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A delightful and wholly unexpected murder mystery, British writer/director Sidney Gilliat's Green for Danger features Trevor Howard and Sally Gray as suspected doctors and Alastair Sim in a marvelous turn as Scotland Yard's insouciant Inspector Cockrill. A screenwriter who had worked with Hitchcock on such films as The Lady Vanishes and Jamaica ...
She Played with Fire: Directed by Sidney Gilliat. With Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price, Violet Farebrother. An insurance investigator runs into an ex-girlfriend, who is still as beautiful as he remembered her, but is now married.
From the 1940s to the mid 1960s, Sidney Gilliat and his film-making partner Frank Launder carved a distinctive niche in British cinema, offering middle-brow entertainments stamped with intelligence, an impish wit, and a close regard for the quirks of British life.
Oct 5, 1972 · Endless Night: Directed by Sidney Gilliat. With Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson. A working-class young Englishman marries an affable American heiress, but their marital bliss is soon interrupted when they begin constructing a home on land alleged to be cursed.
Sidney Gilliat was a British film director, producer and writer. Filmography. With Hitchcock... The Lady Vanishes (1938) — writer: screen play (as Sidney Gilliatt) Jamaica Inn (1939) — writer: dialogue and screen play; Other works... Night Train to Munich (1940) — screenplay; Documentaries. He has appeared in the following Hitchcockian ...
Frank Launder. Writer: The Blue Lagoon. Frank Launder, initially a civil servant and repertory actor, started as a scriptwriter in the late 1920s on such classics as The Lady Vanishes (1938) and Night Train to Munich (1940). He joined forces with Sidney Gilliat and together they wrote, directed and produced over 40 films. Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat are well-known for their St. Trinian's films, among many others.
Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer. He was the son of George Gilliat, editor of the Evening Standard from 1928 to 1933. Sidney was born in the district of Edgeley in Stockport, Cheshire. In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably with Frank Launder on The Lady Vanishes (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock, and Night Train to Munich (1940), directed by Carol Reed. He and Launder made their directorial debut co-directing the ...
