John Stoll

Nascimento : 1913-12-13, London, England, UK

Morte : 1990-06-25

Filmes

Shirley Valentine
Production Design
Dona-de-casa inglesa sente-se entediada com a rotina envolvendo os filhos e o marido. Resolve aceitar o convite de uma amiga e parte para uma excursão pelas ilhas Gregas. Lá ela desfruta da paisagem, da liberdade e conhece um novo amor.
Os Doze Condenados - Missão Mortal
Production Design
O general Worden (Ernest Borgnine) ordena ao major Wright (Telly Savalas) que selecione e treine 12 condenados à morte ou sentenças longas para uma missão suicida, em que os participantes serão perdoados se a concluírem. A missão consiste em destruir o estoque de um gás paralisante e mortal, que os nazistas esconderam em um mosteiro em Saint Michel, na França. O local não pode ser bombardeado, pois lá também se encontram 6 cientistas, que vieram de países invadidos pelos alemães. Se destruir o gás e resgatar os cientistas era difícil tudo fica bem mais complicado ao saberem que houve algum tipo de vazamento, que provocou a morte de um agente inglês e do líder da resistência local. Em razão disto o espaço aéreo está sendo mais vigiado, o que obriga Wright e seus comandados a chegarem em Saint Michel por outro caminho.
The Corsican Brothers
Production Design
In the 18th century were born two siamese brothers on Corsica who paradoxically carry different feelings of hate and reconciliation in their blood.
O Escarlate e o Negro
Production Design
O padre Hugh O'Flaherty (Gregory Peck) tomou para si uma missão corajosa e perigosa: ajudar a esconder refugiados durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ele monta uma verdadeira rede de colaboradores em Roma, para evitar que as tropas alemãs prendam e matem ainda mais pessoas. Porém, quando o chefe da polícia nazista, coronel Kappler (Christopher Plummer), descobre, passa a perseguir o clérigo. Além disso, O'Flaherty tem de lidar com a indiferença do Papa Pio XII, que insiste numa suposta "neutralidade" da Igreja.
O Corcunda de Notre Dame
Production Design
O filme é uma adaptação do clássico de Victor Hugo e conta a história do deformado Quasimodo, que se apaixona pela cigana Esmeralda. Infelizmente, o pai rigoroso de Quasimodo, Dom Claude Frollo, também se encanta com Esmeralda, resultando em um conflito. Porém a presença do belo soldado Phoebus, complica a situação.
A Tale of Two Cities
Production Design
Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.
Poder de Fogo
Production Design
A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.
O Homem da Máscara de Ferro
Production Design
Clássico de Alexandre Dumas sobre os irmãos gêmeos (um bom e o outro mau) herdeiros do trono francês: O homem prisioneiro sob uma máscara de ferro e seu afetado e elegante irmão gêmeo, o Rei Louis XIV. O homem fechado sob a máscara é Phillipe, considerado morto, irmão gêmeo do Rei, considerado herdeiro por direito ao trono, era mantido na obscuridade por motivos políticos. Seu destino é assumir o trono no lugar do irmão, Louis, que é manipulado por Fouquet. O capitão dos mosqueteiros, D´Artagnam, e Colbert, ministro do Rei para assuntos domésticos, planejam restaurar a desejada autonomia e prosperidade do reino ao substituir Phillipe pelo Rei. O plano tem sucesso e Phillipe assume o trono enquanto seu irmão é condenado na máscara de ferro.
A Fera Deve Morrer
Art Direction
Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.
As Novas Viagens de Simbad
Production Design
Esta é uma espetacular aventura passada nas misteriosas terras antigas, habitadas por incríveis criaturas! Simbad (John Phillip Law) - Príncipe de Bagdá e lendário marinheiro - acha um intrigante mapa e sai em busca da desconhecida ilha de Lemuria, levando a bela escrava Margiana (Caroline Muron) e o Grão Vizir de Marabia. O Príncipe Koura (Tom Baker), um maligno feiticeiro que tenta obter o controle de Marabia com a manipulação de espíritos do mal, segue-os para impedir o sucesso de Simbad. Mas o marinheiro encontra Lemuria a despeito dos terríveis feitiços lançados por Koura em seu caminho. Em Lemuria, Simbad e sua corajosa tripulção lutam contra uma estátua de seis espadas, um centauro de um olho só e um Grifo, fabuloso animal com cabeça de águia e garras de leão. Finalmente Simbad confronta-se a Koura, num duelo de vida e morte!
Shaft em África
Production Design
Mais um desafio para o famoso detective privado sempre em frente. Espanquem, droguem, raptem e deixem John Shaft semi-despido num buraco malcheiroso sem problemas. Se quiserem recrutar este duro detective de Manhattan para uma missão fora do país, é melhor utilizar uma linguagem à sua altura. Uma que ofereça uma boa quantia à cabeça. E de preferência um bom rabo de saias como cúmplice. O indomável Shaft, disfarça-se de escravo, desmascara o líder de um cartel de tráfico de escravos de África para a Europa e, como complemento, mistura negócios com prazer envolvendo-se com uma lindíssima princesa.
The Asphyx
Production Design
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
The Darwin Adventure
Production Design
The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.
Criaturas Que o Mundo Esqueceu
Production Design
Na Pré-História, uma tribo tenta sobreviver após o local onde moravam ser destruído por um vulcão. Eles são obrigados ter contato com outras tribos e tentar viver em sociedade para sobreviver.
Cromwell, O Homem de Ferro
Production Design
O filme narra os feitos de Oliver Cromwell que liderou as forças do Parlamento de Inglaterra durante a Guerra Civil Inglesa e, mais tarde com o título de Lord Protetor, dirigiu a Grã Bretanha e Irlanda em meados do século XVII. Um elenco cheio estrelas cinematográficas, com Richard Harris como Cromwell e Alec Guinness como o Rei Carlos I da Inglaterra.
How I Won the War
Art Direction
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
A Patrulha da Esperança
Art Direction
Em 1954, durante os últimos dias do envolvimento militar francês na Indochina, o coronel francês Pierre-Noel Raspeguy está liderando seus paraquedistas na decisiva batalha de Dien Bien Phu. Uma guarnição francesa enfraquecida enfrenta um grande ataque de tropas comunistas do Viet Minh. Quando sua posição é invadida pelo inimigo Raspeguy e seus homens são feitos prisioneiros. Depois do tratado de paz, eles são libertados e regressam à França, onde o Coronel Raspeguy recebe o comando de um novo regimento aéreo com destino à Argélia. Os franceses estão tentando impedir a Argélia de obter a independência total da França. O Exército francês está envolvido em operações de contra insurgência, em ambientes urbanos e rurais, contra a guerrilha argelina liderada pela Frente de Libertação Nacional da Argélia (FLNA). Esta é a última chance do coronel Raspeguy de provar suas habilidades de comando e salvar sua carreira militar.
O Colecionador
Art Direction
Freddy, um rapaz solitário, em sua obsessão por uma mulher, aprisiona-a no porão de sua casa. Ele quer criar vínculo afetivo com a moça, demonstrando seu amor por ela e querendo ser correspondido. Mas só o sequestro em si será o primeiro de uma série de obstáculos à reciprocidade desejada por Freddy. Adaptação do best-seller de John Fowles.
The 7th Dawn
Production Design
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
A Sombra de uma Fraude
Art Direction
When pilot Rex Black destroys his plane in a crash the day after his insurance policy expires, the insurance company refuses to give him any money. To strike back at the agency, Rex fakes his death, changes his identity, and escapes to Spain, with 50,000 pounds in life insurance money. His wife joins him in Spain, but when an insurance investigator arrives unexpectedly, Rex's paranoia causes him to flee again.
Lawrence da Arábia
Art Direction
Graças ao seu conhecimento dos beduínos, o oficial britânico T.E. Lawrence é enviado à Arábia para encontrar o príncipe Faisal e servir de ligação entre árabes e ingleses na luta contra os turcos. Com a ajuda do nativo xerife Ali, Lawrence se rebela contra as ordens de seus superiores e enfrenta uma jornada através do deserto para atacar um porto turco bem protegido.
She'll Have to Go
Art Direction
When Francis and Douglas Oberon learn that their late grandmother has bequeathed the family fortune to distant cousin Toni, they immediately start plotting to get their hands on the money. They dream up a plot whereby they cannot fail to acquire a comfortable future; the lovely Toni must either be murdered, or married...
Fruto de Verão
Art Direction
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
Light Up the Sky!
Art Direction
Lewis Gilbert's classic comedy drama portrays the antics of a British Army Searchlight Squad during World War II. Lieutenant Ogleby (Ian Carmichael) has his work cut out to keep his "legionnaires" at their post and not rampaging through the local countryside. The McGaffey brothers (Benny Hill and Tommy Steele) create havoc with their light-fingers and light-loving with the local girls, whilst Smithy (Johnny Briggs) pines for his sweetheart.
Light Up the Sky!
Production Design
Lewis Gilbert's classic comedy drama portrays the antics of a British Army Searchlight Squad during World War II. Lieutenant Ogleby (Ian Carmichael) has his work cut out to keep his "legionnaires" at their post and not rampaging through the local countryside. The McGaffey brothers (Benny Hill and Tommy Steele) create havoc with their light-fingers and light-loving with the local girls, whilst Smithy (Johnny Briggs) pines for his sweetheart.
Mark of the Phoenix
Art Direction
A jewel thief finds himself a target when a smuggled cigarette case made from a stolen new metal falls into his hands.
A Question of Adultery
Art Direction
Mark Loring is madly jealous of his wife, Mary, former American cabaret singer. Due to an automobile accident, she loses her unborn child, and Mark becomes sterile. His father, Brit-stuffy Sir John Loring, has never approved of the marriage and, again, tries to break it up. Believing that a child will hold the marriage together, Mary suggests artificial insemination to Mark, who finally agrees to accompany her to a clinic in Switzerland. However, when she is again pregnant, Mark finds it impossible to reconcile himself to the situation and leaves her. Prompted by his father, Mark sues for divorce, accusing her of adultery. She contests the divorce and a trial concerns itself with whether or not artificial insemination is a question of adultery. The Catholic Church's National League of Decency placed this film on its Condemned" list.
Suicídio ou Assassinato?
Art Direction
Embora a polícia tenha chamado a morte de sua mãe como suicídio, uma adolescente acredita que seu padrasto a assassinou.
The Camp on Blood Island
Art Direction
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
Strangers' Meeting
Art Direction
A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute British programmer. The beautiful Delphi Lawrence heads a stellar cast, including such reliables as Victor Maddern, Norman Rossington, Conrad Phillips and Reginald Hearne. The plot centers around acrobat Peter Arne, falsely accused of murder. Escaping from the authorities, Arne hides out in a rustic inn, allowing first-time director (and former cinematographer) Robert Day ample opportunity for dark, menacing shadows and sinister underlighting. The genuine murderer is revealed just seconds before the culprit's death. Stranger's Meeting was held back from release until Robert Day's "official" directorial debut, The Green Man, had made the rounds.
The Surgeon's Knife
Art Direction
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
That Woman Opposite
Art Direction
In a French coastal town, Det. Dermot Kinross is inspecting the murder of antiques dealer Maurice Lawes, and the evidence points to Lawes's son, Toby -- and especially to Toby's bride-to-be, Eve Atwood. Eve's ex-husband, Ned, had his eyes set on something Lawes possessed.
Assignment Redhead
Art Direction
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
The Weapon
Art Direction
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.
Bond of Fear
Art Direction
An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.
Johnny, You're Wanted
Art Direction
Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee, but on returning to his cab finds the woman gone. Assuming she has hitched another ride, he continues on his way. A short time later he is flagged down by another driver, who has come across a woman lying by the roadside. The woman is Johnny's hitchhiker and she's dead.
Secret Venture
Art Direction
An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.
Cross Channel
Art Direction
Charter-boat owner "Tex" Parker is framed on a murder rap by a gang of jewel-and-American currency smugglers operating from the coasts of England and France, with a mid-channel rendezvous. The smugglers use him, his boat and partner, "Soapy", to carry their goods back and forth across the English. During one of the trips, "Tex" is thrown overboard, but is picked up by a French fishing boat and the fisherman take him back to their village, Porte Soliare, where he meets Jacqueline. People who appear to be quite dead early on turn out to be not dead later on, and money and swag and goods keep changing hands with such regularity that, at one point, one guy is searching for something he already has (and doesn't know it), while another guy isn't searching for it because he thinks he has it...but doesn't.
A Sombra do Pecado
Art Direction
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.
Room in the House
Art Direction
Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
The Black Rider
Art Direction
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
Radio Cab Murder
Art Direction
Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
A Fera Adormecida
Art Direction
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
Scarlet Web
Art Direction
An insurance investigator is framed for murder after a pretty woman hires him to recover a letter from a man who wants to blackmail her.
The Large Rope
Art Direction
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.
Roadhouse Girl
Art Direction
A middle-aged garage owner's life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.