Who directed the 1951 British science fiction comedy film in which an American actor and decorated naval officer of World War II starred in?
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Mister Drake's Duck Mr Drake's Duck is a 1951 British science fiction comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan, Jon Pertwee, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Reginald Beckwith. The screenplay concerns Mr Drake, a farmer, who discovers that his hens have started laying radioactive eggs.
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr., KBE, DSC, (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000) was an American actor and a decorated naval officer of World War II.
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The Man in the White Suit The Man In The White Suit is a 1951 science-fiction satirical comedy film made by Ealing Studios. It starred Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker and was directed by Alexander Mackendrick. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Screenplay) for Roger MacDougall, John Dighton and Alexander Mackendrick (who was a cousin of Roger MacDougall).
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Ann Robinson Ann Robinson (born May 25, 1929) is an American actress and stunt horse rider, perhaps best known for her work in the science-fiction classic "The War of the Worlds" and in the 1954 film "Dragnet", in which she starred as a Los Angeles police officer opposite Jack Webb and Ben Alexander.
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Mac McDonald Mac McDonald (born Terence McDonald; 18 June 1949) is an American actor. He is known for playing Captain Hollister on the BBC TV series "Red Dwarf" and frequently plays American characters in other British TV shows. He has also had many movie roles in films such as "Aliens", "Batman" and "The Fifth Element", all of which were filmed in London.
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The Frogmen The Frogmen is a 1951 black-and-white film made by Twentieth Century Fox. It is based on operations by United States Navy Underwater Demolition Teams, popularly known as "frogmen", against the Japanese Army and naval forces in World War II. It was the first such movie about scuba diving and became a popular cultural hit.
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Mystery Submarine (1950 film) Mystery Submarine is a 1950 American war film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén and Robert Douglas.
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The Smiling Lieutenant The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins, and released by Paramount Pictures.
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USS PC-1168 USS "PC-1168" was a "PC-461"-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War II. "PC-1168" is notable for being the ship on which the film "You're in the Navy Now", which starred Gary Cooper, was filmed in 1950. The ship was later transferred to the Republic of China Navy, serving from 1954 to 1970 as ROCS "Ching Kiang" (PC-116).
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Sealed Cargo Sealed Cargo is a 1951 American war film about a fisherman, played by Dana Andrews, who gets tangled up with Nazis and their U-boats. It was based on the novel "The Gaunt Woman" by Edmund Gilligan.
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Private Angelo (film) Private Angelo is a 1949 British comedy war film directed by Michael Anderson and Peter Ustinov and starring Ustinov, Godfrey Tearle, Maria Denis and Marjorie Rhodes. It depicts the misadventures of a soldier in the Italian Army during the Second World War. It was adapted from the novel "Private Angelo" by Eric Linklater. The film's costumes were designed by Ustinov's mother Nadia Benois.
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Untamed Women Untamed Women is a 1952 United States science fiction film written by George Wallace Sayre and directed by W. Merle Connell. An American bomber pilot is rescued after drifting at sea during World War II. He tells doctors how he and three of his fellow crash survivors washed up on an island inhabited by dinosaurs and a tribe of druid-descended cave-women who are being plagued by Neanderthal men intent on kidnapping them for breeding purposes. In 1986, the movie was featured in an episode of the "Canned Film Festival".
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Pride of the Navy Pride of the Navy is a 1939 American action film directed by Charles Lamont and written by Ben Markson and Saul Elkins. The film stars James Dunn, Rochelle Hudson, Gordon Oliver, Horace McMahon, Gordon Jones and Charlotte Wynters. The film was released on January 23, 1939, by Republic Pictures.
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John Agar John George Agar, Jr. (January 31, 1921 – April 7, 2002) was an American actor. He is best known for starring alongside John Wayne in the films "Sands of Iwo Jima", "Fort Apache", and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon". In his later career he was the star of B movies, such as "Tarantula", "The Mole People", "The Brain from Planet Arous", "Revenge of the Creature", "Flesh and the Spur", and "Hand of Death". He was the first husband of Shirley Temple.
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Back to Bataan Back to Bataan is a 1945 World War II war film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring John Wayne and Anthony Quinn. It depicts events (some fictionalized and some actual) that took place after the Battle of Bataan (1941–42) on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The working title of the film was "The Invisible Army".
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Alan Hale Sr. Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan; February 10, 1892 – January 22, 1950) was an American movie actor and director, most widely remembered for his many supporting character roles, in particular as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn, as well as films supporting Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan, among dozens of others.
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The Officers' Mess The Officers' Mess is a 1931 British comedy film directed by Manning Haynes and starring Richard Cooper, Harold French and Elsa Lanchester. It was made at Walton Studios. It was released as a quota quickie by Paramount Pictures.
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Elopement (film) Elopement is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Clifton Webb, Anne Francis, Charles Bickford, and William Lundigan.
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Frank Novak Frank Novak (born March 4, 1945) is an American character actor who has made dozens of film and television appearances in "Independence Day", "Newsies", "Breast Men", "Seinfeld", "", "NYPD Blue", "Becker", "Charmed", "Diagnosis Murder", "Party of Five", "Monk", and "Las Vegas". He gave a memorable performance as General Douglas MacArthur in the miniseries "The Korean War" made for Chinese television, and played Henry Kissinger in the science fiction epic "Watchmen."
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The Admiral Was a Lady The Admiral Was a Lady is a 1950 American comedy film directed by Albert S. Rogell and starring Edmond O'Brien and Wanda Hendrix. The working title of the film was "Once Over Lightly" that was the title of one of the songs in the film.
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H.M.S. Defiant H.M.S. Defiant (released as Damn the Defiant! in the United States) is a British adventure CinemaScope and Technicolor film from 1962 starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde. It tells the story of a mutiny aboard the fictitious ship of the title at around the time of the Spithead Mutiny. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert, with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale from Frank Tilsley's novel "Mutiny" (1958). The film had its world premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End on 22 February 1962.
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Talk of a Million Talk of a Million (A.K.A. You Can't Beat the Irish) is a 1951 British comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs, starring Jack Warner, with an early appearance from Sid James.