Desmond Dew

Рождение : 1912-02-25, Warmley, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Смерть : 2007-10-24

Фильмы

A Great White Bird
Producer
This film documents the efforts of a group of Canadians and Americans to save the whooping crane from extinction. They display great determination in their dealings with this independent, pre-Ice Age creature. The issues of wild animals imprinting on people and the preservation of wild animals in captivity are examined in this film. Produced in cooperation with the Canadian Wildlife Service and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Descent
Producer
NFB short documentary
Freshwater World
Producer
This documentary explores a variety of projects undertaken by scientists at Environment Canada's Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg to study the processes that pollute or disrupt clean and balanced freshwater environments.
The Chiltern Hundreds
Sound Recordist
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in England, but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn – who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face, Pym decides to stand again – as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal, true-blue butler, Mr Beecham...
Adam and Evelyne
Sound Recordist
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.
The Perfect Woman
Sound Recordist
In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of Professor Belman, but it turns out rather to be the Professor's niece Penelope doing a pretty good imitation of the perfect Olga who winds up with them in the bridal suite at the Hotel Splendide.
Once Upon a Dream
Sound Recordist
An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.
Гамлет
Sound Recordist
Внезапно умирает король Дании. Его вдова, Гертруда, спешно вступает в брак с братом покойного мужа Клавдием, которого провозглашают новым королем. Принцу Гамлету является призрак и сообщает, что он предательски отравлен собственным братом. В поначалу застенчивом и мечтательном юноше зреет жажда мести и ненависть к убийце отца, и жалость к обманутой матери, идущей на поводу у собственных чувств. В свою очередь, Клавдий также хочет смерти пасынка.
It's Hard to be Good
Sound Recordist
A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.
The Weaker Sex
Sound
A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.
Красные башмачки
Sound Recordist
Балет по мотивам сказки Ганса Христиана Андерсена о паре волшебных туфелек, которые наделяют танцора способностью сказочно танцевать, но не дают остановиться, приносит огромный успех Джулиану и Виктории. Виктория влюбляется в талантливого композитора и выходит за него замуж, несмотря на возражения ревнующего Бориса, который предупреждает, что она зачеркивает свое блестящее будущее. Так начинается конфликт между импресарио и влюбленными.
Uncle Silas
Sound Recordist
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
School for Secrets
Sound Recordist
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
Короткая встреча
Sound Recordist
Лора Джессон и доктор Алек Харви познакомились в кафе на вокзале и стали встречаться здесь каждую неделю, прекрасно зная, что у их любви нет будущего…
Кентерберийская история
Sound Recordist
Грустная девушка, приехавшая работать на ферме вместо призванных на войну мужчин, американец, следующий в Кентербери, и британский сержант, на отдыхе перед отправкой на фронт, ночью оказались вместе в небольшой английской деревне. Пока они бродили, из темноты возник злоумышленник и облил девушку клеем. Как выяснилось, то был известный в округе и неуловимый «клейщик», поиски которого на время объединят героев.
The Way Ahead
Sound Recordist
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
This Happy Breed
Sound Recordist
In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.
Tawny Pipit
Sound Recordist
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
The Volunteer
Sound
World War II propaganda film.
The Silver Fleet
Sound
Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?