Freddie FrancisFilmography

Cinemaker [Video Series]

Actors: Charles Band

The Straight Story

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Everett McGill, Jennifer Edwards-Hughes

Synopsis: David Lynch offers an uncharacteristically straightforward and warmly sentimental approach to his material in this film, based on a true story, about an elderly man's journey to reconcile with his brother. Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth) is an ailing widower in his early 70's who lives in Read More

Rainbow

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis: Actor Bob Hoskins directs this children's fantasy. When Mike (Willy Lavendal) actually finds the end of a rainbow, his friends don't believe it until he shows it to them. After that, they figure out how to find the next time and place for a rainbow-landing, and together they go to it. When they Read More

Princess Caraboo

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Phoebe Cates, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: Loosely based on an actual incident, this family-friendly British comedy is also a sly satire of class consciousness. Phoebe Cates stars as a woman who appears in the English countryside of 1817 wearing exotic garb and speaking gibberish. Delivered to a nearby manor, the mystery woman is sheltered Read More

A Life in the Theater

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Matthew Broderick

Synopsis: Originally made for cable television, this adaptation of an early play by author David Mamet focuses on the backstage relationship between two actors: Robert, an aging veteran and John, a young greenhorn. The pair, who share a dressing room in a repertory theatre, work together over the course of Read More

School Ties

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Andrew Lowery

Synopsis: An assemblage of young Hollywood actors poised for stardom marked this tale of anti-Semitism at a 1950s prep school. Brendan Fraser stars as David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who is offered a senior year scholarship to a prestigious New England academy. Read More

Brenda Starr

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Diana Scarwid, Charles Durning

Synopsis: Brook Shields plays the comic-strip journalist, Brenda Starr, who travels to a South American jungle on an assignment. It is there that she covers the story about a mad scientist who plans to blow up the planet with his newly developed rocket fuel. Also appearing are Timothy Dalton and Charles Durning Read More

Cape Fear

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear provided the director with a box-office success to follow up the critical success of the previous year's Goodfellas. After serving a lengthy prison sentence for a sexual assault, Max Cady (Robert De Niro) comes calling on the man who served as his public Read More

The Man in the Moon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland, Reese Witherspoon, Jason London

Synopsis: In its elegiac nostalgia for the days of childhood innocence, Robert Mulligan's The Man in the Moon recalls another of Mulligan's earlier films, To Kill A Mockingbird. Set in a Louisiana backwater town in the 1950s, the film chronicles the coming-of-age of a young teenage girl. Dani (Reese Witherspoon Read More

The Plot to Kill Hitler

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Brad Davis, Madolyn Smith, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: Inspired suave aristocrat Col. Claus von Stauffenberg's ingenious plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler during the waning days of World War II, director Lawrence Schiller's historical war drama traces the remarkable events that unfolded as the Third Reich's Operation Valkyrie emergency plan was Read More

Glory

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Cliff De Young, Andre Braugher

Synopsis: Glory is a celebration of a little-known act of mass courage during the Civil War. Simply put, the heroes involved have been ignored by history due to racism. Those heroes were the all-black members of the 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, headed by Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick Read More

Her Alibi

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels, James Farentino, Hurd Hatfield

Synopsis: A frustrated writer helps save a woman being railroaded by the law -- or is she? -- in this comic mystery with romantic overtones. Phil Blackwood (Tom Selleck) is a best-selling mystery novelist who has run into a bad case of writer's block. Hoping to find inspiration for his next book, Phil goes Read More

Clara's Heart

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Ontkean, Kathleen Quinlan, Neil Patrick Harris, Spalding Gray

Synopsis: In this sentimental coming-of-age drama, directed by Richard Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird) and written by Mark Medoff (Children of a Lesser God), Whoopi Goldberg plays Clara Mayfield, whom Leona Hart (Kathleen Quinlan) meets up with in Jamaica, where Leona retreats to mourn the death of her Read More

Dark Tower

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Carol Lynley, Theodore Bikel, Anne Lockhart

Synopsis: A successful architect (Jenny Agutter) is in the middle of a large building project, but a series of murders among the construction crew disrupts her plans. She gradually realizes that the unseen force is actually the ghost of her long-dead husband. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Doctor and the Devils

Crew: Director

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Julian Sands, Sian Phillips, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: A movie version of the stage play The Doctor and the Devils, written in the 1950s by Welsh poet/playwright Dylan Thomas, had been planned and shelved by several filmmakers before producer Mel Brooks and director Freddie Francis finally brought the project to fruition in 1985. Essentially, the Read More

Code Name: Emerald

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ed Harris, Horst Buchholz, Helmut Berger, Cyrielle Claire

Synopsis: In this slow-paced thriller set just before D-Day in Paris, Gus Lang (Ed Harris) is an American agent who has to make sure a captured U.S. officer is not forced to divulge the secret of the Normandy invasion. Since audiences know the invasion worked, the success of Gus Lang's espionage forays into Read More

Dune

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Francesca Annis, Leo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Kyle MacLachlan, Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis: David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and Read More

The Jigsaw Man

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray

Synopsis: This spy film purports to be inspired by the true story of Kim Philby (1912-1988), a British intelligence officer and Soviet spy during the 1940s and '50s who gained international notoriety when he blew his cover and defected to the USSR in 1963. But this fictional, unsophisticated, if not naive Read More

Memed, My Hawk

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Herbert Lom, Simon Dutton, Denis Quilley, Michael Elphick

Synopsis: This disappointing, pretentious farce by writer and director Peter Ustinov, who also stars as the incompetent but powerful Abki Aga, is based on a novel by Yashar Kemal about Memed (Simon Dutton) a man who escapes into the Turkish hills with the woman he loves (Leonie Mellinger), a woman already Read More

The Executioner's Song

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette, Eli Wallach, Christine Lahti, Steven Keats

Synopsis: Tommy Lee Jones won an Emmy for his searing performance as wanton killer Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song. The film covers the last nine months of Gilmore's life, beginning with his release from prison in 1976. Linking up with teen-age divorcee Nicole Baker (Rosanna Arquette), Gilmore makes Read More

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell

Synopsis: John Fowles' original novel The French Lieutenant's Woman was distinguished by a literary technique that involved telling a story of Victorian sexual and social oppression within the bounds of a 1970s viewpoint. How does one convey this time-frame dichotomy on film? The decision made by director Karel Reisz Read More

The Elephant Man

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller

Synopsis: John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as "The Elephant Man". Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen because of his inability to speak coherently. In fact, he is highly intelligent and sensitive, a fact made Read More

Legend of the Werewolf

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Cushing

Synopsis: Peter Cushing stars as a police investigator whose search into a series of murders--committed during the full moon--leads him to a French zoo run by a strange keeper. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Ghoul

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Cushing, John Hurt, Alexandra Bastedo, Gwen Watford, Veronica Carlson

Synopsis: England's Tigon studios produced fairly sophisticated period horror films in the 1970s, including this drawing-room horror-mystery directed by Hammer stalwart Freddie Francis. Peter Cushing stars as a former priest who harbors a dark and horrible secret in his attic. The locked room serves as a Read More

Craze

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Palance

Synopsis: Another slice of processed cheese from Herman Cohen, producer of Trog and other such wonders. This cheap occult programmer (ostensibly based on the novel Infernal Idol by Henry Seymour) stars Jack Palance as a demented art dealer & antique-shop owner who performs nightly rituals in honor of the Read More

Son of Dracula

Crew: Director

Actors: Harry Nilsson

Synopsis: Freddie Francis' Son of Dracula, not to be confused with the 1943 film featuring Lon Chaney, Jr., is a minor curiosity, an attempt at a comedic, modern-day vampire story that is most notable for its eccentric casting and pop soundtrack. The title role is played by singer and songwriter Harry Nilsson Read More

Tales That Witness Madness

Crew: Director

Actors: Joan Collins, Jack Hawkins, Peter McEnery, Kim Novak, Donald Pleasence, Mary Tamm, Russell Lewis

Synopsis: Essentially a reworking of their earlier omnibus Asylum, this is another anthology of pulp horror tales from Amicus, this one helmed by the ever-reliable Freddie Francis. It features a quartet of eerie vignettes involving four patients in the care of psychiatrist Dr. Tremayne (Donald Pleasence) Read More

The Creeping Flesh

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Peter Cushing delivers one of his finest hand-wringing performances as Emmanuel Hildern, a Victorian man of science who relates a mad tale of horror to his half-brother and professional rival James (Christopher Lee). His tale begins with the discovery of the weird skeletal remains of a large Read More

Tales from the Crypt

Crew: Director

Actors: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Patrick Magee, Ralph Richardson

Synopsis: The phenomenon of Tales from the Crypt seems to have no endings, only changes. This successful pun-filled style of presenting ironic horror tales had its beginnings in William Gaine's E.C. comic series. At one time, outlandish E.C. Comics were at the heart of a national furor over the "evils" of Read More

Vampire Happening

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Italian producer Pier A. Caminnecci went to Germany and hired British director Freddie Francis to make this vampire comedy starring his Scandinavian wife, Pia Dagermark (Elvira Madigan). The resultant international mish-mash is neither very scary nor very funny. Dagermark portrays Hollywood Read More

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny, and Girly

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Bryant, Ursula Howells, Pat Heywood, Trevor Howard, Vanessa Howard

Synopsis: A quartet of bizarre British blue bloods get their kicks by kidnapping male victims and bringing them to their estate in the country. After one man (Hugh Armstrong) is killed in an in-house chase, a local playboy (Michael Bryant) is blackmailed into coming to the house. The four fiends chase him Read More

Trog

Crew: Director

Actors: Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay, Kim Braden, David Griffin

Synopsis: Anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) believes she has discovered the missing link in this flat science fiction drama. The creature is found in a cave and brought to her laboratory to undergo tests for her research. The hairy beast with the face of a monkey loves classical music and hates Read More

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

Crew: Director

Actors: Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson, Barbara Ewing, Barry Andrews

Synopsis: When a young girl is found hanging in the local church with fang marks in her neck, the townsfolk immediately suspect Dracula (Christopher Lee) is behind the evil deed. Although he has supposedly been dead for quite some time, the vile vampire is the prime suspect. The Monsignor (Rupert Davies) is Read More

Torture Garden

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams, Peter Cushing, Michael Bryant

Synopsis: The Torture Garden is an "omnibus" chiller, adapted from four short stories by Robert Bloch (Psycho). Each is introduced by Burgess Meredith, playing a sinister carnival barker by the name of Dr. Diabolo. The doctor's audience consists of five people, four of whom are apprised of their ultimate Read More

The Deadly Bees

Crew: Director

Actors: Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman, Catherine Finn, John Harvey

Synopsis: Noted British horror director Freddie Francis and author Robert Bloch, who wrote Psycho, combined their talents for this tale of terror. Pop singer Vicki Robbins (Suzanna Leigh) collapses from exhaustion and takes a vacation on a small resort island. She soon meets Mr. Hargrove (Guy Doleman), a Read More

They Came from Beyond Space

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin, Bernard Kay, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In this sci-fi drama, an alien spaceship breaks down and crashes on the moon. These creatures need help to make repairs and so use their powers to possess a few scientists and use them as slaves. Unfortunately for them, one scientist has a metal plate in his head and cannot be controlled. It is he Read More

The Psychopath

Crew: Director

Actors: Patrick Wymark, Margaret Johnston, John Standing, Alexander Knox, Judy Huxtable

Synopsis: Though scripted by Psycho author Robert Bloch, this is neither a sequel nor a variant on the Alfred Hitchcock classic. Instead, we are presented with a more subdued British version of an Italian "giallo" thriller, as interpreted by acclaimed director Freddie Francis. The plot involves a pattern of Read More

Traitor's Gate

Crew: Director

Actors: Albert Lieven, Gary Raymond

Synopsis: Though based on an Edgar Wallace novel, Traitor's Gate was not part of the long-running British series of second features based on the works of Wallace. Albert Lieven plays a London businessman who doubles as a high-tech crook. He organizes an elite gang of thieves to steal the crown jewels. Their Read More

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Roy Castle, Donald Sutherland, Neil McCallum

Synopsis: Not to be confused with David Hewitt's abominable Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors (AKA The Blood Suckers), this clever horror omnibus is one of the better early anthologies from Amicus Productions, thanks to Freddie Francis' stylish direction and a tongue-in-cheek approach from writer Milton Subotsky Read More

The Skull

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Jill Bennett, Patrick Wymark

Synopsis: Adapted from the Robert Bloch short story "The Skull of the Marquis de Sade," this inventive gothic chiller from Amicus stars Peter Cushing as Professor Maitland, a collector obsessed with obtaining artifacts reputed to have occult powers -- including the title object, believed to be from the Read More

Night Must Fall

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Albert Finney, Susan Hampshire, Mona Washbourne, Sheila Hancock, Michael Medwin, Joe Gladwin

Synopsis: Albert Finney stars in this second film version of Emlyn Williams thriller about an innocent looking but psychopathic killer named Danny. Danny is a Welsh hotel bellboy who commits an axe murder near the home of Mrs. Bramson (Mona Washbourne), a well-to-do widow. Danny disposes of the body in a Read More

Hysteria

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne, Maurice Denham, Lelia Goldoni

Synopsis: While visiting England, an American tourist (Robert Webber) is involved in an auto accident and suffers from amnesia. Upon his release from the hospital, he recuperates in a home paid for by a mysterious benefactor, where a dead body later appears in the shower. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Evil of Frankenstein

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Cushing, Peter Woodthorpe, Duncan Lamont, James Maxwell, Sandor Eles, Katy Wild, Kiwi Kingston

Synopsis: Hardly the best of Hammer Studios' Frankenstein epics, The Evil of Frankenstein is too much the mixture as before to be truly memorable. Back in business once more is Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing), who finds his fabled monster (Kiwi Kingston) frozen in a block of ice. Once the creature is Read More

Paranoiac

Crew: Director

Actors: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Liliane Brousse, Alexander Davion, Maurice Denham, Sheila Burrell

Synopsis: A woman must contend with her family's madness as she finds her own sanity in doubt in this thriller from British horror masters Hammer Films. After the death of her parents, Eleanor Ashby (Janette Scott) would seem a safe bet to inherit their estate, but at the funeral, she's convinced that she Read More

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: The Horsemasters: Follow Your Heart

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk, Janet Munro, Tony Britton, John Fraser

Synopsis: In the first episode of Walt Disney's two-part miniseries The Horsemasters, the viewer is whisked of to England's prestigious Valleywood Riding School, a training ground for future riding instructors. The head of the riding academy, Janet Hale (Janet Munro), greets her new pupils in her usual Read More

Nightmare

Crew: Director

Actors: David Knight, Moira Redmond, Brenda Bruce, Jennie Linden, George A. Cooper

Synopsis: Legendary cinematographer (Freddie Francis) directed this Hammer horror film of madness and murder. The story concerns young Janet (Jennie Linden), a student at finishing school who is suffering from a series of recurring nightmares, having witnessed her mother stabbing her father to death. When Read More

The Brain

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This third film version of the Curt Siodmak scare piece Donovan's Brain stars Peter Van Eyck as an overly dedicated scientist. When a powerful and ruthless financier dies in a plane crash, Van Eyck keeps the tycoon's brain alive in his laboratory. Gradually, the brain takes over the doctor's mind Read More

A Change of Heart

Crew: Director

Actors: George Chakiris, Janette Scott, Alfred Lynch, Jackie Lane, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a free-wheeling member of the U.S. Air Force goes AWOL. While traveling, the man and his girlfriend encounter another young couple. Both men are dressed exactly alike and are driving the same kind of bike. When the women climb aboard the wrong bikes, romantic mayhem Read More

The Horsemasters

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Annette Funicello, Janet Munro, Tommy Kirk, Donald Pleasence, Tony Britton

Synopsis: Produced for television and released as a European feature, this Disney adventure stars Annette Funicello as a would-be equestrian who must conquer her fears of jumping. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker, Norman Rossington

Synopsis: "All I want is a good time. The rest is propaganda." That's the philosophy of archetypal British "angry young man" Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney). A middle-class working stiff in a dead-end job, Arthur's principal goal in life is to survive the work week, then spend the weekend raising as much hell Read More

The Innocents

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Megs Jenkins, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens, Michael Redgrave, Peter Wyngarde

Synopsis: In this lugubrious but brilliantly realized adaptation of Henry James' classic novella The Turn of the Screw, 19th century British governess Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) arrives at a bleak mansion to take care of Flora (Pamela Franklin) and Miles (Martin Stephens), the wealthy household's two Read More

Sons and Lovers

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure, Heather Sears

Synopsis: The Motion Picture Production Code was still in effect (albeit weakly) when Sons and Lovers was filmed in 1960, so don't expect a thoroughly frank and faithful adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel. Set in an English mining town, the film focuses on Paul Morel (Dean Stockwell), the sensitive son Read More

The Battle of the Sexes

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Jameson Clark, Ernst Thesiger

Synopsis: In this 1959 comedy, Robert MacPherson (Robert Morley) inherits his family's textile business in Edinburgh, Scotland, then hires American efficiency expert Angela Barrows (Constance Cummings) to bring the business into the modern age. The House of MacPherson has long been known as a manufacturer Read More

Never Take Candy From A Stranger

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis, Alison Leggatt

Synopsis: Set in Canada, this nasty little fable is about a respectable village elder (Patrick Allen) who is also a sexual deviate. Using candy as bait, he persuades two little girls to dance naked for him. When the girls complain to their parents, the old man is taken to court, but his prestige in town Read More

Strange Affection

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: An abused boy stands accused of killing his drunken father in this British drama. Fortunately two compassionate neighbors take him in and help to prove his innocence. The film is also called Scamp. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Room at the Top

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston, Ambrosine Phillpotts

Synopsis: Ruthless young working-class Englishman Laurence Harvey takes a job in a North Country village controlled by millionaire Donald Wolfit. Harvey resents Wolfit's class consciousness and vows to rise to the top by wooing the millionaire's daughter, Heather Sears. Meanwhile he has an affair with Read More

Virgin Island

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Cassavetes, Virginia Maskell, Sidney Poitier, Isabel Dean, Colin Gordon

Synopsis: Based on Robb White's novel 3DOur Virgin Island3D (the film's original title), this harmless location-filmed comedy boasts an unusually impressive cast. With their combined life savings of $85, fiercely independent archeologist Evan (John Cassavetes) and his wife Tina (Virginia Maskell) purchase Read More

Next to No Time

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kenneth More, Betsy Drake, Bessie Love, Harry Green, Patrick Barr

Synopsis: In his all too brief life, director Henry Cornelius became the principal standard-bearer of genteel whimsy in British films. Cornelius' Next to No Time (based on a story by Paul Gallico) stars Kenneth More as a milquetoast engineer who has lost a lot of professional and personal opportunities Read More

Time Without Pity

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Peter Cushing, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: Time Without Pity carried the name "Joseph Losey" on the credits -- the first time in three years that the blacklisted director was permitted to use his own name on a film. This British-made suspense film was based on a play by Emlyn Williams. Michael Redgrave stars an anguished father whose son (Alec McCowan Read More

Hell in Korea

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: George Baker, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Ronald Lewis

Synopsis: Filmed in Surrey, England, Hell in Korea was shipped out to more conservative movie houses as A Hill in Korea. The title essentially tells all in this no-nonsense account of a group of UN soldiers during the Korean "police action" of the early 1950s. This "skeleton" patrol maintains its tenuous Read More

Moby Dick

Crew: Camera Operator, Cinematographer

Actors: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Harry Andrews, Seamus Kelly, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Previous film versions of Moby Dick insisted upon including such imbecilities as romantic subplots and happy endings. John Huston's 1956 Moby Dick remains admirably faithful to its source. "Call me Ishmael" declares itinerant whaler Richard Basehart as the opening credits fade. Though slightly Read More

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Crew: Camera Operator

Synopsis: In 1799, Johann Wolfgang Goethe penned a poem called The Sorcerer's Apprentice that was based upon a much earlier tale by the Greek poet Lucian. This poem served as the basis for a popular classical piece by Paul Dukas, as well as for this ballet version, staged at Opera Frankfurt and filmed in Read More

Beat the Devil

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart's associates include pompous fraud Robert Morley, and Peter Lorre as the German-accented "O'Hara", whose wartime record is forever a source of speculation and suspicion. Becoming Read More

Moulin Rouge

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Suzanne Flon, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Katherine Kath, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records his frustration over his physical handicap (the growth in his legs was stunted by a childhood accident), his efforts to "lose" himself in Paris' bawdy Montmartre district Read More

The Tales of Hoffmann

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Robert Helpmann, Pamela Brown, Frederick Ashton

Synopsis: Most baby-boomers are familiar with the Powell-Pressburger production of the Offenbach opera Tales of Hoffman only through the full-color stills from the film which were reproduced in the "Motion Picture" section of The World Book Encyclopedia. If this is your only memory of the film, we advise Read More

The Wild Heart

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Esmond Knight, Sybil Thorndike, Edward Chapman

Synopsis: The brooding British romantic drama Gone to Earth is better known by its American title The Wild Heart. Filmed in England and cofinanced by David O. Selznick and Alexander Korda, the film stars Jennifer Jones (Mrs. Selznick) as Hazel Woodus, a tempestuous Welsh gypsy maid who can't seem to stay Read More

The Golden Salamander

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Trevor Howard, Herbert Lom, Miles Malleson, Walter Rilia

Synopsis: In this adventure, an archaeologist is working at a Tunisian dig and having a passionate affair with a local girl when he finds himself entangled with a murderous band of arms smugglers. The story is based on one of Victor Canning's novels. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Elusive Pimpernel

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack, Robert Coote, David Hutcheson

Synopsis: In this costume adventure set in France during the Reign of Terror, a mysterious man known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel rescues noblemen from the guillotine and leads them to safety across the English Channel. Chauvelin (Cyril Cusack) is determined to unmask the Pimpernel and bring him to Read More

The Small Back Room

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack, Michael Gough, Leslie Banks

Synopsis: In 1948, "The Archers" -- the writing and directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger -- had completed The Red Shoes, one of their greatest international successes, but it had yet to be released when the Rank Organization, doubting the commercial appeal of the picture, severed ties Read More

Mine Own Executioner

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray, Michael Shepley, Christine Norden, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: London psychiatrist Burgess Meredith takes on the case of schizophrenic ex-POW Kieron Moore. So long as Meredith is diligent in his approach, Moore shows signs of improvement, and a lessening of his more violent tendencies. But the moment Meredith takes too much for granted, Moore goes off the Read More

The Macomber Affair

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gregory Peck, Robert Preston, Joan Bennett, Reginald Denny, Carl Harbord

Synopsis: When a man dies under suspicious circumstances, the law must decide if it was murder or an accident. Francis Macomber (Robert Preston) is a wealthy, carefree gentleman who hires Robert Wilson (Gregory Peck), an expert hunter, as his guide when he sets off on a safari in Kenya. Francis' wife Read More