Basil Dearden

Basil Dearden

Nascimento : 1911-01-01, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England

Morte : 1971-03-23

História

Basil Dearden (born Basil Clive Dear; 1 January 1911 – 23 March 1971) was an English film director.

Perfil

Basil Dearden

Filmes

The Last Appointment!
Director
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes.
Missão: Monte Carlo
Director
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
The Persuaders!
Director
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
O Homem Que Não Era
Executive Producer
Ao voltar para casa, o executivo Harold Pelham (Roger Moore) sofre um terrível acidente de carro. Levado às pressas ao hospital, ele fica clinicamente morto por alguns minutos, mas logo retorna à vida. Após ser liberado, ele percebe que alguém está usando seu nome e que esse estranho compartilha sua casa, toma decisões nos seus negócios e infiltra-se em sua família. Apesar de todos os esforços para descobrir a identidade do intruso, Harold fracassa: o impostor possui uma personalidade volátil, agressiva e não perde tempo em deixar claro que planeja se livrar dele e assumir para sempre o seu lugar.
O Homem Que Não Era
Screenplay
Ao voltar para casa, o executivo Harold Pelham (Roger Moore) sofre um terrível acidente de carro. Levado às pressas ao hospital, ele fica clinicamente morto por alguns minutos, mas logo retorna à vida. Após ser liberado, ele percebe que alguém está usando seu nome e que esse estranho compartilha sua casa, toma decisões nos seus negócios e infiltra-se em sua família. Apesar de todos os esforços para descobrir a identidade do intruso, Harold fracassa: o impostor possui uma personalidade volátil, agressiva e não perde tempo em deixar claro que planeja se livrar dele e assumir para sempre o seu lugar.
O Homem Que Não Era
Director
Ao voltar para casa, o executivo Harold Pelham (Roger Moore) sofre um terrível acidente de carro. Levado às pressas ao hospital, ele fica clinicamente morto por alguns minutos, mas logo retorna à vida. Após ser liberado, ele percebe que alguém está usando seu nome e que esse estranho compartilha sua casa, toma decisões nos seus negócios e infiltra-se em sua família. Apesar de todos os esforços para descobrir a identidade do intruso, Harold fracassa: o impostor possui uma personalidade volátil, agressiva e não perde tempo em deixar claro que planeja se livrar dele e assumir para sempre o seu lugar.
O Sindicato do Crime
Director
Em busca de uma grande reportagem, uma jovem jornalista (Diana Rigg) põe em polvorosa uma organização de assassinos profissionais, envolvendo-se com o charmoso chefe da gangue (Oliver Reed).
Only When I Larf
Director
A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
Khartoum
Director
Depois que o exército egípcio, comandada por oficiais britânicos, é destruído em uma batalha no Sudão em 1880, o governo britânico está em um dilema. Ele não querem enviar uma força militar britânica para uma guerra estrangeira, mas eles têm o compromisso de proteger os egípcios em Cartum. Eles decidem pedir o general Charles "Chinês" Gordon, que era uma espécie de herói popular no Sudão por ter acabado com o comércio de escravos na área, para providenciar a evacuação. Gordon concorda, mas também decide defender a cidade contra as forças do Mahdi - O Esperado - e tenta forçar os britânicos a enviar tropas.
Oriente Contra Ocidente
Director
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
A Mulher de Palha
Director
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
A Place to Go
Director
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
Estranha Obsessão
Director
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
Life for Ruth
Director
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
Noite Insana
Director
Este filme, baseado em Othello, de William Shakespeare, está bem posicionado como um veículo para mostrar alguns dos melhores músicos de jazz da época, incluindo Dave Brubeck e Charles Mingus. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Meu Passado Me Condena
Director
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)
The Secret Partner
Director
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Man in the Moon
Director
William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need. They con William into thinking he will continue his guinea pig career by testing out some equipment for them before they send a group of astronauts to the moon.
Os Sete Cavalheiros do Diabo
Director
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Sapphire
Director
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the investigators wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
Desert Mice
Producer
A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble their way from army camp to camp.
Rockets Galore
Producer
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.
Violent Playground
Director
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
Davy
Producer
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.
The Smallest Show on Earth
Director
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.
Who Done It?
Director
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
The Ship That Died of Shame
Screenplay
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
The Ship That Died of Shame
Producer
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
The Ship That Died of Shame
Director
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
Out of the Clouds
Director
A day following workers at an airport
The Rainbow Jacket
Director
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.
Punhos Traiçoeiros
Director
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
Confio em Ti
Producer
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.
Confio em Ti
Screenplay
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.
Confio em Ti
Director
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.
The Gentle Gunman
Producer
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
The Gentle Gunman
Director
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
Pool of London
Director
Jewel thieves, murder and a manhunt swirl around a sailor (Bonar Colleano) off a cargo ship in London.
Cage of Gold
Director
A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiance, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame, the dashing but roguish former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan makes her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father can't offer him financial support. Two years later she - having been told that Glennan is dead - has married Kearn and borne him a son. But then Glennan suddenly reappears and begins to blackmail her.
A Lâmpada Azul
Director
A rotina diária de dois policiais de Londres é interrompida por um assassino. Seguimos as atividades diárias de dois Bobbies, policiais de Londres, o veterano George Dixon e o novato Andy Mitchell. Dois jovens 'Robin Hood', Tom Riley e Spud, planejam uma série de roubos usando Diana, a garota de Tom, como trabalhadora interna. Mas em seu segundo crime, um de nossos heróis policiais é baleado por Tom, desencadeando uma caçada por toda a cidade. O assassino é esperto, mas será que ele é mais esperto que todos?
Train of Events
Director
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
Train of Events
Screenplay
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Director
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
Frieda
Director
A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.
Corações Aflitos
Director
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.
Na Solidão da Noite
Director
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
They Came to a City
Writer
People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city
They Came to a City
Director
People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city
The Halfway House
Director
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
My Learned Friend
Director
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
The Bells Go Down
Director
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
Did You Ever See a Dream Talking
Director
Propaganda comedy promoting the benefits of saving for the war effort.
The Goose Steps Out
Director
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Director
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
Turned Out Nice Again
Associate Producer
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Pearson then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.
Spare a Copper
Associate Producer
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
Spare a Copper
Writer
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
Let George Do It!
Screenplay
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Now You're Talking
Script
Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets slip vital information about some overnight research on a captured enemy aircraft. This inevitably leads to this most important of secrets falling into the lap of the enemy.
Penny Paradise
Assistant Director
A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
This Man Is News
Writer
A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.