Stan Brakhage and Frank Powell are known for what kind of films?
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Frank Powell Frank E. Powell was a stage and silent film actor, screenwriter, and director in the United States. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Stan Brakhage James Stanley Brakhage ( ; January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003), better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film.
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The Queen's Guards (film) The Queen's Guards is a 1961 military drama film directed by Michael Powell from a script by Simon Harcourt-Smith and Roger Milner. It stars Daniel Massey, Raymond Massey, Robert Stephens, and Ursula Jeans.
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Blanche Fury Blanche Fury is a 1948 British Technicolor drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger and Michael Gough. It was adapted from a novel by Joseph Shearing. In Victorian era England, two schemers will stop at nothing to acquire the Fury estate, even murder.
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Sexual Meditation: Room with View Sexual Meditation: Room with View, is a 1971 experimental film directed by Stan Brakhage. Shot on 16 mm film, the film explores the often blurry nature of gender roles in the copulatory ritual. "Sexual Meditation" introduces the viewer to two distinct characters, a male and female, although many have postulated that the female is simply an illusionary impression of the male's apparent sexual frustration.
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The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes is a 1971 American experimental film by Stan Brakhage. Its title is based on the literal translation of the term "autopsy". The film documented the highly graphic autopsy procedures used by forensic pathologists, such as the removal of organs and the embalming process.
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You'd Be Surprised! You'd Be Surprised! is a 1930 British musical comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Forde, Joy Windsor and Frank Stanmore. The film was shot at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton. It was made during the transition to sound film. Originally silent, it had synchronised songs and music added. A silent version was also released to cater to cinemas that hadn't converted to sound yet.
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The Elephant Man (film) The Elephant Man is a 1980 American historical drama film about Joseph Merrick (whom the script calls John Merrick), a severely deformed man in late 19th century London. The film was directed by David Lynch and stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon and Freddie Jones. It was produced by Jonathan Sanger and Mel Brooks, the latter of whom was intentionally left uncredited to avoid confusion from audiences who possibly would have expected a comedy.
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Poltergeist (film series) Poltergeist is an American horror film series distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the 1980s. The original trilogy revolves around the members of the Freeling family, who are stalked and terrorized by a group of ghosts lead by a demon known as the Beast that are attracted to the youngest daughter, Carol Anne. The original film was co-written and produced by Steven Spielberg. The "Poltergeist" films collected a total of approximately $132 million at the United States box office.
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Stanley Brooks Stanley M. Brooks is an American film and television producer. He has produced more than 60 movies for film and television as well as several critically acclaimed miniseries including "Broken Trail" and "Prayers for Bobby".
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Michael Klinger (producer) Michael Klinger (1 November 1920 – 15 September 1989) was a British film producer and distributor. After Tony Tenser, then a publicist became his business partner, the two men created the Compton cinema chain and distribution company and financed "Repulsion" (1965) and "Cul-de-sac" (1966) both directed by Roman Polanski. After their association ended, Klinger produced "Get Carter" (1971), starring Michael Caine, and "Gold" (1974), with Roger Moore in the lead, and was the executive producer of the 'Confessions' series of sex comedies with Robin Askwith.
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Block-Heads Block-Heads is a 1938 comedy film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, produced by Hal Roach Studios for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film, a reworking of elements from the Laurel and Hardy shorts "We Faw Down" (1928) and "Unaccustomed As We Are" (1929), was Roach's final film for MGM.
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Go for a Take Go for a Take (a.k.a. "Double Take") is a 1972 British comedy film directed by Harry Booth and featuring Dennis Price, Bob Todd, Reg Varney, Norman Rossington, Sue Lloyd, and Anouska Hempel. Debbie Russ reprises her role as the character "Tiger" from the television series "Here Come the Double Deckers" (1970–71).
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Barbara Stanwyck Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, model and dancer. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra. After a short but notable career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television.
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Stanley Beck Stanley Beck (June 5, 1936, New York City) is an American film producer and actor of the stage, television, and film. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayal of Stanly in the 1969 film "John and Mary" and Artie Silver in the 1974 film "Lenny". He has produced three films during his career, "Straight Time" (1978), "Death Valley" (1982), and "Man, Woman and Child" (1983).
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Lila Finn Lila Finn (born Lila Shanley; November 28, 1909 - November 15, 1996) was an American actress and stunt woman who performed in films for almost six decades and was known for such films as "Gone with the Wind", "It's a Wonderful Life", "Blazing Saddles", "The Goonies", "Drum", "The Towering Inferno", "Suburban Commando", "" and "The Poseidon Adventure".
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Three on a Spree Three on a Spree is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Sidney J. Furie, based on the 1902 novel "Brewster's Millions", which had been previously filmed by Edward Small in 1945.
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Smith (1939 film) Smith (1939) is a short film directed by Michael Powell to promote a charity that helped ex-servicemen who had fallen on hard times, starring Ralph Richardson and Flora Robson.
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20 Mule Team 20 Mule Team (also known as "Twenty Mule Team") is a 1940 American Western film about Death Valley, and Daggett, California borax miners starring Wallace Beery and Anne Baxter. The film provides an extremely rare opportunity to see Beery act opposite his nephew Noah Beery, Jr., best known for playing Joseph "Rocky" Rockford on television's "The Rockford Files" during the 1970s. The movie was directed by Richard Thorpe and originally released in Sepiatone, a brown and white process used by the studio the previous year for the Kansas scenes in "The Wizard of Oz".
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Eddie Braben Edwin Charles "Eddie" Braben (31 October 1930 – 21 May 2013) was an English comedy writer and performer best known for providing material for Morecambe and Wise. He also worked for David Frost, Ronnie Corbett and Ken Dodd.
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Home Sweet Home (1945 film) Home Sweet Home is a 1945 British musical comedy film directed by John E. Blakeley written by Roney Parsons and Anthony Toner and starring Frank Randle, Nicolette Roeg (sister of director Nic Roeg) and Tony Pendrell.
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Strange Cargo (1940 film) Strange Cargo is a 1940 American romantic drama film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Frank Borzage and starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in a story about a group of fugitive prisoners from a French penal colony. The screenplay by Lawrence Hazard was based upon the 1936 novel, "Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep", by Richard Sale. The film was produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and was the eighth and last film pairing of Crawford and Gable. The supporting cast includes Peter Lorre.