Basil Dearden

Basil Dearden

Рождение : 1911-01-01, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England

Смерть : 1971-03-23

История

Basil Dearden (born Basil Clive Dear; 1 January 1911 – 23 March 1971) was an English film director.

Профиль

Basil Dearden

Фильмы

The Last Appointment!
Director
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes.
Mission: Monte Carlo
Director
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
The Persuaders!
Director
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
The Man Who Haunted Himself
Executive Producer
Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong to him anymore.
The Man Who Haunted Himself
Screenplay
Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong to him anymore.
The Man Who Haunted Himself
Director
Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong to him anymore.
Бюро убийств
Director
Девушка, одержимая идеей равенства полов, Соня Винтер, ввязывается в весьма опасную авантюру. Став клиентом фирмы под устрашающим названием «Бюро убийств», она заказывает убийство самого главы этой организации Ивана Драгомилова. Иван, хорошо образованный молодой человек с высокими моральными устоями, унаследовавший дело своего отца, принимает заказ, бросив тем самым дерзкий вызов всем остальным членам организации…
Only When I Larf
Director
A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
Хартум
Director
Эта приключенческая историческая драма рассказывает о поражении, нанесенном в 1883 году британским войскам арабскими племенами Северной Африки. Великолепны батальные и массовые сцены.
Маскарад
Director
Работники министерства иностранных дел Дрексел и Фрэйзер (старые военные приятели, не очень разбирающиеся в вопросах шпионажа) получают задание похитить молодого арабского принца для его собственной защиты до его коронации. Экранизация по произведению Виктора Каннинга.
Соломенная женщина
Director
Это история сиделки богатого старика, которую племянник богача уговаривает выйти замуж за своего пациента, овладеть его богатством, а после смерти старика вместе получить удовольствие от его денег. Сиделка постепенно начинает проникаться любовью к больному богачу, однако, когда он внезапно умирает ее обвиняют в убийстве. Оказывается, что персонаж Коннери обманул сиделку и убил старого джентльмена, чтобы завладеть всеми его деньгами.
A Place to Go
Director
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
The Mind Benders
Director
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
Life for Ruth
Director
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
All Night Long
Director
Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear the interracial couple apart.
Жертва
Director
Преуспевающий юрист Мелвилл Фарр готовится стать королевским адвокатом. Расследуя смерть знакомого, арестованного и совершившего самоубийство в полицейском участке, Фарр выходит на группу вымогателей, шантажирующих гомосексуалистов. Фарр сам становится жертвой шантажа, но, ставя под угрозу свою карьеру, помогает полиции изобличить и задержать преступников.
The Secret Partner
Director
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Man in the Moon
Director
William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need. They con William into thinking he will continue his guinea pig career by testing out some equipment for them before they send a group of astronauts to the moon.
Лига джентльменов
Director
Хоукинс, недовольный, что его выгнали из армии, где он верно служил много лет, решает пойти на ограбление банка. Эту идею он позаимствовал из американского триллера и набрал семь нищих офицеров, у некоторых из которых было темное прошлое. Все они классные специалисты по своей части в армии. Банда уходит в подполье, пока каждый этап операции планируется до мельчайших подробностей. По военной части каждый офицер из банды был бы награжден медалью за такую организацию. Когда все запускается в действие, они со временем спотыкаются на крохотной, неучтенной детали.
Сапфир
Director
В парке обнаружено тело белой молодой девушки. Полиция начинает расследование и вскоре узнает, что девушка на самом деле была мулаткой с белой кожей. Эта информация приводит полицию к основной версии следствия: "белый цвет кожи девушки-мулатки кому-то очень сильно не нравился".
Desert Mice
Producer
A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble their way from army camp to camp.
Rockets Galore
Producer
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.
Violent Playground
Director
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
Davy
Producer
The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own ? The last comedy to be produced at Ealing Studios.
The Smallest Show on Earth
Director
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.
Кто это сделал?
Director
В этом дебютном фильме для дерзкого британского телевизионного комика Бенни Хилла заставляют Бенни оставить свою работу уборщиком после того, как он выиграл немного денег. Он становится частным детективом и расследует заговор с целью убийства британских ученых.
The Ship That Died of Shame
Screenplay
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
The Ship That Died of Shame
Producer
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
The Ship That Died of Shame
Director
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
Out of the Clouds
Director
A day following workers at an airport
The Rainbow Jacket
Director
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.
The Square Ring
Director
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
I Believe in You
Producer
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.
I Believe in You
Screenplay
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.
I Believe in You
Director
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.
The Gentle Gunman
Producer
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
The Gentle Gunman
Director
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
Pool of London
Director
Jewel thieves, murder and a manhunt swirl around a sailor (Bonar Colleano) off a cargo ship in London.
Cage of Gold
Director
A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiance, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame, the dashing but roguish former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan makes her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father can't offer him financial support. Two years later she - having been told that Glennan is dead - has married Kearn and borne him a son. But then Glennan suddenly reappears and begins to blackmail her.
The Blue Lamp
Director
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Train of Events
Director
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
Train of Events
Screenplay
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
Сарабанда для мертвых влюбленных
Director
Трагическая история любви принцессы Софии Доротеи Ганноверской и шведского дворянина, графа Филиппа Кенигсмарка.
Frieda
Director
A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.
The Captive Heart
Director
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.
Глубокой ночью
Director
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.
They Came to a City
Writer
People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city
They Came to a City
Director
People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city
The Halfway House
Director
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
My Learned Friend
Director
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
The Bells Go Down
Director
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
Did You Ever See a Dream Talking
Director
Propaganda comedy promoting the benefits of saving for the war effort.
The Goose Steps Out
Director
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Director
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
Turned Out Nice Again
Associate Producer
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Pearson then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.
Spare a Copper
Associate Producer
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
Spare a Copper
Writer
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
Джордж из Динки-джаза
Screenplay
События фильма разворачиваются в самом начале войны, когда угроза со стороны фашистской Германии перестает быть призрачной. Британским контрразведчикам удается получить ценные сведения о местоположении группы немецких шпионов. Где-то в норвежском Бергене расположилась опытная команда фашистов под прикрытием, изображающая джазовый оркестр. В срочном порядке готовится спецоперация по обезвреживанию противника. В какой-то момент план английской контрразведки отклоняется от заданной схемы, в результате чего в Норвегию отбывает не опытный агент, а чудаковатый музыкант небольшого джаз-бэнда Джордж Хепплуайт. В отсутствии других вариантов приходится уговорить паренька послужить на благо родине.
Now You're Talking
Script
Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets slip vital information about some overnight research on a captured enemy aircraft. This inevitably leads to this most important of secrets falling into the lap of the enemy.
Penny Paradise
Assistant Director
A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
This Man Is News
Writer
A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.