Alex Vetchinsky

Nascimento : 1904-11-09, London, England, UK

Morte : 1980-03-04

Filmes

A Maldição do Ouro
Production Design
O gerente de uma das minas de ouro mais importantes da África do Sul se une a um grupo de homens sem escrúpulos para fechar o lugar e, com isso, aumentar o preço do minérios com a redução da produção.
Jane Eyre
Art Direction
Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. While she is there, many strange things happen and eventually she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfeild and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light, and it will take all of her courage, love and understanding to triumph.
David Copperfield
Art Direction
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
O Demônio do Fogo
Art Direction
Embora a Inglaterra esteja no meio de um inverno congelante, a pequena ilha escocesa de Fara experimenta uma onda de calor que ultrapassa os 40 graus e sobe diariamente. Sem muito o que fazer, a jovem e linda Angela Roberts dá um jeito de esquentar ainda mais a situação enquanto um cientista misterioso recém chegado, o Dr. Godfrey Hanson, faz pesquisas com o solo e instala câmeras pela ilha. Quando indagado, Godfrey diz suspeitar que a onda de calor seja obra de alienígenas e tentará provar sua teoria e dar um fim a tudo aquilo juntamente com o médico local, o Dr. Vernon Stone.
Bonecas que Matam
Art Direction
British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
Névoas do Terror
Production Design
Sherlock Holmes e Dr. Watson se unem à caça de um assassino notório, Jack O Estripador.
This Is My Street
Art Direction
A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.
The Informers
Art Direction
When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.
Meu Passado Me Condena
Art Direction
Um advogado proeminente enfrenta um chantagista que ameaça homens gays com divulgação de seus atos homossexuais (que ainda eram ilegais). Mas ele mesmo é gay. Um verdadeiro pedido de reforma dos estatutos anti-sodomia da Inglaterra, este filme coloca Melville Farr, um advogado casado, contra um chantagista que tem fotos de Farr e um jovem gay no carro de Farr. O jovem é chantageado e se suicida. Após o suicídio, Farr localiza outros homens gays sendo extorquidos pelo mesmo chantagista. O bem-educado policial Detetive Inspetor Harris considera a lei de sodomia nada mais do que um auxílio a chantagistas, e ajuda Farr em enfrentar o blefe de seu chantagista. O filme, muito à frente de seu tempo, termina com Farr e sua esposa chegando a um acordo com sua homossexualidade depois da exposição pública que ele enfrenta no julgamento do chantagista. (e 18 - Estimado 18 Anos)
Lá Fora Ruge o Ódio
Art Direction
Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.
A História de Um Homem Mau
Art Direction
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
Carry On Nurse
Art Direction
Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!
Com jeito vai, Sargento
Art Direction
Fall in for the first ever film in the highly successful Carry On comedy series—now an acclaimed British institution. Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey are the prankish misfits who become the hilarious bane of Army Officers existence when he makes a bet he will turn them into ‘Star Squad’ Award soldiers—or bust!
Somente Deus Por Testemunha
Art Direction
Conta a história do navio RMS Titanic, o maior, mais veloz, mais luxuoso e mais seguro transatlântico do mundo, que teria como percurso sair de Southampton, na Inglaterra, e ir para Nova York, nos Estados Unidos. Mas após quatro noites navegando pelo oceano, o navio cruza tragicamente com um gigantesco iceberg, vitimando 1.500 passageiros, sendo que pouco mais de 700 sobreviveram.
Perigo nas Sombras
Art Direction
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
Robbery Under Arms
Art Direction
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.
Mulheres Fugitivas
Art Direction
In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
Passage Home
Art Direction
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.
The Black Knight
Art Direction
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight. In this new role, he is now able to help King Arthur when Saracens and Cornish men—disguised as Vikings -- plot to take over the country.
Hunted
Art Direction
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
Teia de Sabotagem
Set Decoration
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
Night Without Stars
Art Direction
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.
Waterfront Women
Production Design
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
Trágico Amanhecer
Art Direction
A tripulação de um submarino ficou presa no fundo do mar quando ele afundou. Como eles podem ser resgatados antes do ar acabar?
Loucuras do Coração
Art Direction
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
It's Hard to be Good
Art Direction
A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.
The Weaker Sex
Art Direction
A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.
Homem em Fuga
Art Direction
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
O Homem de Outubro
Art Direction
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
Hungry Hill
Art Direction
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
Beware of Pity
Production Design
A paraplegic mistakes a man's pity for love.
Don't Take It to Heart
Art Direction
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
Tawny Pipit
Art Direction
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
The Lamp Still Burns
Production Design
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
The Young Mr. Pitt
Art Direction
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Art Direction
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
The Ghost Train
Art Direction
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
Neutral Port
Art Direction
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Art Direction
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Gestapo
Art Direction
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
Art Direction
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.
Garotas Apimentadas
Art Direction
Uma garota de escola fugida cai entre as garotas do coro que planejam se casar com a nobreza.
Ask a Policeman
Settings
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
A Dama Oculta
Settings
Em um pequeno recanto da Europa os passageiros de um trem ficam retidos em virtude de uma nevasca e são obrigados a pernoitar em uma pequena estalagem. Lá uma rica jovem conhece uma velha governanta e ambas combinam de se encontrarem no dia seguinte no trem. Entretanto, logo após o início da viagem a governanta desaparece e ninguém, por motivos diversos, afirma ter visto a pessoa desaparecida. Ela persiste em suas investigações e acaba convencendo um musicólogo, com quem ela tinha se desentendido na véspera.
Bank Holiday
Set Decoration
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.
Doctor Syn
Settings
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
Jack of All Trades
Art Direction
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
All In!
Art Direction
Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.
O Homem Que Mudou de Alma
Art Direction
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable...
Tudor Rose
Art Direction
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
Where There's a Will
Art Direction
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
Foreign Affaires
Art Direction
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means - fair or foul!
The Phantom Light
Art Direction
Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him. Jim Pearce deliberately maroons himself on the rock along with Alice Bright. When the light is later smashed, Jim reveals that his brother’s ship is the wreckers’ latest target, while Alice is a detective sent to investigate.
Stormy Weather
Art Direction
Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but continually flirt with other people. Sir Duncan is appointed to the board of clothing retail chain. On his tour of inspection, he encounters a successful store run by the efficient Mr. Bullock. By contrast, a neighbouring shop is filled with unhelpful staff overseen by an incompetent and lazy manager, Raymond Penny, who is more interested in horseracing than running his shop. Craggs is unimpressed by Penny and summons him to a meeting in London. Both Bullock and his domineering wife travel up to London as well, fearing that Penny will tell Craggs malicious stories about them.
Boys Will Be Boys
Art Direction
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.
Things Are Looking Up
Art Direction
Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.
Aunt Sally
Art Direction
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".
Friday the Thirteenth
Art Direction
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
The Lucky Number
Art Direction
A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.
Falling for You
Art Direction
In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying an aristocrat. His rival gets to write the story as a consolation prize.
Marry Me
Art Direction
A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele
Love on Wheels
Art Direction
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
Jack's the Boy
Production Design
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.
The Faithful Heart
Production Design
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.
Lord Babs
Production Design
A steward inherits the estate of an earl. To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors.
Sunshine Susie
Art Direction
Sunshine Susie was a remake of the German film The Private Secretary, and retained many of the originals general characteristics. Renete Muller who starred in the original, was again cast as the country girl seeking fame and fortune in the big city. She takes a secretarial job at a bank, and sets about catching the heart of her boss, Herr Hasel (Jack Hulbert).
Michael and Mary
Production Design
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....
Symphony in Two Flats
Art Direction
A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife couldn't bear to tell him that he didn't. Complications ensue.
Balaclava
Art Direction
A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.