Benjamin Frankel

Рождение : 1906-01-31, London, England, UK

Смерть : 1973-02-12

Фильмы

Битва в Арденнах
Original Music Composer
Бельгия, последние месяцы Второй мировой войны. Немецкое командование готовит план контрнаступления. Вся надежда на секретную танковую дивизию, о которой союзнические войска пока еще ничего не знают. Руководить операцией назначен блестящий немецкий офицер — полковник Хесслер. Он понимает, что операция может быть провалена из-за банальной нехватки топлива, и принимает решение для начала захватить горючее у небольшого подразделения союзников.
The Siege of Manchester
Original Music Composer
A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
Ночь игуаны
Music
Запутавшийся и уставший от собственной жизни бывший священник Лоуренс пытается найти хоть капельку спокойствия на берегу моря. Однако оказывается, что люди вокруг нуждаются в любви и внимании ничуть не меньше, чем он сам.
Старый мрачный дом
Conductor
Продавец автомобилей Том получает приглашение посетить дом своего приятеля — эксцентричного пожилого миллионера Каспара. Согласившись на визит, Том встречается с очень странной семейкой хозяев и впутывается в убийство.
Старый мрачный дом
Original Music Composer
Продавец автомобилей Том получает приглашение посетить дом своего приятеля — эксцентричного пожилого миллионера Каспара. Согласившись на визит, Том встречается с очень странной семейкой хозяев и впутывается в убийство.
Guns of Darkness
Original Music Composer
Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.
Проклятие оборотня
Original Music Composer
Воспитанный приемными родителями сын немой дочери тюремщика и безумного бродяги оказывается оборотнем. Опекуны сумели окружить ребенка заботой и подавить в нем звериные инстинкты. Но когда парень возмужал, кошмар вернулся.
Клевета
Music
Ветеран Второй мировой войны, страдающий частичной потерей памяти, обвиняется своим бывшим сослуживцем в самозванстве...
Клевета
Compositor
Ветеран Второй мировой войны, страдающий частичной потерей памяти, обвиняется своим бывшим сослуживцем в самозванстве...
Orders to Kill
Music
A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.
Happy Is the Bride
Original Music Composer
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.
Brothers in Law
Music
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
Железная нижняя юбка
Music
Капитан КГБ, летчица Винка Коваленко приезжает в Лондон по заданию коммунистической партии. Она стройна и красива, но слишком уж одержима коммунистическим идеями. В Лондоне Винка знакомится с британским капитаном контрразведки, элегантным и обаятельным Чаком Локвудом. Молодые люди полюбили друг друга, а Чаку удалось убедить Винку в преимуществах «западного» мира.
Lost
Music Director
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
Lost
Conductor
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
Lost
Original Music Composer
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
Козлёнок за два гроша
Original Music Composer
Мама маленького Джо работает в ателье господина Кандинского швеёй, и Джо иногда бывает у неё на работе. Они кое-как сводят концы с концами на мамину зарплату, но в их бедном квартале есть соседи, которые даже голодают. Джо не знает, как помочь всем этим людям и маме, но очень хочет этого. Кандинский однажды говорил ему, что любое желание человека может исполнить только единорог из сказки. Джо покупает на свои сбережения маленького козлёнка, у которого по-особенному растут рожки. Он решил вырастить собственного единорога…
Storm Over the Nile
Conductor
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito. Re-used a great deal of stock footage from The Four Feathers (1939), including the entire final battle sequence.
Storm Over the Nile
Original Music Composer
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito. Re-used a great deal of stock footage from The Four Feathers (1939), including the entire final battle sequence.
Simon and Laura
Original Music Composer
Bickering married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show. Director Muriel Box's 1956 British comedy also stars Muriel Pavlow, Ian Carmichael, Maurice Denham and Richard Wattis.
Footsteps in the Fog
Original Music Composer
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid that discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
The Prisoner
Music
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
The End of the Affair
Music
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.
The Man Who Loved Redheads
Original Music Composer
Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experience. That liaison occurred in Justin's youth, when the young man matures and enters the diplomatic world, he spends the rest of his career searching for his first love.
Mad About Men
Original Music Composer
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
The Young Lovers
Conductor
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
The Young Lovers
Original Music Composer
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
Malaga
Original Music Composer
Maureen O'Hara hunts drug smugglers in Africa.
The Love Lottery
Music
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.
Power to Fly
Music
A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation from Daedalus to jets.
Always a Bride
Music Director
Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins) who pose as a married couple and swindle wealthy clients at the region's swankiest resorts. But their scams take on a whole new dimension when daughter Clare falls for a British government bureaucrat (Terence Morgan) who may have a secret or two of his own. [Netflix]
Always a Bride
Original Music Composer
Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins) who pose as a married couple and swindle wealthy clients at the region's swankiest resorts. But their scams take on a whole new dimension when daughter Clare falls for a British government bureaucrat (Terence Morgan) who may have a secret or two of his own. [Netflix]
The Net
Original Music Composer
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned flight with himself at the controls. Conflict also arises when one of his fellow scientists, taking advantage of Heathley's lack of attention toward his wife, Lydia (Phyllis Calvert), makes some moves on her. Then there is the question of just who is the enemy agent on the project.
The Moving Spirit
Music
A BAFTA award nominated animation tracing the development of the motor car from the original horseless carriage common in the late 19th century to the 1950s streamlined, massed produced, designs.
Человек, который смотрел, как проезжают поезда
Music
Кроткий кассир думает, что он убил своего босса. Он бежит с коробкой денег, надеясь на новую жизнь со своей молодой любовницей.
Как важно быть серьезным
Conductor
Экранизация одноименной пьесы Оскара Уайльда. Две молодые особы Гвендолин и Сесили мечтают выйти замуж за респектабельных, серьезных джентльменов по имени Эрнест. Под эти характеристики категорически не подходят их поклонники — неотразимый эгоист Джон и самовлюбленный хвастун Альджернон. Но это не останавливает двух молодых людей перед стремлением завоевать сердца своих возлюбленных. Они выдумывают себе альтер эго по имени Эрнест и пытаются сосватать его за девушек.
Как важно быть серьезным
Original Music Composer
Экранизация одноименной пьесы Оскара Уайльда. Две молодые особы Гвендолин и Сесили мечтают выйти замуж за респектабельных, серьезных джентльменов по имени Эрнест. Под эти характеристики категорически не подходят их поклонники — неотразимый эгоист Джон и самовлюбленный хвастун Альджернон. Но это не останавливает двух молодых людей перед стремлением завоевать сердца своих возлюбленных. Они выдумывают себе альтер эго по имени Эрнест и пытаются сосватать его за девушек.
Appointment with Venus
Original Music Composer
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
Человек в белом костюме
Original Music Composer
Эксцентричный изобретатель Сидни Стрэттон работает на текстильной фабрике. Однажды ему удается создать нечто необыкновенное. Новая ткань, изобретенная им, не рвется, не мнется, не изнашивается. Конкуренты начинают за ним охоту…
The Long Dark Hall
Original Music Composer
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.
The Clouded Yellow
Original Music Composer
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
Ночь и город
Original Music Composer
Гарри Фабиан — Лондонский шустрила с честолюбивыми планами, которые никогда не срабатывают. Однажды, когда он сталкивается с наиболее известным греко-римским борцом в мире, Грегориусом, в лондонской борцовской арене, которой управляет его сын Кристо, он выдумывает схему, которая, как он думает, положит начало к его финансовой независимости.
Double Confession
Music
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsuccessful attempts on his life while the police clear up the mystery.
Так долго на ярмарке
Music
Викки и её брат Джонни приезжают в Париж на Всемирную выставку 1889 года. На следующий день после того, как они остановились в отеле, Джонни исчезает. Хозяева отеля и персонал настаивают, что девушка приехала одна и что комнаты 19, якобы занимаемой братом, вообще не существует…
Trottie True
Music
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
The Chiltern Hundreds
Original Music Composer
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...
Portrait from Life
Original Music Composer
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
London Belongs to Me
Original Music Composer
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
Sleeping Car To Trieste
Music
Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
Daybreak
Music
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Bond Street
Music
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Mine Own Executioner
Original Music Composer
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Dancing with Crime
Original Music Composer
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
Dear Murderer
Original Music Composer
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
The Years Between
Original Music Composer
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
Малагасийская авантюра
Original Music Composer
Актер рассказывает о своем участии в движении Сопротивления, работе нелегальной радиостанции и увиливании от нацистов.
Radio Parade of 1935
Original Music Composer
One of the first screen outings for Will Hay. Hay plays the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (NBG) who hides away in his office unaware that the general feeling about his programming is that it is too high-brow and the public are not happy. However, when he discovers this he decides to take action and promotes Jimmy, his Head of the Complaints Department, to Programme Director. Jimmy decides that a series of variety spectaculars are what the public want and sets about hiring the acts. But obstacles are put in his way and he discovers that the NBG has its own cluster of wannabe variety stars.