Basil Radford
Рождение : 1897-06-25, Chester, England, UK
Смерть : 1952-10-20
История
Arthur Basil Radford was an English character actor who featured in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s. He is probably best remembered for his appearances alongside Naunton Wayne as one half of Charters and Caldicott, two cricket-obsessed Englishmen who appeared in several films from 1938 to 1949, most famously in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Idea
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
Major Arthur Hill
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
Dickinson
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
A demobbed serviceman finds that his village has fallen on hard times. With the help of family, friends and the villagers he enters his boat in a yacht race. Winning will mean orders for new boats and life for the village.
Gregg
Классическая британская комедия студии "Илинг". Обнаружив старый договор, юридически относящийся к давно несуществующему герцогству Бургундия, жители одного района Лондона объявляют независимость и формируют правительство. Теперь, чтобы попасть туда, нужно иметь "Пропуск в Пимлико".
Captain Paul Waggett
Идёт Вторая мировая война. Однако, на небольшом островке на северо-западе Шотландии другая беда. Сюда не падают бомбы, не взрываются гранаты, не гибнут люди. Здесь закончилось виски! Жизнь утратила свою привлекательность, мужчины оделись в чёрное, даже дети почувствовали, что что-то не так. Но, однажды, у берегов острова потерпел крушение корабль с грузом виски на борту...
The Mechanical Type
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
Maj. Bright
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
Maj. Bright
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Henry Garnet
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
Desmond Curry
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
A man gets divorced from a nagging wife meets a girl in a million. Or is she?
Major Ossy Dalrymple
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.
George Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story")
Таинственный клиент приглашает архитектора Крэйга в свой дом, и по прибытии у Крэйга появляется странное чувство, что это место ему знакомо, несмотря на то, что ранее он никогда тут не бывал. Вскоре выясняется, что это на самом деле кошмарный сон, и чтобы пробудиться, Крэйгу придётся выслушать пять страшных историй от собравшихся здесь людей.
'Tiny' Williams
Старшина Питер Пенроуз начинает службу в подразделении бомбардировщиков и проходит путь от новичка до опытного лётчика. Он влюбляется в молодую девушку Айрис, которая живёт в отеле недалеко от военной базы. Но Питер не решается попросить руки Айрис, зная, что в любой момент может погибнуть, тем самым обрекая её на горькую участь вдовы...
Kenneth
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.
Charters
Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, and Anne Crawford, was written by Sidney Gilliat, and directed by Gilliat and Frank Launder. It was filmed at Gainsborough Studios. When Celia Crowson (Roc) is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life, and begins a relationship with a young airman.
Captain Wilkinson
Drama written in flames and told with the staccato of canon-fire!
Himself
Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II.
Lamb
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
Careless Talker on Train
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
Sederman
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
Hawtrey Charters
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.
Charters
осле захвата Гитлером Чехословакии Анна Бомаш арестована. Ее отец, Аксель, располагающий ценной и нужной нацистам технической информацией, бежал в Англию. Анна заключена в концлагерь. Там она знакомится с Карлом Марсеном, с которым ей удается бежать в Англию, а в Лондоне она вступает в контакт с исполнителем мьюзик-холла Гасом Беннеттом, якобы британским агентом, в надежде, что тот свяжет ее с отцом. Но и дочь, и отец обмануты Марсеном, он оказывается агентом гестапо, и попадают в Германию. Нацисты угрожают Анне расправой, чтобы добиться согласия отца на сотрудничество. Беннет следует за ними в Германию, где и узнает, что дочь и отец должны быть на ночном поезде в Мюнхен. Он садится на тот же поезд и освобождает отца и дочь. Вся троица бежит в Швейцарию. За ними гонятся Марсен и эсэсовцы.
Doctor Threadgrove
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
Mr. Sidway
A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this, and then, to redeem themselves, the kids begin investigating a rival candidates conspiracy. Their involvement causes the boy's father to win the elections.
Mr. Barradine
A young women under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but is suddenly stricken with a case of amnesia. A con artist takes advantage...
(uncredited)
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
Lord George
Мэри, осиротев, приезжает на побережье Корнуолла к своим дяде и тётке, содержащим таверну «Ямайку». Вскоре Мэри понимает, что таверна является базой для банды, грабящей суда, разбившиеся о скалистый берег. Жизни сироты угрожает опасность, однако среди головорезов есть человек, готовый помочь девушке.
Lord Pilton
A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it.
Bill Madison
Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.
Watson
An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.
Guest at Madame Berdi's
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
Reggie Baird
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result.
Charters
Действие фильма происходит накануне второй Мировой Войны. В поезде, едущем из Тироля в Лондон, загадочным образом исчезает пожилая леди. Ее попутчица начинает расследовать это происшествие вместе с молодым человеком. Постепенно они, вместе с остальными пассажирами, оказываются втянутыми в шпионскую интригу.
Deputy Governor
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
Erica's Uncle Basil
Роберт Тисдолл становится главным подозреваемым по делу об убийстве актрисы. Все улики складываются не в его пользу — девушка задушена поясом от его плаща. Дело ведет полицейский полковник Бергойн, уверенный в виновности Роберта. Но дочь полицейского, очаровательная Эрика, считает, что расследование пошло по ложному пути, и у молодых людей завязывается романтическое чувство…
Defending Counsel
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
Henry Crane
A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.
Mr. Reed
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
Basil Mallory
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means - fair or foul!
Tom
A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure.
Sir John Moynton
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
Rudolph (uncredited)
A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, the time at which she has calculated that it will be safe to tell the truth! But when his fiancée arrives unexpectedly and then his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing...
Corporal
While a Canadian soldier recovers in London, a nurse tells him that a Scottish widow believes he is her son. To comfort the widow, the soldier agrees to pretend to be her Scottish son. Seven Days Leave is a screen adaption of one of James M. Barrie's plays, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.
Standish
Freddie owns a failing old hotel. To attract new business he spreads the rumor that there's pirate treasure hidden somewhere in the building.