British actor Leo Britt is best remembered as the storyteller at a party in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, which was what type of film?
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Leo Britt Leo Britt (27 March 1908 – 1979) was a British actor. He made about 40 film and television appearances between 1933 and 1975, both in England and the United States. He is perhaps best-remembered as the storyteller at a party in Alfred Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder" (1955). One of his last film roles was General James Scarlett in the historical drama "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1968).
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Dial M for Murder Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings and John Williams. It was filmed in 3-D with the technology that was available at the time, and is often considered one of the greatest 3D films ever made. The screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were written by English playwright Frederick Knott. The play premiered in 1952 on BBC Television, before being performed on stage in the same year in London's West End in June, and then New York's Broadway in October. The movie was released by Warner Bros., though due to the then-waning popularity of 3D films, it was converted to 2D, and only showed in its native 3D format in a small handful of cinemas.
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The Riverside Murder The Riverside Murder is a 1935 British crime film directed by Albert Parker and starring Basil Sydney, Judy Gunn and Zoe Davis. A woman reporter helps an inspector solve the deaths of four financiers on the eve of a group shareout. Based on "Les Six Hommes Morts" (Editions du Masque) by Stanislas-André Steeman.
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Compromising Daphne Compromising Daphne is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Jean Colin, Phyllis Konstam, C.M. Hallard and Viola Compton. It was also released under the alternative title Compromised! and was based on a play by Edith Fitzgerald. The film was produced by the leading British company of the era British International Pictures at their Elstree Studios with sets designed by John Mead.
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Speaking of Murder Speaking of Murder is a 1957 French crime film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin. The original French title is Le rouge est mis, which means "the red light is on". The screenplay is based on a novel by Auguste Le Breton.
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Witness to Murder Witness to Murder is a 1954 suspense film starring Barbara Stanwyck. While the film received moderately positive reviews, it ended up as an also-ran to Alfred Hitchcock's somewhat similar "Rear Window", which opened less than a month later. The latter picture was a box-office hit.
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Alias Jimmy Valentine Alias Jimmy Valentine was a 1928 American crime drama film directed by Jack Conway, and starring William Haines, Leila Hyams, Lionel Barrymore, and Karl Dane. The film is based on the O. Henry story "A Retrieved Reformation", which was turned into the 1910 play "Alias Jimmy Valentine" by Paul Armstrong. The play toured in travelling production companies making it extremely popular. It was revived on Broadway in 1921.
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Madeleine (1950 film) Madeleine is a 1950 film directed by David Lean, based on a true story about Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family who was tried in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier. The trial was much publicized in the newspapers of the day and labeled "the trial of the century". Lean's adaptation of the story stars his then-wife, Ann Todd, with Ivan Desny as her French lover. Norman Wooland played the respectable suitor and Leslie Banks the authoritarian father—both of whom are unaware of Madeleine's secret life.
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The Lady Vanishes The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder based on the 1936 novel "The Wheel Spins" by Ethel Lina White, the film is about a beautiful English tourist travelling by train in continental Europe who discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to have disappeared from the train. After her fellow passengers deny ever having seen the elderly lady, the young woman is helped by a young musicologist, the two proceeding to search the train for clues to the old lady's disappearance.
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Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde is a 1971 British film directed by Roy Ward Baker based on the novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and was their third adaptation of the story after "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll". The film is notable for showing Jekyll transform into a female Hyde; it also incorporates into the plot aspects of the historical Jack the Ripper and Burke and Hare cases. The two characters were played by the film's stars, Ralph Bates and Martine Beswick.
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French Dressing (1964 film) French Dressing is a 1964 British comedy film directed by Ken Russell, his first feature film, which stars James Booth, Roy Kinnear and Marisa Mell. Its plot concerns a deckchair attendant in the run-down seaside resort of Gormleigh-on-Sea who is promoted to publicity officer. In an effort to drum up interest in the town he organises a film festival and invites a major French film star. The event is soon thrown into chaos by the machinations of jealous mayors from rival towns.
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The Night of the Party The Night of the Party is a 1934 British mystery thriller film directed by Michael Powell and starring Leslie Banks, Ian Hunter, Jane Baxter, Ernest Thesiger and Malcolm Keen. In the United States it was released as The Murder Party. It was made at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush. The art direction was by Alfred Junge, later a regular contributor to the films of Powell and Pressburger.
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Norah Baring Norah Baring (26 November 1905 – 8 February 1985), born Nora Minnie Baker, was an English film actress most famous for portraying "Diana Baring" in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Murder!" (1930). She is also known for playing the female lead in Anthony Asquith's silent thriller "A Cottage on Dartmoor" (1929). Baring studied art prior to becoming an actress.
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Murder Anonymous Murder Anonymous is a 1955 British crime short film directed by Ken Hughes and featuring Edgar Lustgarten, Peter Arne and Jill Bennett. It is perhaps most notable for an early appearance by Arthur Lowe, later to become famous as Captain Manwairing in "Dad's Army", who plays a fingerprint expert.
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The Shooting Party The Shooting Party is a 1985 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges and based on the book of the same name by Isabel Colegate. The film is set in 1913 and shows the way of life of English aristocrats, gathered for pheasant shooting and general self-indulgence. Their way of life is contrasted with the local rural poor, who serve as 'beaters', driving the game for the aristocrats to shoot. It was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.
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Fun With the Bridal Party Fun With the Bridal Party (French: Le Mariage de Thomas Poirot ) was a 1908 French silent comedy film directed by Georges Méliès.
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Murder at Covent Garden Murder at Covent Garden is a 1932 British crime film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Dennis Neilson-Terry, Anne Grey, George Curzon and Walter Fitzgerald. It was made at Twickenham Studios. The screenplay involves a detective who investigates the murder of a night club owner.
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The Night Porter (1930 film) The Night Porter is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Sewell Collins and starring Donald Calthrop, Trilby Clark and Gerald Rawlinson. The film was made by Gaumont British Picture Corporation, an affiliate of Gainsborough Pictures, at the Lime Grove Studios with sets designed by Andrew Mazzei. It was based on a popular music hall sketch by Fred Rome and Harry Wall depicting a honeymooning couple and the hotel night porter they encounter.
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Wilt (film) Wilt is a 1989 film adaptation by LWT of the Tom Sharpe novel of the same name. The story follows the comic misadventures of the eponymous Henry Wilt as he is accused of the murder of his wife when she suddenly goes missing after a party at a friend's house where they have a very public argument.
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Frederick Knott Frederick Major Paull Knott (28 August 1916 — 17 December 2002) was an English playwright known for his ingeniously complex, crime-related plots. Though he was a reluctant writer and completed only three plays in his career, two have become classics: the London-based stage thriller "Dial M for Murder", which was later filmed in Hollywood by Alfred Hitchcock, and the chilling 1966 play "Wait Until Dark", which also became a Hollywood film.
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London Blues London Blues is a novel by Anthony Frewin first published in 1997 about Soho in the late 1950s and early 1960s and in particular about the early days of pornographic movie production in Britain. "London Blues" is a mystery novel in that it describes not just the dangerous life but also the disappearance of a young photographer in the wake of the Profumo affair.
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Act of Murder (film) Act of Murder is a 1964 British crime drama film, directed by Alan Bridges. One of the "Edgar Wallace Mysteries" series, it was Bridges' first film as director.