Who directed the British-American black comedy-drama film produced by Ray Stark?
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Ray Stark Ray Stark (October 3, 1915 – January 17, 2004) was one of the most successful and prolific independent film producers in postwar Hollywood. Highly tenacious and intelligent, Stark’s background as a literary and theatrical agent groomed him to produce some of the most dynamic and profitable films of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, such as "The World of Suzie Wong" (1961), "West Side Story" (1961), "The Misfits" (1961), "Lolita" (1962), "The Night of The Iguana" (1964), "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1967), "Funny Girl" (1968), "The Goodbye Girl" (1977), "The Toy" (1982), "Annie" (1982), and "Steel Magnolias" (1989).
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Lolita (1962 film) Lolita is a 1962 British-American black comedy-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick. Based on a novel of the same title, Vladimir Nabokov also wrote the screenplay. It follows a middle-aged literature lecturer who becomes obsessed with an adolescent girl. The film stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Sue Lyon as Dolores Haze (Lolita), and Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze, with Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty.
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Face the Music (film) Face the Music (released in the U.S. as The Black Glove) is a 1954 British crime drama film directed by Terence Fisher, starring Alex Nicol and Eleanor Summerfield. An American trumpet player in Britain is accused of murdering a beautiful blues singer.
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Night Without Stars Night Without Stars is a 1951 British black and white dramatic thriller starring David Farrar, Nadia Gray and Maurice Teynac. The screenplay was written by Winston Graham based upon his eponymous 1950 novel. The film was directed by Anthony Pelissier and produced by Hugh Stewart.
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The Lieutenant of Inishmore The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 2001.
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Stark Raving Black Stark Raving Black is a stand-up comedy film starring Lewis Black and directed by Adam Dubin. The 80 minute show was filmed in HD and 5.1 Surround Sound in Detroit, Michigan at The Fillmore Detroit on August 2, 2009. In the film, Black discusses politics and current events from the state of the economy to alternative energy. The DVD has 70 minutes of unedited and uncensored content, which is 40 minutes more than the television special.
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Black Sea (film) Black Sea is a 2014 British-American disaster thriller film directed by Kevin Macdonald, written by Dennis Kelly, and starring Jude Law. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2014 and in the United States on 23 January 2015.
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Alfie Darling Alfie Darling is a 1975 British comedy drama film directed by Ken Hughes. It is the sequel to the 1966 film "Alfie", with Alan Price taking over Michael Caine's role of Alfie. Price also penned the movie title song, performed and released as a single by Cilla Black who was also the first to record the title song based on the original movie, penned by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
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Soul Man (film) Soul Man is a 1986 American comedy film about a white man who temporarily darkens his skin, in order to pretend to be black and qualify for a black-only scholarship at Harvard Law School. The movie was directed by Steve Miner and stars C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, Leslie Nielsen, James B. Sikking, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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House of the Living Dead House of the Living Dead, also known as Doctor Maniac, is a British/South African international co-production Gothic horror and science fiction film made in 1974 under the title Skaduwees Oor Brugplaas ("Shadows over Bridge Place") by director Ray Austin. Set on a plantation in Apartheid-era South Africa, it deals heavily with the occult. Its tagline is ""It drives you mad before it kills!""
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Black Beauty (1971 film) Black Beauty is a 1971 British drama film, based on the Anna Sewell novel of the same name. This movie is the fourth feature film adaptation of Anna Sewell's story. The movie was directed by James Hill. Lionel Bart provided the rousing score.
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Bitter Victory Bitter Victory (French title Amère victoire) is a 1957 black and white Franco-American international co-production film, shot in CinemaScope and directed by Nicholas Ray. Set in World War II, it stars Richard Burton and Curt Jürgens as two British Army officers sent out on a commando raid in North Africa. Ruth Roman plays the former lover of one and the wife of the other. It is based on the novel of the same name by René Hardy.
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The Headless Ghost The Headless Ghost is a 1959 British comedy horror film, produced by Herman Cohen and directed by Peter Graham Scott. It stars Richard Lyon, Liliane Sottane, David Rose, and Clive Revill. The films tells of three young people who spend the night in a haunted English castle. With the help of a friendly ghost, they reunite the head of the Headless Ghost with its body, thus ending its 600 years of wandering about headless. The film was made specifically as the second feature for an American double bill with "Horrors of the Black Museum" (1959).
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The Invisibles (TV series) The Invisibles is a British 2008 comedy drama series created and written by William Ivory for the BBC. It was produced by Company Pictures, shot in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Sunset Song (film) Sunset Song is a 2015 British drama film directed by Terence Davies. It is an adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel of the same name.
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Shades of Ray Shades of Ray is a 2008 independent film written and directed by Jaffar Mahmood. The film stars Zachary Levi as a half-American, half-Pakistani male wrestling with his mixed identity while waiting for his girlfriend to respond to his marriage proposal. The film was screened at numerous film festivals.
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Black Rainbow Black Rainbow is a 1989 British supernatural thriller film directed by Mike Hodges and filmed in Rock Hill, South Carolina and Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Beyond the Curtain Beyond the Curtain is a 1960 British drama film written and directed by Compton Bennett and starring Richard Greene and Eva Bartok.
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Cuban Fury Cuban Fury is a 2014 British romantic comedy film directed by James Griffiths, written by Jon Brown, and starring Nick Frost, Rashida Jones and Chris O'Dowd. The film was a minor box office success but received mixed reviews from critics.
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Kings of Devon Kings of Devon is a 2010 Indian dark comedy film written, produced, and directed by Rahsaan Islam. Islam also stars in the film, which was made for charity. It was released in the United States on 17 September 2010.
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Stark Raving Mad (1983 film) Stark Raving Mad is a 1983 film that depicts a fictionalised account of the Charles Starkweather/Caril Ann Fugate killings of the 1950s. The film starred Russ Fast as Richard Stark (Starkweather) and Marcie Severson as Laura Ferguson (Fugate). It was directed by George F. Hood and released in January 1983.
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For Queen and Country For Queen and Country is a 1988 British-American crime drama film co-written and directed by Martin Stellman and starring Denzel Washington. Washington stars as Reuben James, a Black British former paratrooper, who joined the British Army to escape the poverty of inner city London; Reuben fights in the Falklands War, and upon returning home he finds that society ignores and challenges him while trying to adjust to normal life.