Maurice Ostrer

Nascimento : 1896-05-09, London, England, UK

Morte : 1975-12-03

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maurice Ostrer (1896-1975) was a British film executive. He was best known for overseeing the Gainsborough melodramas. He was head of production at Gainsborough Studios from 1943-46. He resigned from the studio in 1946 after a disagreement with J. Arthur Rank who had taken over the studio. He left the film industry and went to work in textiles.

Filmes

The Magic Bow
Executive Producer
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
Caravan
Executive Producer
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.
The Wicked Lady
Executive Producer
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
A Morta Apaixonada
Executive Producer
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
Waterloo Road
Executive Producer
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
2.000 Mulheres
Executive In Charge Of Production
During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.
Time Flies
Producer
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
Milhões Como Nós
Executive Producer
Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, and Anne Crawford, was written by Sidney Gilliat, and directed by Gilliat and Frank Launder. It was filmed at Gainsborough Studios. When Celia Crowson (Roc) is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life, and begins a relationship with a young airman.
The Young Mr. Pitt
Producer
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Back-Room Boy
Production Supervisor
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
Gestapo
Production Manager
Tchecoslováquia, março de 1939, na véspera da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Enquanto os invasores alemães ocupam Praga, o inventor Axel Bomasch consegue fugir e chegar à Inglaterra; mas aqueles que precisam colocar os seus conhecimentos ao serviço da máquina de guerra nazi, para levar a cabo os seus maléficos planos de destruição, não pararão em nada para o capturar…
Girl in the News
Production Manager
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.