William Rose
Nascimento : 1914-12-12,
Morte : 1987-02-10
História
William Rose was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA, and travelled to Canada at the outbreak of World War II, while the US was still neutral, in order to join up and fight the Nazis. This took him to Britain, where he decided to stay after the war.
He spent his demobilisation money on a course in screenwriting, and then became a writer of British and American comedies such as Ladykillers, Genevieve, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!, as well as more serious films such as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
He retired to Jersey, where he died in 1987 at the age of 72.
Screenplay
O professor G.H. Dorr tem um grande plano para assaltar um cassino. Ele aluga um quarto na casa de uma senhora, onde convoca seus comparsas para discutir o plano de ação. A situação se complica quando a senhora descobre o plano, o que faz com que os ladrões tenham que eliminá-la de qualquer maneira.
Interviewee
Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.
Screenplay
Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value.
Screenplay
Bombolini é um bêbado bastante inútil na pequena cidade italiana de Santa Vittoria nos últimos dias da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Quando chega a notícia de que o governo fascista se rendeu, ele sobe na torre de água para derrubar a bandeira. Depois que subiu fica com medo da altura e não consegue descer. Então alguém da multidão começa a gritar o seu nome para lhe dar confiança. O conselho fascista da cidade ouve isso e acredita que ele é o novo líder da cidade. Eles se rendem a ele e o transformam no novo prefeito. Ele assume o cargo e quando descobre que os alemães planejam ocupar sua cidade e tomar seu vinho (mais de um milhão de garrafas), ele cria um plano para esconder todas as garrafas.
Writer
Joey foi criada por seus pais para ter a mente aberta, mas a situação muda quando ela traz um noivo negro para casa. Embora decidida a se casar apesar de qualquer objeção, seu noivo quer a aprovação dos pais dela e dos seus também.
Screenplay
Durante a Guerra Fria, quando o capitão de um submarino russo chega muito perto da Ilha Gloucester em Massachusetts, para dar uma olhada na América, o submarino fica encalhado. Uma equipe de nove marinheiros comandados pelo Tenente Rozanov vai para terra em busca de um barco a motor para desencalhar o submarino e chega na casa de verão do escritor nova-iorquino Walt Whittaker, que está passando o fim de semana com sua família em Gloucester. Quando ele percebe que eles são russos, acredita que é uma invasão. Logo a notícia começa a se espalhar, levando a histeria e paranoia os habitantes da pequena cidade. Sem intenção hostil, um submarino soviético encalha ao largo de New England. Marinheiros são enviados em busca de um rebocador, mas muitos dos moradores da pequena cidade chegam a loucura com medo de uma invasão, arriscando começar a 3ª Guerra Mundial.
Writer
Story
Após um longo tempo na prisão, homem cai de carro num precipício. Antes de morrer, ele conta às pessoas que tentam socorrê-lo onde escondera uma grande fortuna. Inicia-se então uma louca corrida ao tesouro. Oscar de Efeitos Sonoros.
Screenplay
Após um longo tempo na prisão, homem cai de carro num precipício. Antes de morrer, ele conta às pessoas que tentam socorrê-lo onde escondera uma grande fortuna. Inicia-se então uma louca corrida ao tesouro. Oscar de Efeitos Sonoros.
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The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own ? The last comedy to be produced at Ealing Studios.
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Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.
Story
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
Screenplay
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
Story
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Screenplay
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Screenplay
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm, that his new furniture designs, are not in keeping with the firms image. he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family, and emigrate to Australia. but his problems are only just beginning.
Screenplay
The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old 'puffer' boat tricks an American tycoon into paying him to transport his personal cargo. When the tycoon learns of the trick, he attempts to track down the boat and remove his possessions.
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Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
Story
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
Adaptation
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.
Story
An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
Screenplay
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.
Screenplay
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.
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A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
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Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...