A.W. Watkins

Nascimento : 1895-12-01, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, UK

Morte : 1970-01-01

Filmes

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
Sound Supervisor
Survivors of a sinking ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city where they may spend the rest of their lives.
Adeus, Mr. Chips
Recording Supervision
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.
Hot Millions
Recording Supervision
A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.
2001: Uma Odisséia no Espaço
Sound Supervisor
Desde a “Aurora do Homem” (a pré-história), um misterioso monólito negro parece emitir sinais de outra civilização, assim interferindo no nosso planeta. Quatro milhões de anos depois, no século XXI, uma equipe de astronautas liderados pelo experiente David Bowman (Keir Dullea) e Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) é enviada ao planeta Júpiter para investigar o enigmático monólito na nave Discovery, totalmente controlada pelo computador HAL-9000. Entretanto, no meio da viagem, HAL-9000 entra em pane e tenta assumir o controle da nave, eliminando um a um os tripulantes.
Battle Beneath the Earth
Recording Supervision
Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United States.
A Colina dos Homens Perdidos
Recording Supervision
Durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial, o exército britânico mantém um acampamento para disciplinar militares, que tenham uma conduta reprovável, principalmente a deserção. Lá, os militares são obrigados diariamente a escalar uma colina, sob o sol escaldante. Um dia chegam 5 novos prisioneiros e cada um enfrentará de modo diferente a autoridade e o sadismo dos seus comandantes.
Operação Crossbow
Recording Supervision
Em um esforço para saber mais sobre os foguetes alemães V1 e V2, os aliados se infiltram como trabalhadores na fábrica de mísseis nazista em Peenemünde. Os agentes selecionados são todos engenheiros e eles assumem as identidades de indivíduos da vida real que estão mortos ou permitiram. O que eles não sabem é que a missão foi comprometida desde o início pelo fato de que um deles é procurado por assassinato e que um dos candidatos para a missão é na verdade um agente nazista. No final, os dois agentes restantes ajudam a RAF a localizar a fábrica durante uma campanha de bombardeio maciço.
Quando Floresce o Amor
Sound Recordist
Tommy Tyler, a lazy Caribbean sailor, and his tom-boy daughter, Spring, are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a young lawyer, to help with the search. Ashton turns out to be handy when they encounter dangerous rivals. Tommy also tries to play match maker between Ashton and Spring – a difficult task indeed.
O Rolls-Royce Amarelo
Recording Supervision
Filme antológico sobre três diferentes proprietários de um Rolls-Royce amarelo. Começando nos anos 20 com Lord Charles, um diplomata britânico, que compra o carro para sua esposa francesa como um presente de aniversário. Nos anos 30 outro proprietário é Paolo Maltese, um mafioso que compra o carro durante uma viagem à Itália e o deixa com a namorada enquanto volta para Chicago. Então nos anos 40 o carro pertence à viúva americana Gerda, que leva um guerrilheiro iugoslavo a Ljubljana na véspera da invasão nazista.
A Velha Investiga
Recording Supervision
Quando Miss Jane Marple (Margaret Rutherford) se junta a uma companhia teatral depois que um chantagista é assassinado, vários membros da tropa também são despachados por este misterioso assassino.
A Velha Descobre o Crime
Recording Supervision
Miss Marple e Stringer são testemunhas da morte por ataque cardíaco de idosos, ricos, Enderby. No entanto, eles têm dúvidas sobre o que aconteceu. A polícia não acredita neles, levando Miss Marple a investigar novamente por si mesma.
Follow the Boys
Recording Supervision
Four women create mayhem as they follow their Navy partners around the Riviera.
O Inspetor
Sound Supervisor
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
A Matter of WHO
Recording Supervision
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
O Estranho Caso da Velha Curiosa
Sound Supervisor
Quando Miss Jane Marple (Margaret Rutherford) relata testemunhar um assassinato pela janela de um trem que passava, a Polícia a dispensa como uma solteirona pontuda quando nenhum traço do crime pode ser encontrado.
A Noite é Minha Inimiga
Sound Recordist
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.
O Pequeno Polegar
Recording Supervision
Uma comédia musical adaptada do clássico conto dos irmãos Grimm, onde um certo dia um lenhados poupa uma árvore especial e a Rainha da Floresta, em sinal de agradecimento concede-lhe uma preciosa dádiva: um filho, uma vez que o casal de lenhadores há muito ansiavam ter mas sem resultados. Esse filho, porém, era tão pequenino tão pequenino que tinha o tamanho de um polegar! O protagonista (Russ Tamlyn, um bailarino que já havia atuado em 'Sete Noivas Para Sete Irmãos' com 24 anos interpreta uma criança. Gorge Pal, com o grande sucesso deste filme, conseguiu realizar a produção considerado o melhor filme de sua carreira: 'A Máquina do Tempo - The Time Machine' (1960), adaptação da obra de H.G. Wells. Agora remasterizado direto do negativo original e dublado em português, O Pequeno Polegar, é uma raridade inédita, é imprescindível à história do cinema e para os fãs do gênero.
I Accuse!
Recording Supervision
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
Dois Amores e uma Cabana
Recording Supervision
Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.
Mogambo
Sound Director
Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.
Ivanhoé, o Vingador do Rei
Recording Supervision
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.
Calling Bulldog Drummond
Recording Supervision
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
Sob o Signo de Capricórnio
Sound Designer
Em 1831 o irlandês Charles Adare (Michael Wilding) viaja à Austrália para começar uma nova vida. Logo ao chegar conhece o poderoso Sam Flusky (Joseph Cotten) e descobre que a esposa deste, Henrietta (Ingrid Bergman), foi sua colega de infância. Bela e instável, Henrietta é agora uma atormentada alcoólatra e sua reaproximação de Charles desperta ciúmes em Sam.
Meu Filho
Recording Supervision
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
The Gentle Sex
Sound Recordist
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
The Day Will Dawn
Sound Supervisor
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
Invasão de Bárbaros
Sound Supervisor
Uma tripulação de U-boat da Segunda Guerra Mundial está encalhada no norte do Canadá. Para evitar o aprisionamento, eles devem ir até a fronteira e entrar nos EUA que ainda estão neutros.
O Professor Smith
Recording Supervision
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
A Call for Arms!
Sound
"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchener's famous finger persuades Joan and Ireen, dancers in a 'Non Stop Nudes' revue (not that we see anything that warrants that title), to make a radical career change. Swapping their skimpy costumes for dowdy munitions factory overalls, they join a growing domestic army of women keeping the machines rolling. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst was essentially a feature film director, whose best-remembered work is the Dickens adaptation Scrooge, but whose credits also included the war films Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and The Malta Story (1953). The Call for Arms was one of three propaganda shorts he made between 1940 and 1941, the most memorable being Miss Grant Goes to the Door, in which a pair of village spinsters outwit a Nazi paratrooper.
Miss Knowall
Sound
Short government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime.
O Ladrão de Bagdá
Sound Director
Menino ladrão das ruas de Bagdá ajuda jovem sultão deposto do trono por feiticeiro a recuperar o poder. Para isso conta com a ajuda de um gênio mágico que lhe concede três desejos.
Busman's Honeymoon
Sound Recordist
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
A Window in London
Recording Supervision
A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is now involved more than he ever thought he would be.
Ten Days in Paris
Recording Supervision
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
Contraband
Sound Recordist
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
An Englishman's Home
Sound Recordist
A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.
3 Semanas de Loucura
Sound Director
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Recording Supervision
Durante uma partida de futebol beneficente, um dos atletas desmaia. Quando ele morre, o inspetor Slade da Scotland Yard é chamado e declara que foi um assassinato. É preciso toda a sua engenhosidade e mais uma morte antes que o motivo seja descoberto e o assassino revelado.
O Espião Submarino
Sound Director
Um submarino alemão é enviado para as Ilhas Orkney em 1917 para afundar a frota britânica. Quando um capitão de U-Boat alemão é enviado em uma missão de espionagem ao norte da Escócia durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, ele encontra mais do que esperava com seu contato, a professora da escola local.
Adeus, Sr. Chips
Sound
O filme, baseado no romande de James Hilton, conta a história do Sr. Chipping (Robert Donnar), um respeitado professor de latim, obcecado pelo trabalho. Um dia, este homem com uma vida muito discreta, conhece e se apaixona pela extrovertida Katherine (Greer Garson). Sua convivência com a moça o torna mais amigável e ele ganha a confiança de seus alunos. Tudo parecia bem, mas uma tragédia acontece e muda sua vida novamente.
This Man in Paris
Sound Recordist
A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
Q Planes
Sound Supervisor
An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.
The Citadel
Sound Recordist
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
The Challenge
Sound Director
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
Um Yankee em Oxford
Sound
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
The Squeaker
Sound
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
O Amor Nasceu do Ódio
Sound
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.
Action for Slander
Sound Director
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
Fogo Sobre a Inglaterra
Sound Designer
Durante o reino da Rainha Elizabeth I, na Inglaterra, as tensões militares com a Espanha são evidentes. Em meio a um ambiente de amor e guerra, um espião é enviado à Península Ibérica para investigar possíveis suspeitos e futuros ataques ao seu país.
Storm in a Teacup
Sound Director
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
O Menino e o Elefante
Sound Director
Robert Flaherty and Zoltán Korda shared best director honors at the Venice Film Festival for collaborating on this charming translation of Rudyard Kipling’s “Jungle Book” story “Toomai of the Elephants.” A harmonious mix of the two filmmakers’ styles, Flaherty's adeptness at ethnographic documentary meeting Korda's taste for grand adventure, ELEPHANT BOY also served as the breakthrough showcase for the thirteen-year-old Sabu, whose beaming performance as a young mahout leading the British on an expedition made him a major international star.
Men Are Not Gods
Recording Supervision
Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.
Southern Roses
Sound
A musical comedy of false identities.
Dishonour Bright
Sound Director
A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Sound Director
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
Daqui a Cem Anos
Recording Supervision
Baseado na obra de H.G. Wells, narra cem anos de história da humanidade, de 1930 até o século XXI. Esse período é atravessado por guerras que duram décadas, uma peste que aniquila metade da população e a reconstrução da civilização em busca do espaço sideral.
Um Fantasma Camarada
Sound Director
An American businessman's family convinces him to buy a Scottish castle and disassemble it to ship it to America brick by brick, where it will be put it back together. The castle though is not the only part of the deal, with it goes the several-hundred year old ghost who haunts it.
A Revolução Francesa
Sound Recordist
Uma mulher nobre descobre que o seu marido é o "Pimpinela Escarlate", um vigilante que resgata aristocratas da lâmina da guilhotina.
A Rainha Imortal
Sound
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
Os Amores de Henrique VIII
Sound
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
These Charming People
Sound
A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton
The Sport of Kings
Sound
Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
A Warm Corner
Sound Engineer
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!