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Writer-director team who enlivened three decades of British cinema. Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat made such a huge contribution to over three decades of British cinema that it's surprising that they should be so neglected in comparison with contemporaries such as David Lean, Michael Powell and the creators of the great Ealing comedies.
95 minutes. Country. United Kingdom. Language. English. Left Right and Centre is a 1959 British satirical comedy film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Ian Carmichael, Patricia Bredin, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker and Alastair Sim. It was produced by Frank Launder. [1] [2] A political comedy, it follows the events of a by-election in a ...
GILLIAT, SidneySeeLAUNDER, Frank, and Sidney GILLIAT Source for information on Gilliat, Sidney: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers dictionary.
The film was directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, who were an established writing team, credited with such films as The Lady Vanishes (1938) and Night Train to Munich (1940). It is one of three wartime films that Gilliat directed during WWII - the others being Two Thousand Women (1944) and Waterloo Road (1945).
The Great Manhunt: Directed by Sidney Gilliat. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Walter Rilla. In post-WW2 Europe, when the dictator of a small police state dies during surgery, the operating surgeon, who's a visiting American doctor, is held captive in order to preserve the terrible state secret.
Green for Danger is a 1946 British thriller film, based on the 1944 detective novel of the same name by Christianna Brand. It was directed by Sidney Gilliat and stars Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Rosamund John, Leo Genn, and Alastair Sim. The film was shot at Pinewood Studios in England. The title is a reference to the colour-coding used on the ...
Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat - Director. LAUNDER. Nationality: British. Born: Hitchin, Hertfordshire, 1906. Education: Brighton. Family: Married actress Bernadette O'Farrell, 1950. Career: Civil servant, then actor, in Brighton; studio assistant, 1928; first collaboration with fellow writer Sidney Gilliat, 1935; with Gilliat, wrote radio ...
