Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (1950)

FOREICN PRODUCTIONS 1949 1013 Klardmann. Music score, Wolfang Zeller. Edited by Alice Ludwig. CAST — Use Steppat, Paul Klinger, Alfred Balthoff. Will Praeer, Claus Holm, L. Firmans. SUMMARY — Actor married to Jewish wife faces prosecution during Hitler regime. Finally they comit joint suicide. Reviewed 5-19149. MIRANDA I British l Sydney Box-Rank-EL. Producer, Betty Box. Director, Ken Annakin. Screenplay. Peter Blackmore, from his own stage play. Photography, Ray Elton. Art direction, George Paterson. Music score, Temple Abady. Musical director, Muir Mathieson. Edited by Cordon Hales. Production manager, Fred Cunn. CAST — Clynis |ohns, Coogie Withers, Griffith Jones, John McCallum, David Tomlinson, Sonia Holm, Yvonne Owen, Margaret Rutherford, Susan Shaw, Zena Marshall. SUMMARY — Mermaid meets fisherman; he promises to take her to London for one month. There he tries to convince wife mermaid is paralyzed from waist down and needs his care. She sings in Covent Garden, becomes toast of London and men before returning to seahome. Reviewed 1-11-49. MONSIEUR VINCENT (French I E.D.I.C.-U.C.C.-Lopert. Director, Maurice Cloche. Original screenplay, Jean Bernard-Luc, Jean Anouilh, based on life of St. Vincent De Paul. English titles, Herman G. Weinberg. Photography, Claude Renoir, Art direction, Rene Renoux, Music score. Jacques Grunenwald. CAST — Pierre Fresnay, Aime Clariond, Jean DeBucourt, Lise DeLamare, Germaine Dermoz, Yvonne Godeau, Gabrielle Dorziat. SUMMARY — Humbly born French priest who fled ease and luxury in the 17th century to struggle against disease, cruelty, prejudice; first great social reformer. Reviewed 4-11-49. MURDERERS AMONG US (German) Defa Prod.-Artkino. Director-original screenplay, Wolfgang Staudte. Photography, Friedl Behn-Grund, Eugen Klagemann. Art direction, Otto Hunte. Music score, Ernst Roters. CAST — Hildegarde Neff, Ernst Borchert, Amo Paulsen. Erne Sellmer, Robert Forsch, Albert Johann. SUMMARY — War's aftermath brings woman from concentration camp to find doctor, occupying her apartment, wasting his life and talents. She brings him to himself. Reviewed 2-3-49. MY BROTHER JONATHAN (British I Associated British-Allied Artists. Producer, Warwick Ward. Director, Harold French. Screenplay, Leslie L. Landau. Adrian Alington. Original novel, Francis Brett Young. Photography, Derick Williams. Art direction, Douglas Daniels. Musical director-score, Hans May. Edited by Charles Hasse. Sound techn ician, Cecil V. Thornton. Production manager, William Whittaker. Assistant directors, Jack Martin, Gus Agosti. Hair stylist, A. G. Scott. Makeup Henry Hayward. Costumes designed by J. Cower Parks. CAST — Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Ronald Howard, Stephen Murray, Mary Clare, Finlay Currie, Beatrice Campbell, Arthur Young, Beatrice Varley, ). Robertson-Justice, James Hayter, Jessica Spencer, John Salew, Peter Murray, Wylie Watson, Hilda Bayley, Josephine Stuart, R. Stuart Lindsell. SUMMARY — Having married ex-sweetheart because she's about to bear dead no-good brother's child, sacrificing doctor is left with baby son when Mother dies. He then marries his real love, after conflict between doctors' in mining town. Doctor tells soldier son story in flash back. Reviewed 4-4-49. MY LAST MISTRESS I French) S. Cuitry-Leo Cohen. Director, Marcel Rischmann. Photography, Bourgassof. Art direction, Menessier and Quignon. CAST — Sacha Guitry, Genevieve Guitry, Mona Goya, Aime Clariond, Pasquali, Lily Parely, Marguerite Moreno, Maurice Taynac, Georges Lamaire SUMMARY — Night life in Paris with actor trying to make his wife think him unfaithful to stimulate her acting. Reviewed 1949. ONE WOMAN'S STORY ( British ) C i n eg u i Id R a n k U I . Producer, Ronald Neame. Asociate producer, Norman Spencer. Director, David Lean. Screenplay, Eric Ambler. Original novel, "The Passionate Friends" by H. G. Wells. Adaption, David Lean, Stanley Haynes. Photography, Oswald Morris. Production design, John Bryan. Set decorations, Claude Manusey. Edited by Jack Harris, Geoff Foot. Sound technician, F. C. Hughesdon. Assistant director, George Pollock. Hair stylist, Betty Baugh. Makeup, Ernie Gasser. Costumes designed by Margaret Furse. CAST — Ann Todd, Claude Raines, Trevor Howard, Isabel Dean, Betty Ann Davies, Helen Spiers, Ina Pellen, John Huson, John Unwin, Max Earl, Frances Waring, Jean Serrett, Arthur Howard, Wanda Rogerson, Marcel Poncin, Natasha Solkolva, Helen Burls. SUMMARY — Triangle between prominent government banker, his wife and professor, with banker twice breaking up plans for two to run away together— 2nd time 8 years after first. Reviewed 6-16-49. OUTCRY (Italian) Crest. Director, Aldo Vergano. Original screenplay, Guido Aristarco, Carlo Lizzani, Guiseppe Desantis. English titles, Herman Weinberg. Photography, Aldo Tonti. CAST — Lea Padovani, Elli Parvo, Vittorio Dusse, Hassimo Serrato, Egisto Olivieri, Marco Sarri, Lia Golhar, Carlo Lizzani. SUMMARY — Ex-Italian soldier joins partisans, has affair with daughter of Countess, then falls in love with girl with partisans. Acting against Nazis, partisans kill Nazi major and all his men. Reviewed 10 3-49. PASSPORT TO PIMLICO (British) Rank. Producer, Michael Balcon. Director, Henry Cornelius. Original screenplay, T. E. B. Clarke. Photography, Lionel Banes. Art direction, Ray Oxley. Music score, George Auric. Musical director, Ernest Irving. Edited by Michael Truman. CAST — Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, Margaret Rutherford, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis, John Slater, Jane Hylton, Raymond Huntley, Philip Stainton, Roy Carr, Sidney Tafler, Nancy Gabrielle, Malcolm Knight, Roy Gladdish, Frederick Piper, Charles Hawtrey, Stuart Lindsell, Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford. Gilbert Davis, Michael Hordern, Arthur Howard, Bill Shine, Harry Locke, am Kydd, Joey Carr, Lloyd Pearson, Arthur Denton, Tommy Godfrey, James Hyater, Masoni, Fred Griffiths, Grace Arnold, Paul Demel. SUMMARY — Accidental bomb explosion in London district discloses treasure and documents saying district given to Burgundians; they all decide to be Burgundians — until diplomatic and immigration difficulties bring them back to British fold. Reviewed 11 1-49. PEDDLIN IN SOCIETY (Italian) LUX. Director, G. Righelli. English titles, Clare Catalano. Photography, Aldo Tonti. Art direction. Gabriele Varriale. Music score, E. Montagnini. CAST — Anna Magnani, Vittorio De Sica, Virgilio Riento, Laura Gore, Zora Piazza, Laura Gazzolo, Vito Chiaro. SUMMARY — Sudden wealth causes characters to go over-board in their endeavor to be "artistocracy." After crooks make off with money, all concerned returned to their normal way of life — simple and poor. Reviewed 1949. THE PIRATES OF CAPRI (Italian) Monrer & Pahlen-AFAICSFILM CLASSICS. Producer-original idea, Victor Pahlen. Director, Edgar Ulmer. Screenplay, Sidney Alexander. Original, G. A. Colonna, George Moser. Photography. Anchise Brizzi. Art direction, Guido Fiorini. Music score, Nina Rota. Sound technician, Trentino. Assistant directors, Golfiero Colonna, Giorgio Moser. Makeup, Guglieimo Bonetti. Costumes designed by Dario Cecchi, Maria Baroni. CAST — Louis Hayward, Binnie Barnes. Alan Curtis, Rudolph Serato, Mariella Lotti, Mikhail Rasumny, Virginia Belmont, Franca Marzi, William Tubbs, Alberto Califano, Mario Auritano, Eric Culton, Michel Sorel. SUMMARY — Revolution in Italy in 1779 fostered by court Dandy who pretends to be in love with