Maurice Carter

Nascimento : 1913-04-24, London, England, UK

Morte : 2000-04-01

Filmes

Bodyguard Seduction
Matt
Charly, a wealthy business woman, must decide whom she can trust when she falls for a sexy bodyguard who might be involved in a plot to assassinate her. Charly relies on seduction to get to the truth when her life is threatened more than once by a mysterious killer. Who could it be? What's their agenda? Will Charly find out before it's too late?
O Primeiro Assalto de Trem
Production Design
Na Inglaterra Vitoriana de 1855, dois homens e uma mulher planejam roubar o ouro de um trem em movimento. Liderados por um ladrão experiente, eles elaboram um plano detalhado para a ação que ficará conhecida como o primeiro roubo a trem de que se tem notícia.
The People That Time Forgot
Production Design
A sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in a world populated by primitive warriors and terrifying prehistoric creatures, all of whom they must evade in order to get back safely
No Coração da Terra
Production Design
Um veículo projetado especialmente para perfurar as rochas do solo, faz uma viagem para o núcleo da Terra, encontrando uma misteriosa civilização vivendo em seu interior, além de perigosos animais pré-históricos.
A Terra Que o Tempo Esqueceu
Production Design
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, um navio alemão afunda um navio inglês e traz os sobreviventes para bordo. Depois de uma curva errada, o submarino os leva à terra desconhecida de Caprona, onde encontram dinossauros e neandertais.
Vozes do Além
Production Design
Uma antologia de quatro breves histórias de terror que giram em torno de uma loja de antiguidades britânica e seu misterioso proprietário.
The House in Nightmare Park
Art Direction
Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British horror films of the early ‘70s. Starring Hugh Burden and Oscar winner Ray Milland, and written by Terry Nation. Foster Twelvetrees, a struggling tragedian who scrapes a living by giving hammy performances from the classics, can hardly believe his luck when he’s invited to give a dramatic reading at the country home of a well-off family. Joy soon turns to outraged horror when he discovers dead bodies, foul intentions, lots of snakes and a madwoman in the attic. Can he uncover the hidden family secret before he comes to a sticky end..?
Psychomania
Art Direction
A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. Following their leader, they commit suicide one after the other, but things don't necessarily turn out as expected...
O Medo é a Chave
Production Design
A man becomes a criminal in Louisiana after a plane crash. During a fight with local police, he escapes custody and kidnaps the daughter of a local millionaire.
O Grande Seqüestro
Art Direction
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name of the game.
All Coppers Are...
Art Direction
A young policeman and a small-time crook are both involved with the same girl.
O Vilão
Art Direction
O gângster implacável do East End, Vic Dakin, tem planos para uma invasão ambiciosa à van de uma fábrica de plásticos. Este é um desvio do modus operandi usual de Dakin, e o trabalho é ainda mais complicado por ter que trabalhar com a empresa do colega gangster Frank Fletcher. Enquanto Dakin trama, Wolfe negocia e negocia e o MP Draycott é pego em uma teia de sua própria iniquidade. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
O Estrangulador de Rillington Place
Art Direction
Baseado no caso da vida real do assassino em série britânico John Christie, e o que aconteceu com seus vizinhos Tim e Beryl Evans. Londres, 1949. John Christie é um homem modesto, de meia-idade que, junto com sua esposa Ethel, vive no apartamento térreo no 10 Rillington Place. Seu comportamento mascara o fato de ser um assassino em série. Seu modus operandi é agir como uma pessoa com algum conhecimento médico, atraindo mulheres inocentes para seu apartamento para cura-los de alguma doença, deixa-los inconscientes com o gás monóxido de carbono, se satisfazer sexualmente com o corpo inconsciente, e em seguida estrangular a vítima e descartar o corpo em algum lugar. e 16.
Ana dos Mil Dias
Production Design
O rei Henrique VIII (Richard Burton) apaixona-se pela jovem Anna Bolena (Geneviève Bujold). Casado com Catarina de Aragão, que não lhe deu um herdeiro homem, não mede esforços para ficar com Anna, rompendo com a Igreja Católica e criando a Igreja Anglicana. Mas Anna também não consegue lhe dar seu tão esperado filho homem. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
A Batalha da Grã-Bretanha
Supervising Art Director
A mais extraordinária batalha aérea da história, transformada num clássico filme de guerra. Em 1940, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, a RAF - Real Força Aérea britânica entra numa luta desesperada contra a Luftwaffe para impedir uma possível invasão das forças alemãs ao território inglês. Os soldados se engajam numa luta aérea pelo controle dos céus, e o que está em jogo é a sobrevivência da Inglaterra.
A Espiã Que Veio do Céu
Art Direction
Explosões de brincos, danças com touros, saltos de aviões a 10.000 pés de altitude... Fathom dá conta de tudo isso e muito mais nesta divertida história de espionagem. A sensual e voluptuosa pára-quedista Fathom Harvill (Raquel Welch) é recrutada por uma agência governamental ultra-secreta para saltar sobre a Espanha em busca de um desertor de guerra (Tony Franciosa) e de um detonador da bomba H que dizem estar com a misteriosa figura. Mas a espiã supersexy pode ter que revelar mais do que intencionava à medida que descobre a verdade por trás dos motivos de seu empregador e os resultados... serão hilários!
A Challenge for Robin Hood
Art Direction
After being falsely accused of murder, Sir Robin of Loxley takes refuge in the untamed wilderness of Sherwood Forest where he stumbles across a group of outlaws. Although initially suspicious of the aristocrat's motives, the men are soon won over by his integrity and prowess and Robin transforms them into a formidable fighting force, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. As word of his fame and valour spreads, a legend is born.
A Morte Não Manda Aviso
Art Direction
Dois agentes britânicos são assassinados por uma misteriosa organização Neonazi em Berlim Ocidental. O Serviço Secreto Britânico envia o agente Quiller para investigar. Logo Quiller é confrontado por Oktober, o chefe Neonazi, e envolvido em um jogo perigoso onde cada lado tenta descobrir a sede do inimigo a qualquer preço.
Um Jogador Romântico
Art Direction
Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.
Gengis Khan
Supervising Art Director
A história do épico líder mongol Genghis Khan, considerado o "Príncipe dos Conquistadores", desde sua infância até se rebelar em sua juventude. Ameaças de um rival fará Genghis Khan lutar contra as perseguições e formar um grande exército que conquista todo o Oriente.
Os Rifles de Batasi
Art Direction
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
The Beauty Jungle
Art Direction
A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
Becket
Art Direction
O Arcebisto de Canterbury (Felix Aylmer), grande opositor do Estado inglês, morre, e o Rei Henrique II nomeia um seu antigo amigo de festas para o cargo tentando evitar qualquer tipo de oposição. Mas o que Henrique II não contava era que Becket, seu antigo amigo, fosse ser mais rígido que qualquer outro antecessor. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Lancelot, o Cavaleiro de Ferro
Art Direction
In and around the castle Camelot, brave Cornel Wilde (as Lancelot) and virtuous Brian Aherne (as King Arthur) vie for the affections of lovely Jean Wallace (as Guinevere).
Deu a Louca no Doutor
Art Direction
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
It's Trad, Dad!
Art Direction
The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to London television studio to ask trad jazz musician to support their trial.
A Pair of Briefs
Art Direction
She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds find the answer?
Até o Último Gangster
Art Direction
A London accountant (Herbert Lom) forms six gangs into a syndicate which he tries to control with a killer (Sean Connery).
No, My Darling Daughter
Art Direction
A British business tycoon is surprised to discover his teenage daughter is being courted by a mysterious young man.
The Boy Who Stole a Million
Art Direction
A boy gets involved in a bank robbery
Vidas Íntimas
Art Direction
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
Meu Reino, Minha Vida
Art Direction
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
The Spanish Gardener
Production Design
British diplomat Harrington Brande takes up his new lowly post in Spain accompanied by his son Nicholas. That his wife had left him seems to have affected his career. Nicholas sees it all as something of an adventure and soon becomes friends with the new gardener, Jose. As Nicholas begins to spend more time with Jose, his father takes offense and is concerned at the boy's loss of affection for him. It leads him to bar Nicholas from even speaking to the gardener. And soon tensions mount.
A Day to Remember
Art Direction
Based on The Hand and the Flower, a novel by Jerrard Tickell, A Day to Remember stars Stanley Holloway as Charley Porter, captain of London darts team. When the team travels to the French town of Boulogne for the annual darts tournament, a good time is had by all--and more besides. Jim Carver one of the team's members, is reunited with a little French girl he'd befriended during the war, who has now developed into a beautiful young woman. And Fred Collins makes a poignant journey to the hotel where he'd honeymooned with his late wife. The film works best as a low-key comedy-drama; it is least successful when it ventures into O. Henry territory and strains for "surprise" story twists. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Always a Bride
Art Direction
Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins) who pose as a married couple and swindle wealthy clients at the region's swankiest resorts. But their scams take on a whole new dimension when daughter Clare falls for a British government bureaucrat (Terence Morgan) who may have a secret or two of his own. [Netflix]
Desperate Moment
Art Direction
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)
Confio em Ti
Art Direction
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.
White Corridors
Art Direction
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin. Marriner is aided in this endeavor by lady surgeon Dr. Sophie Dean (Googie Withers), who happens to be in love with him. After a tragedy occurs for which Marriner holds himself responsible, the film builds steadily to an exciting climax involving a untested -- and potentially dangerous -- serum. The top-rank British supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Moira Lister, Petula Clark, Basil Radford, Dagmar (later Dana) Wynter, Bernard Lee, and, in a minor role, future "Dr. Who" Patrick Troughton.
The Astonished Heart
Art Direction
Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.
Christopher Columbus
Production Design
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
The Bad Lord Byron
Art Direction
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
Tragédia nos Alpes
Art Direction
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
The Root of All Evil
Art Direction
Jeckie Farnish is a level-headed young woman, unlike her spoiled younger sister, Rushie. When the sisters become involved with charming businessman Charles Mortimer, the resulting tragedy leads to a lust for revenge on Rushie's part. However, Jeckie knows that she can always turn to reliable Joe Bartle in times of need.
Give Us the Moon
Art Direction
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).
Bees in Paradise
Art Direction
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. Askey plays a pilot who bales out over Paradise Island, not knowing that he is about to land in a bee-worshipping colony of women and that he is about to become a drone for the queen bee. When he finds out that, as custom demands, he is due to be sacrificed two months after the honeymoon, he soon starts thinking about escape. The women of course have other ideas.
A Dama Oculta
Set Designer
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.