Max Catto

Рождение : 1907-07-29,

Смерть : 1992-03-12

Фильмы

Война Мерфи
Novel
Хорошо поставленный, захватывающий боевик о войне, в котором наряду с батальными сценами дается психологический портрет английского моряка, который один остался в живых после того, как его судно оказалось потоплено немцами. Опираясь на помощь местного населения, после восстановления здоровья, он, одержимый местью, решает один напасть на немецкую армию, несмотря на то, что война уже закончилась…
Mister Moses
Novel
A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new homeland.
Дьявол в 4 часа
Novel
Самолет, перевозящий на Таити троих осужденных для отбытия срока, неожиданно совершает аварийную посадку на другом острове. С учетом сложившихся обстоятельств, заключенных отправляют работать в госпиталь для прокаженных детей. Один из них — Гарри — вполне доволен таким положением дел: лучше работать, чем сидеть в заточении. Но вскоре на острове происходит извержение вулкана, и теперь всем жителям, включая заключенных, необходимо объединить усилия, чтобы спастись и эвакуировать детей…
Семь воров
Novel
Тэо присылает своему старому подельнику Полу Мэйсону билет на самолет. Пол прилетает в Канны, где Тэо знакомит его с пятью остальными участниками задуманного им ограбления казино и уговаривает приятеля принять участие в этом дерзком предприятии. Семеро совершенно разных прохиндеев начинают подготовку к операции…
Ferry to Hong Kong
Novel
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. It's all one long, lazy voyage for Conrad until one fateful trip when an encounter with a typhoon and pirates forces Conrad to choose between an aimless drifter's life and becoming a man again.
Fire Down Below
Novel
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.
A Hill in Korea
Novel
Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.
Трапеция
Novel
Молодой человек приезжает в Париж учиться тройному сальто у одного из немногих акробатов, способных его исполнить. Вместе они начинают готовить номер. Но тут появляется акробатка, очаровавшая юношу, но полюбившая того, кто гораздо старше.
A Prize of Gold
Novel
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.
West of Zanzibar
Writer
Game warden Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory.
The Flanagan Boy
Novel
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.
Daughter of Darkness
Screenplay
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine (Siobhan McKenna) is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan (Maxwell Reed) and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favours from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran (Liam Redmond) to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
Daughter of Darkness
Theatre Play
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine (Siobhan McKenna) is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan (Maxwell Reed) and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favours from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran (Liam Redmond) to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...