Bernard Vorhaus
Nascimento : 1904-12-25, New York City, New York, USA
Morte : 2000-11-23
História
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Bernard Vorhaus (25 December 1904 - 23 November 2000) was an American film director born in New York City.
The Harvard University graduate, in addition to directing thirty-two films, was also the mentor to future film director David Lean, some of whose work as a film editor early in his career was on Vorhaus pictures. He worked steadily as a screenwriter in Hollywood while in his 20s but wanted to direct movies. He eventually decided to move to England and began directing B-movies or quota quickies, most notably The Last Journey (1935). After success in England, Vorhaus moved back to the U.S. and began working at Republic Pictures again directing B-movies.
Vorhaus was blacklisted in 1951 at HUAC hearings. Vorhaus had already moved to Europe at that time and directed a few minor films while there. He finally returned to England and retired from the film business, founding a business specialising in house renovations.
Vorhaus had two children, Gwyn and David, an electronic music pioneer who worked under the name White Noise.
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Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.
Assistant Director
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.
Assistant Director
Em 1930, o jovem Gabrielle Van der Mal entra em um convento em sua Bélgica natal para se tornar uma freira. Quase imediatamente, ela tem dificuldade para se ajustar à vida de clausura, e seu votos de pobreza, castidade e obediência. Ela duvida a sua própria capacidade, mesmo quando ela faz seus votos perpétuos. Gabrielle, agora chamada de Irmã Luke, se destaca em seus estudos médicos e sonhos de servir no Congo Belga.
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Durante a invasão do exército de Napoleão à Rússia, a doce Natasha se apaixona pelo conde Pierre Bezukhov, mas este se vê à mercê de um casamento por obrigação com a voluptuosa Helene. Voltando do front, Andrei, amigo de Pierre, recupera a alegria de viver ao se apaixonar por Natasha. Baseado no clássico romance homônimo de Leon Tolstoy.
Assistant Director
No funeral de Maria Vargas, várias pessoas se lembram de quem ela era e o impacto que ela causou sobre eles. Harry Dawes era um não muito bem sucedido escritor/diretor quando ele e produtor de cinema Kirk Edwards descobriram ela em uma boate de segunda, onde ela trabalhava como dançarina de flamenco. Ele a convenceu a aceitar a chance de atuação e seu primeiro filme foi um enorme sucesso. O Relações Públicas Oscar Muldoon se lembra de quando Maria estava no tribunal apoiando seu pai, que foi acusado de assassinar sua mãe. Foi o testemunho de Maria que o livrou e ela foi uma estrela maior do que nunca. Alberto Bravano, um dos homens mais ricos da América do Sul, lança seu olhar sobre Maria e ela sai com ele - mais para irritar Edwards do que outra coisa - mas ele a trata mal. Quando ela conhece o Conde Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini ficam profundamente apaixonados. Eles se casam, mas eles não têm uma vida feliz.
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Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia's duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Soon after arrival, Renzo will get in a big trouble and he will be forced to choose between going to church for marriage or going to prison.
Assistant Director
A Princesa Anne embarca em uma turnê por diversas capitais europeias e que é altamente explorada pela imprensa. Quando ela e sua comitiva real chegam em Roma, ela começa a se rebelar contra o seu horário extremamente regrado. Uma noite Anne dá uma escapulida de seu quarto, pula na traseira de um caminhão de entregas e escapa seu luxuoso confinamento. No entanto, um sedativo que ela foi forçada a tomar mais cedo começa a fazer efeito, e logo a princesa está prestes a dormir em um banco público. Ela é encontrada por Joe Bradley, um repórter de um jornal americano correspondente em Roma. Ele a leva até o seu apartamento. Na manhã seguinte, Joe corre para cobrir a conferência de imprensa da princesa Anne, sem saber que ela está dormindo em seu sofá. Na hora em que ele percebe a sua boa sorte, Joe promete ao seu editor uma entrevista exclusiva com a princesa.
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A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.
Screenplay
Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates. Oblivious to the sadistic treatment of the girls by the matrons, it takes a rebellious girl named Loretta to open his eyes. Assisted by a female staff member, Jason finally gets proof of the abuse and threatens the head of the school with exposure unless he is given full rein to run things.
Story
Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates. Oblivious to the sadistic treatment of the girls by the matrons, it takes a rebellious girl named Loretta to open his eyes. Assisted by a female staff member, Jason finally gets proof of the abuse and threatens the head of the school with exposure unless he is given full rein to run things.
Director
Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates. Oblivious to the sadistic treatment of the girls by the matrons, it takes a rebellious girl named Loretta to open his eyes. Assisted by a female staff member, Jason finally gets proof of the abuse and threatens the head of the school with exposure unless he is given full rein to run things.
Director
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
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A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.
Director
A farm girl has a romance with a ski instructor.
Director
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic training film.
Director
Joe Instructor, an Army Air Forces flight instructor, visits Pilot Heaven and has a discussion with Saint Peter about the unacceptable number of pilots who have died and gone to heaven without ever getting into combat, all as a result of haphazard or inattentive flying. Joe points out several pilots as examples and tells Saint Peter just what they did wrong that landed them in Pilot Heaven.
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Military training film on the characteristics, capabilities, weaknesses, and recognition of the World War II Japanese fighter aircraft known as the Zero.
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Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich, suave young Broadwayite, falls in love with Ann and aids her in her fight against Baldwin.
Director
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Director
Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P. Cadwallader Jones. The publisher of a tony fashion magazine is murdered, requiring Jones to sift through a colorful array of suspects. He is helped (?) along by snoopy girl reporter Terry Parker (Virginia Gilmore), who by default is the brightest character in the picture.
Director
Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new life, but one of the real criminals shows up to claim the loot which he believes Smith has.
Director
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Guy is still married to Sybil Barton, an unscrupulous gold-digger who left him twelve years earlier. She demands that Guy give her $250,000 for his freedom.- Written by Les Adams
Associate Producer
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
Director
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
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A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
Director
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
Director
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
Director
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
Director
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
Director
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
Director
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Director
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Director
British drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus.
Director
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
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Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.
Director
Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.
Director
Derwent dreams up an unbreakable alibi for a murder. Once the crime is attempted, it then falls to Pember and Brace of Scotland Yard to sort things out.
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When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.
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A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Director
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.
Producer
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
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A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
Director
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
Director
'Lady Violet and Harry Newman are engaged. Corry, a jealous rival, employs Mabell, a night-club dancer, to make love to Harry when drunk and demand money from Harry's father for letters she has written to the son.' (Kinematograph Weekly)
Director
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.
Line Producer
A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by a Viennese woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege. This film was released as a German version and English Version known as "The City of Song". Brigitte Helm once portrays a beautiful femme fatale who displays her affection and lust for her tourist guide which is paralleled with the main bodied theme of the early romanticist songs played throughout.
Writer
No Other Woman
Adaptation
Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident. When Phoebe boards a luxury yacht and is wooed by the captain, Sam comes aboard as a woman and tries to seduce the captain (in fact, a liquor smuggler), away from his wife.
