Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (1950)

FOREIGN PRODUCTIONS 1949 101 1 CAST — Imperio Argentina, Enrique Diosdado, Amadeo Novoa, Ricardo Canales, Manolito Diaz. SUMMARY — Flight, caused by spurned lover's song, brings Argentina to inn where she helps proprietor, whose wife had recently died, to success. Complications brought on when spurned lover finds her; he is killed — she marries inn proprietor. Reviewed 1949. DON'T TAKE IT TO HEART (British) Rank-EL. Producer, Sydney Box. Directororiginal screenplay, Jeffrey Dell. Photography, Eric Cross. Art direction, Alec Vetchinsky. Music score, Mischa Spoliansky. CAST — Richard Greene, Patricia Medina, Wylie Watson. Brefni O'Rorke, Edward Rigby, Richard Bird, Esma Cannon, Ivor Barnard, Patric Curwen, Margaret Withers, Harry Fowler, Alfred Drayton, ]oan Hickson, Claude Dampier, George Merritt. SUMMARY — The people try to get back use of the Common of which they have been deprived for 400 years. Ghost helps out attorney who proves Lord, keeping people from Common, is really commoner, and proacher is Lord. Reviewed 3-14-49. EASY MONEY i British) Cainsborough-Rank-EL. Producers, Sydney Box, A. Frank Bundy. Director, Bernard Knowles. Original screenplay, Muriel and Sydney Box, Photography, Jack Asher. Art direction, Cedric Dawe. CAST — Jack Warner, Marjorie Fielding, Yvonne Owen, Jack Watling, Petula Clark, Mabel Constanduros, David Tomlinson, Maurice Denham, Mervyn Johns, Joan Young, Gordon McLeod, David Home, Gray Blake, Greta Gynt, Dennis Price, Bill Owen, Frederick Piper, Jack Raine, Dennis Hardin, John Bluthe, Freddie Carpenter, Edward Rigby, Guy Rolfe, Raymond Lovell, Frank Cellier. SUMMARY — Four separate plays telling of results of winning of too prize money in football pools. Reviewed 11-22-49. THE FACTS OF LOVE (British) Sidney Box. Producer, Sydney Box. Associate producer, Compton Bennett. Director, Henry Cass. Screenplay, Muriel and Sydney Box. Original, Denis and Mabel Constanduros. Photography, Ernest Palmer, Nigel Huke. Art direction, James Carter. Music score, Clifton Parker. Musical director, Muir Mathieson. Edited by Julian Wintle. CAST — Gordon Harker, Betty Balfour, Jimmy Hanley, Carla Lehman, Hubert Gregg, Jill Evans, Henry Kendall, Dinah Sheridan, Megs Jenkins, Noele Gordon, Guy Middleton. SUMMARY — Son and daughter of family get into love scrapes when parents start off on vacation alone. Reviewed 12-21-49. THE FALLEN IDOL l British I London Film-SRO. Producer-director, Carol Reed. Asociate producer, Phil Brandon. Screenplay, Graham Greene. Original short story, Graham Greene. Additional dialog, Lesley Storm, William Templeton. Photography, Georges Perinal. Special effects, W. Percy Day. Operating cameraman, Dennis Coop. Art direction, Vincent Korda, James Sawyer. Music score, William Alwyn. Edited by Oswald Haf enrichter. Sound, John Cox, Bert Ross, Red Law. Production manager, Hugh Perceval. Assistant director, Guy Hamilton. Script, Peggy McClafferty. Hair stylist, J. Shear. Makeup, Dorrie Hamilton. CAST — Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Bobby Henrey, Sonia Dresdel, Denis O'Dea, Walter Fitzgerald, Karel Stepanek, Joan Young, Danby Nichols, Bernard Lee, Jack Hawkins, Geoffrey Keene, Hay Petrie, James Hayter, John Rudock, Thorin Thatcher, George Woodbridge, Dora Bryan, Gerald Hmze, Nora Gordon, Ethel Coleridge, Ralph Norman, James Swan. SUMMARY — Embassy butler and housekeeper, in charge of small boy who adores butler but hates his wife. Butler, in love with Morgan, wants divorce. Wife catches them together; in ensuing scene falls from window and is killed. Husband accused tho innocent; boy, thinking him guilty, fabricates story to cover him, confusing issue. Reviewed 11-17-49. FAME IS THE SPUR (British I Oxford-Two Cities. Producer, John Boulting. Director, Roy Boulting. Screenplay, Nigel Bal chin. Original novel, Howard Spring. Photography, Gunther Krampf. Music score, John Woodbridge. Production manager, F. Del Giudice. CAST — Anthony Wager, Brian Weske, Gerald Fox, Jean Shepheard, Guy Verny, Percy Walsh, Michael Redgrave, Rosemund John, Bernard Miles, Carla Lehman, Hugh Burden, Sir Seymour Hicks, David Tomlinson, Marjorie Fielding, Charles Wood, Milton Rosmer, Wylie Watson. SUMMARY — Political rise of working man to Cabinet post causes f orgetf ulness of family, friends and honor. Reviewed 1949. THE CERMANS STRIKE AGAIN 'Creek) FinosHelbanco. Producer, Union of Participating Artists. Director, Alecos Sakellariou. English titles, Euthalie V. Starks. Photography, PhotoArco. Music score, Costas Yiannidis. Sound technician, George Kriadis. CAST — Basil Logothetidid, Costas Tsaganeas, Elia Livikou, Nitsa Tsaganea, Maria Smirnaki, Georgia Vassi llious. SUMMARY — Middle of the road Greek, after the war, dreams the Germans have returned. They put him in institution, etc. and he is relieved when he awakens to find it only a dream — he becomes proGreek. Reviewed 1949. CERMANY YEAR ZERO (Italian) Superfilm Dist. Producer-director, Robert Rossellini. Original screenplay, Roberto Rossellini, Max Colpet. English titles, Charles Clement. Photography, Robert J ui I lard . Operating camerman, Jacques Robin. Edited by Mme. Findeisen. CAST — Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraude Hinze, Franz Crueger, Edmund Meschke, Erich Guhne. SUMMARY — Drama of Berlin in early days of occupation, showing tragic life of 1 2 year old boy who becomes thief, seducer and finally, after murdering father, kills himself. Reviewed 12-16-49. THE GIRL IN THE PAINTING (British) Rank-Cainsborough-UI. Producer, Anthony Darnborough. Director, Terence Fisher. Screenplay, Frank Harvey, Jr., Muriel and Sydney Box. Original, David Evans. Photography, Jack Asher. Art direction, John Elphick. Music score, Benjamin Frankel. Musical directior, Muir Mathieson. CAST — Mai Zetterling, Robert Beatty, Guy Rolfe, Herbert Lorn, Patrick Holt, Arnold Marie, Sybilla Binder, George Thorpe, Gerard Heinz, Philco Hauser, Thora Hird. SUMMARY — Exhibit of painting leads professor to believe girl is actually his daughter. Learns girl is daughter of another man. Suspicion causes him to further investigate only to confirm hope and find that supposed father is actually top-Nazi. Reviewed 1 1-18-49. THE GIRLS IN SMALAND (Swedish) Scandia Films, Inc. Director, Schamyl Bauman. Original screenplay, Rude Waldecrantz, Ragner Arvedson, Schamyl Bauman. Photography, Hilmer Exdahl. Music score, Gunnar Johanson. CAST — Sickan Carlsson, Ake Gronberg, Sigge Furst, John Elfstrom, Rut Holm, Carl Reinholds. Ruth Kasdan, Douglas Hagge, Garin Swenson, Artur Rolen, Minni Lofberg, Ingrid Ostergren, Kolbjern Knudsen, Nils Hallberg, Victor Haak. SUMMARY — Farmhand, quite a hand with women, becomes enamored of his boss, woman farm owner, as well as gypsy. Latter causes complications which he straightens out and marries boss. Reviewed 9-21-49. THE COLDEN MADONNA (British) Stafford-MONO. Producer, John Stafford. Director, Ladislas Vajda. Screenplay, Akos Tolnay. Original, Dorothy Hope. Adaptation, Aime Stuart, Dudley Lesley. Photography, Anchise Brizzi, Otello Martelli. Music score, Ferdinando Lunghi. Edited by Carmen Beliaeff. Sound technician, W. Taylor. Assistant director, L. Carpentieri. Still man, Francis Goodman, A. Zasselli. CAST — Phyllis Calvert, Michael Rennie, Tullio Carminati, David Greene. Aldo Silvani, Franco Coop, Pippe "Paisan" Bonucci, Franceses Biondi, Claudio Ermelli. SUMMARY — Drought, which peasantry feel could have been relieved if painting of Golden Madonna