Noel Langley
Nascimento : 1911-12-25, South Africa
Morte : 1980-11-04
História
Noel Langley was a South African-born (later naturalised American) novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. He wrote the screenplay which formed the basis for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and is one of the three credited screenwriters for the film. His finished script for the film was revised by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, the other credited screenwriters. Langley objected to their changes and lamented the final cut upon first seeing it, but later revised his opinion. He attempted to write a sequel based on The Marvelous Land of Oz using many of the concepts he had added to its predecessor, but this was never released.
Novel
The world's on the brink of World War II, but a young actress is caught in a sentimental contest between a playwright and a director.
Story
An ice-skating television adaptation of the 1939 musical film based on Lyman Frank Baum's 1900 fairy tale novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".
Writer
This production consists an abbreviated script and highlights most musical numbers from the 1939 film.
Story
The Most Happy Fellows, a beloved barbershop quartet, perform a wonderful musical rendition of “The Wizard of Oz” (1939). The show and music was arranged by legenday barbershopper, Lloyd Steinkamp and offers an entertaining approach to this classic film. The 1977 International quartet champions were a perfect fit for this package.
Writer
O rei de um reino distante morre e deixa sua filha, Branca de Neve, vulnerável aos caprichos de sua sucessora, a Rainha Má. A rainha manda matar Branca de Neve, que consegue fugir para a floresta e encontra uma cabana ocupada por três patetas.
Writer
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.
Director
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.
Screenplay
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
Director
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
Screenplay
O recém coroado rei da Inglaterra, Arthur Pendragon dedica seu reinado e a irmandade dos Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda aos ideais de paz e justiça. Apoiando o Rei Arthur em seus objetivos está a sua amada Rainha Guinevere, o nobre Sir Lancelot e o misterioso Merlin. Lancelot e Guinevere estão divididos entre a secreta paixão que os envolve e a lealdade e respeito que nutrem por Arthur. Mas essa traição não é nada se comparada ao ódio que a feiticeira Morgana, meia irmã de Arthur, e seu filho Mordred sentem pelo Rei de Camelot.
Screenplay
Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat, prickly young Jimmy Carrol, and bald and bookish Professor Gibble. All fancy their chances.
Director
Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat, prickly young Jimmy Carrol, and bald and bookish Professor Gibble. All fancy their chances.
Producer
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Screenplay
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Director
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Screenplay
An Englishman vacationing in Ruritania is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
Screenplay
O leal cavaleiro britânico Wilfred de Ivanhoe sai em uma missão para libertar o rei sequestrado da Inglaterra, Ricardo Coração de Leão, nesta aventura empolgante. O bravo Ivanhoe deve, eventualmente, enfrentar o perverso príncipe John e o feroz guerreiro normando Brian de Bois-Guilbert, além das afeições das lindas donzelas Rowena e Rebecca.
Screenplay
Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) é um velho rico, avarento e grosseiro. Na noite de Natal, ele recebe a visita de três espíritos, representando o passado, o presente e o futuro. Os espíritos mostram a Scrooge sua vida, os sonhos que já teve, seus erros e o que ele pode vir a ser. Com isso Scrooge percebe seu egoísmo e muda seu jeito de ser. Considerada a melhor dentre as adaptações do livro Contos de Natal, de Charles Dickens.
Adaptation
Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) é um velho rico, avarento e grosseiro. Na noite de Natal, ele recebe a visita de três espíritos, representando o passado, o presente e o futuro. Os espíritos mostram a Scrooge sua vida, os sonhos que já teve, seus erros e o que ele pode vir a ser. Com isso Scrooge percebe seu egoísmo e muda seu jeito de ser. Considerada a melhor dentre as adaptações do livro Contos de Natal, de Charles Dickens.
Screenplay
After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.
Screenplay
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.
Writer
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Story
The father of a girl in an orphanage, who doesn't remember him, has been writing to her with tales of his success in business. Actually, he is impersonating a friend, a handsome gambler. When the father dies, the gambler takes the girl from the orphanage and tells her the truth. But the girl is now a full-grown beauty and complications arise, including those provided by a black-sheep brother.
Writer
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depicts a historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwyne.
Theatre Play
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
Adaptation
In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all the property owners to sell to him, except for a few properties owned by Jewish families. Infuriated at their refusal to sell to him, he attempts, with the help of some corrupt local police, to have the men charged with the murder of a local woman, who in reality actually committed suicide.
Associate Producer
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Screenplay
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Screenplay
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
Writer
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Additional Writing
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.
Adaptation
Dorothy e seu cachorro Totó são levados para a terra mágica de Oz quando um ciclone passa pela fazenda de seus avós no Kansas. Eles viajam em direção à Cidade Esmeralda para encontrar o Mago Oz e no caminho encontram um Espantalho, que precisa de um cérebro, um Homem de Lata sem um coração e um Leão Covarde que quer coragem. O Mago pede ao grupo que tragam a vassoura da Bruxa Malvada do Oeste a fim de ganharem sua ajuda.
Screenplay
Dorothy e seu cachorro Totó são levados para a terra mágica de Oz quando um ciclone passa pela fazenda de seus avós no Kansas. Eles viajam em direção à Cidade Esmeralda para encontrar o Mago Oz e no caminho encontram um Espantalho, que precisa de um cérebro, um Homem de Lata sem um coração e um Leão Covarde que quer coragem. O Mago pede ao grupo que tragam a vassoura da Bruxa Malvada do Oeste a fim de ganharem sua ajuda.
Theatre Play
The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls, and take them to Singapore.
Writer
An opera star's manager tries to stop her romance with a penniless singer.
Dialogue
A man travels to Istanbul to try and prevent a revolution.
