
Director of Photography
Sam Roffe, presidente de uma empresa farmacêutica multinacional, é morto enquanto praticava alpinismo. No início acham que é um acidente, mas depois o Inspetor Max Hornung deduz que Roffe foi assassinado. A filha de Sam, Elizabeth, assume o controle da empresa, e enquanto viaja através da Europa, ela logo se torna um alvo também. A suspeita recai sobre os primos Roffe, todos eles querem lançar na Bolsa ações da empresa e vender com um lucro enorme. Uma vez que isto vai contra a vontade do pai, Elizabeth rejeita seus conselhos e decide manter a empresa nas mãos da família. Enquanto o Inspetor Hornung investiga a fundo os primos, mais tentativas são feitas contra a vida de Elizabeth. Na esperança de revelar o culpado, Hormung é capaz de conectar essas tentativas a uma série de assassinatos de prostitutas, que são gravados em snuff filmes.
Ike
Director of Photography
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
Stevie
Director of Photography
For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her days engaged in tedious housework, crafting verse and conversing with her aunt. But while her body may be committed to drudgery, Stevie's mind is constantly trying to break free, which causes her to rail against religion and middle-class values, and prevents her from finding happiness with a man interested in her.
O Homem da Máscara de Ferro
Director of Photography
Clássico de Alexandre Dumas sobre os irmãos gêmeos (um bom e o outro mau) herdeiros do trono francês: O homem prisioneiro sob uma máscara de ferro e seu afetado e elegante irmão gêmeo, o Rei Louis XIV. O homem fechado sob a máscara é Phillipe, considerado morto, irmão gêmeo do Rei, considerado herdeiro por direito ao trono, era mantido na obscuridade por motivos políticos. Seu destino é assumir o trono no lugar do irmão, Louis, que é manipulado por Fouquet. O capitão dos mosqueteiros, D´Artagnam, e Colbert, ministro do Rei para assuntos domésticos, planejam restaurar a desejada autonomia e prosperidade do reino ao substituir Phillipe pelo Rei. O plano tem sucesso e Phillipe assume o trono enquanto seu irmão é condenado na máscara de ferro.
O Pássaro Azul
Director of Photography
Duas crianças camponesas, Mytyl e seu irmão Tyltyl, embarcam na busca pelo pássaro azul da felicidade da fada Berylune. Em sua jornada, eles têm a companhia da presença humanizada de um Cachorro, um Gato, Luz e Fogo e outras entidades.
Permissão Para Matar
Director of Photography
An unsavory intelligence agent (Dirk Bogarde) plots the downfall of a Third World political leader (Bekim Fehmiu).
Sementes de Tamarindo
Director of Photography
Durante suas ferias no Caribe, uma funcionária pública britânica se apaixona por um agente russo.
Luther
Director of Photography
One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.
Great Expectations
Director of Photography
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
The Asphyx
Director of Photography
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
Nicholas e Alexandra
Director of Photography
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
David Lean: A Self Portrait
Self
A television documentary on the life and career of British film director David Lean. Scenes of Lean directing are intercut with personal interviews in which the director explains his methods, the beginnings of his career, and his relationships with actors and actresses.
A Filha de Ryan
Director of Photography
An Irish lass is branded a traitor when she falls for a British soldier.
A Batalha da Grã-Bretanha
Director of Photography
A mais extraordinária batalha aérea da história, transformada num clássico filme de guerra. Em 1940, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, a RAF - Real Força Aérea britânica entra numa luta desesperada contra a Luftwaffe para impedir uma possível invasão das forças alemãs ao território inglês. Os soldados se engajam numa luta aérea pelo controle dos céus, e o que está em jogo é a sobrevivência da Inglaterra.
Sinful Davey
Director of Photography
Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This includes breaking a man out of Stirling jail, holding up the stagecoach, and robbing the Duke of Argyll, among other feats. Unfortunately, he is handicapped by the fact that his childhood playmate Annie is equally determined to track him down and save his soul...
Com 007 Só Se Vive Duas Vezes
Director of Photography
Durante uma missão de rotina no espaço, uma nave americana desaparece misteriosamente da sua órbita. Os americanos suspeitam dos soviéticos e pensam em uma retaliação. No entanto, os ingleses se mantêm mais cautelosos, após existirem possibilidades da nave ter pousado perto do Mar do Japão. Assim, James Bond (Sean Connery) vai investigar o caso, mas quando os soviéticos perdem uma espaçonave nas mesmas circunstâncias, Bond tem poucos dias para resolver esta missão e evitar a Terceira Guerra Mundial.
Chamada para um Morto
Director of Photography
O MI5 recebe uma carta datilografada anônima acusando Samuel Fennan do Foreign Office de ser comunista durante sua juventude na Universidade de Oxford. Depois do agente Charles Dobbs ter uma conversa amigável com Fennan o homem comete suicídio. Foi surpreendente porque a conversa durante a caminhada no parque foi muito amável. Altos funcionários querem a coisa toda varrida para debaixo do tapete e ficarão felizes em encerrar como um suicídio. Mas Dobbs não está com a mesma certeza pois há uma série de inconsistências que simplesmente não podem ser explicadas. Dobbs também está tendo problemas em casa com sua esposa, a quem muito ama, que vem tendo casos com muita frequência. Ele tem também o prazer de rever o velho amigo Dieter Frey, que ele recrutou depois da guerra para o serviço de espionagem, o MI6. Com a ajuda de um colega e um policial aposentado, Dobbs tenta juntar as peças para descobrir quem é o espião e quem de fato assassinou Fennan.
Doutor Jivago
Director of Photography
Ambientado antes e durante a Revolução Bolchevique na Rússia, conheça a história do doutor Yury Zhivago, que em plena guerra se viu apaixonado pela bela Lara Antipova, o amor impossível que move toda a história. Baseado na obra de Boris Pasternak, vencedor de 5 Oscar, incluindo Fotografia e Roteiro Adaptado.
Lord Jim
Director of Photography
James Burke (Peter O'Toole) é o primeiro oficial de um navio a vapor que durante um furacão, covardemente abandona o navio deixando seus passageiros para morrer afogados. Desonrado, Lord Jim procura uma forma de consertar seu erro - não somente perante os olhos da comissão da marinha inglesa, como também para si próprio. Assim, ele recebe a dura missão de entregar um carregamento de dinamite para uma tribo de nativos em algum lugar inexplorado do oriente e acaba se unindo aos nativos em sua luta contra O General (Eli Wallach), um brutal e rude opressor. Em sua jornada de aventuras, ele se encontra com Brown (James Mason), um pirata educado e cavalheiro que tem um plano misterioso o qual irá colocá-lo num confronto com seu verdadeiro destino. Agora, Lord Jim terá que aprender a diferença entre um herói e um covarde, uma verdade que é impiedosa e sem fuga.
The 7th Dawn
Director of Photography
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Macbeth
Director of Photography
Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a different supporting cast.
Lawrence da Arábia
Director of Photography
Graças ao seu conhecimento dos beduínos, o oficial britânico T.E. Lawrence é enviado à Arábia para encontrar o príncipe Faisal e servir de ligação entre árabes e ingleses na luta contra os turcos. Com a ajuda do nativo xerife Ali, Lawrence se rebela contra as ordens de seus superiores e enfrenta uma jornada através do deserto para atacar um porto turco bem protegido.
Fruto de Verão
Director of Photography
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
Hand in Hand
Director of Photography
Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
Gorgo
Director of Photography
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
Salomão e a Rainha de Sabá
Director of Photography
Depois de se tornar rei do antigo Israel, Salomão enfrenta ameaças vindas de seu irmão ciumento e despossuído Adonias, o faraó egípcio e a intrigante rainha de Sabá. Pouco antes de sua morte no antigo Israel, o rei Davi teve uma visão de Deus dizendo que seu filho mais novo, Salomão, deveria sucedê-lo como rei. Seu outro filho, Adonias, é infeliz e pretende assumir o trono. Enquanto isso, o Faraó egípcio concorda em ceder um porto do Mar Vermelho para a rainha de Sabá, se ela encontrar uma maneira de destruir Salomão, cuja sabedoria e governo benevolente são vistos como uma ameaça para os monarcas mais tirânicos da região. A Rainha de Sabá, o Faraó, Adonias, os líderes das Doze Tribos e seu próprio Deus dificultam a vida de Salomão, que é tentado pela Rainha de Sabá a se desviar de seu caminho.
A Morada da Sexta Felicidade
Director of Photography
Toda sua vida a inglesa Gladys Aylward sabia que a China era o lugar onde ela pertencia. Não qualificada para ser enviado para lá como missionária, Gladys trabalha como doméstica para ganhar o dinheiro necessário para custear a viagem à uma pobre aldeia remota chinesa. Lá, ela finalmente vive uma vida plena e feliz. tocando uma pousada, atuando como "Inspetora de Pés", aconselhando o mandarim local e até mesmo ganhando o coração do mestiço Capitão Lin Nan. Mas Gladys descobre seu verdadeiro destino, quando o país é invadido pelo Japão e as crianças chinesas precisam dela para salvarem suas vidas. Baseado em uma história verdadeira.
Indiscreta
Director of Photography
Philip (Cary Grant), um americano rico, e uma famosa atriz, Anne (Ingrid Bergman), se encontram de maneira inusitada. Anne insiste em conquistá-lo, como faz com todos os homens. Embora Philip resista, acaba fisgado, e ela também não consegue resistir ao charme eletrizante do galã. Quando Cary Grant e Ingrid Bergman se reuniram novamente em Indiscreta - mais de uma década depois de Interlúdio, de Hitchcock - um grande sucesso já era previsto. Essa dupla de astros mais o grande diretor Stanley Donen (Charada) transformam um simples romance, num clássico de alto nível. "Um filme inteligente, agradável, um belo conto sobre a acidentada estrada do amor" (Variety).
Um Crime Por Dia
Director of Photography
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
I Accuse!
Director of Photography
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
Van Gogh: Darkness into Light
Himself
Ilha nos Trópicos
Director of Photography
On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner's son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the contentious election weren't enough, there are plenty of scandals to go around: Boyeur has a secret white lover and Fleury's wife, Sylvia, is also having an affair. And then, of course, there's the small matter of a recently murdered aristocrat.
Dois Amores e uma Cabana
Director of Photography
Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.
Mombasa, a Selva Negra
Director of Photography
Um americano viaja para o leste da África, buscando descobrir como seu irmão morreu.
Sede de Viver
Director of Photography
O filme retrata fielmente a vida do mestre da pintura: Van Gogh. Dividido entre a genialidade e sua mente atormentada, Van Gogh é interpretado pelo aclamado ator Kirk Douglas. Sede de Viver captura todo o êxtase da arte e a agonia da vida de um gênio da pintura.
Convite à Dança
Director of Photography
Three completely different stories are told through dance.
A Encruzilhada dos Destinos
Director of Photography
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
Atraiçoado
Director of Photography
Segunda Guerra Mundial. O official aliado Pieter Deventer (Clark Gable) acaba se envolvendo com a bela Carla Van Oven (Lana Turner), uma suspeita de traição.
A Última Vez Que Vi Paris
Camera Operator
Charles Wills (Van Johnson) é um escritor que volta a Paris para reencontrar a filha, criada pela cunhada, Marion Matine (Donna Reed). Lá ele relembra Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor), o grande amor da sua vida, que ele conheceu em Paris quando a 2ª Guerra Mundial terminou na Europa. Charles recorda que trabalhava como jornalista no "Star and Stripes", tendo logo se apaixonado por Helen e em pouco tempo estavam casados. Porém ele recebia um pequeno salário, assim dedicou suas noites para escrever um romance, que foi rejeitado por vários editores. Quando ele tinha perdido todo o ânimo surge uma boa notícia: poços de petróleo no Texas, que lhe foram dados pelo sogro, James Ellswirth (Walter Pidgeon), quase como uma brincadeira, pois nada produziram e de repente se tornaram bem produtivos.
Os Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda
Director of Photography
O recém coroado rei da Inglaterra, Arthur Pendragon dedica seu reinado e a irmandade dos Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda aos ideais de paz e justiça. Apoiando o Rei Arthur em seus objetivos está a sua amada Rainha Guinevere, o nobre Sir Lancelot e o misterioso Merlin. Lancelot e Guinevere estão divididos entre a secreta paixão que os envolve e a lealdade e respeito que nutrem por Arthur. Mas essa traição não é nada se comparada ao ódio que a feiticeira Morgana, meia irmã de Arthur, e seu filho Mordred sentem pelo Rei de Camelot.
Mogambo
Director of Photography
Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.
Time Bomb
Director of Photography
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.
Ivanhoé, o Vingador do Rei
Director of Photography
O leal cavaleiro britânico Wilfred de Ivanhoe sai em uma missão para libertar o rei sequestrado da Inglaterra, Ricardo Coração de Leão, nesta aventura empolgante. O bravo Ivanhoe deve, eventualmente, enfrentar o perverso príncipe John e o feroz guerreiro normando Brian de Bois-Guilbert, além das afeições das lindas donzelas Rowena e Rebecca.
Calling Bulldog Drummond
Director of Photography
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
A Ilha do Tesouro
Director of Photography
Após receber o mapa do tesouro escondido pelo capitão Flint, o garoto Jim Hawkins embarca num barco pirata rumo a uma ilha do Caribe. E vive uma incrível quando, entre outros perigos, tem de encarar velhos companheiros do bucaneiro como o nada simpático Long John Silver. Aventura, produção dos estúdios Disney, baseada no clássico da literatura de Robert Louis Stevenson.
Traidor
Director of Photography
Jovem mulher entra em crise quando percebe que seu marido, um oficial do Exército britânico, está colaborando com os comunistas.
Meu Filho
Director of Photography
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
The Winslow Boy
Director of Photography
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
Homem em Fuga
Director of Photography
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
While I Live
Director of Photography
In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition, falls to her death from the cliffs of Cornwall. 25 years on, Olwen has gained posthumous fame as a result of her tragic death and her haunting uncompleted composition 'The Dream of Olwen'. Her reclusive sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), who has never come to terms with Olwen's death, becomes convinced that Olwen has returned when she meets an amnesiac woman who looks like her.
So Well Remembered
Director of Photography
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
Bedelia
Director of Photography
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
César e Cleópatra
Director of Photography
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
The Young Mr. Pitt
Director of Photography
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Invasão de Bárbaros
Director of Photography
Uma tripulação de U-boat da Segunda Guerra Mundial está encalhada no norte do Canadá. Para evitar o aprisionamento, eles devem ir até a fronteira e entrar nos EUA que ainda estão neutros.
Busman's Honeymoon
Director of Photography
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
Contraband
Director of Photography
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
Nurse Edith Cavell
Director of Photography
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Adeus, Sr. Chips
Director of Photography
O filme, baseado no romande de James Hilton, conta a história do Sr. Chipping (Robert Donnar), um respeitado professor de latim, obcecado pelo trabalho. Um dia, este homem com uma vida muito discreta, conhece e se apaixona pela extrovertida Katherine (Greer Garson). Sua convivência com a moça o torna mais amigável e ele ganha a confiança de seus alunos. Tudo parecia bem, mas uma tragédia acontece e muda sua vida novamente.
Sixty Glorious Years
Director of Photography
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
A Rainha Vitória
Director of Photography
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Limelight
Director of Photography
A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom.
A Dançarina da Rua
Director of Photography
Marius Andreani é um diplomata italiano culto. Enquanto está em Londres em negócios, Marius conhece casualmente a animadora de rua Jacqueline. É amor à primeira vista, mas herói e heroína devem passar por uma série vertiginosa de bloqueios de estradas e mal-entendidos antes do clima. Enquanto isso, Jacqueline sobe ao topo do sucesso do show-business, nunca sonhando (até ao fim, pelo menos) que é toda a obra secreta do fiel Marius.
When Knights Were Bold
Director of Photography
Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives to be frozen stuffed shirts... except lovely cousin Rowena, who is mad about knighthood and chivalry. Struck in the head by a falling suit of armor, Guy dreams he and Rowena are back in 1400, as the unabashed farce continues...
The Three Maxims
Director of Photography
The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie Banks). After spending most of their careers in the small time, the threesome finally get their big chance in Paris, at which point Mac realizes he's in love with Pat.
Come Out of the Pantry
Director of Photography
A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.
The Queen's Affair
Director of Photography
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
Bitter Sweet
Director of Photography
A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man.....
The King's Cup
Director of Photography
'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)
The Little Damozel
Director of Photography
A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
It's a King
Director of Photography
'Insurance agent poses as royal double and saves him from anarchists.' (British Film Catalogue)
Thark
Director of Photography
Mrs Todd is aggrieved at finding that the country house she has bought is evidently haunted. Sir Hector Benbow and his nephew, on behalf of the previous owner, set out to demonstrate that there is no ghost.
The Love Contract
Director of Photography
A young woman becomes the driver of a wealthy stockbroker who lost her family’s savings.
The Mayor's Nest
Director of Photography
A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
Good Night, Vienna
Director of Photography
Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again
A Night Like This
Director of Photography
Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
The Blue Danube
Director of Photography
In a Hungarian gypsy encampment, carefree Sandor lives with his beautiful sweetheart Yutka. Into their lives rides a blonde countess, with whom Sandor becomes infatuated. Yutka soon flees from her faithless lover. Sandor roams the country, searching for his lost love, but finds her too late. she now wears furs and has her own aristocratic love. Sandor returns heartbroken to his Romany encampment.
Mischief
Director of Photography
When financier Reginald Bingham leaves on a business trip to Paris, normally devoted wife Eleanor leaves for a cottage with a secret boy friend. The couple are followed by friends of her husband, who attempt to hinder the affair. However, Reginald is also tempted by a fling with an old friend in Paris.
Carnival
Director of Photography
During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery..
Up for the Cup
Director of Photography
A Yorkshireman comes to London to watch the FA Cup final and loses his money and tickets, leading to a frantic search to recover them...
The Chance of a Night Time
Director of Photography
Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.
Tilly of Bloomsbury
Director of Photography
A young woman falls in love with an aristocrat and tries to convince his parents that she is herself wealthy.
The Speckled Band
Director of Photography
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
The Sport of Kings
Director of Photography
Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
Tons of Money
Director of Photography
A debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors.
Plunder
Director of Photography
A comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls.
A Warm Corner
Director of Photography
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
Canaries Sometimes Sing
Director of Photography
Over the course of their marriage, Geoffrey Lymes has become increasingly exasperated by the shallowness and superficiality of his wife Anne. He despairs of her ridiculous affectations, social-climbing aspirations and constant embarrassing attempts in company to show herself as an elegant, cultured sophisticate. He feels trapped in a relationship where, as he observes, a wife "does nothing to entitle her husband to divorce her, but a thousand things that entitle him to murder her".
The Loves of Robert Burns
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Biography of the ploughboy poet.
The W Plan
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A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
The Bondman
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A British silent adventure directed by Herbert Wilcox
The Tonic
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The family of the very wealthy but infirm Great Aunt Louisa await her untimely demise in the hopes of inheriting her great fortune.
Daydreams
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A young cleaning woman in a boarding-house relieves the drudgery of her job by daydreaming that a foreign student at the house, who she believes is interested in her, is actually a wealthy nobleman who sweeps her off on a romantic journey.