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John Harlow est un Réalisateur, Scénariste, Assistant Director et Monteur né le 19 aout 1896 à Ross-on-Wye (Royaume-uni)

John Harlow

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Naissance 19 aout 1896 à Ross-on-Wye (Royaume-uni)
Mort 1977 (à 80 ans) à Londres (Royaume-uni)

John Harlow (19 August 1896 – 1977) was an English film director, active from the 1930s to the 1950s. Harlow worked for smaller studios, mainly in crime/thriller genre potboilers, with his better known films including Candles at Nine (1944), the Sexton Blake thrillers Meet Sexton Blake and The Echo Murders (both 1945), and the 1947 reincarnation drama While I Live. He also directed two late entries in the popular, if critically unappreciated, Old Mother Riley series.

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Filmographie de John Harlow (27 films)

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Delayed Action, 58minutes
Réalisé par John Harlow
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Policier
Acteurs Robert Ayres, June Thorburn, Alan Wheatley, Bruce Seton, Michael Balfour, John Horsley
Note55% 2.7779852.7779852.7779852.7779852.777985
Two criminals do a deal with a suicidal man, who will confess to crimes they have committed before killing himself. However he subsequently has a change of heart.
The Blue Parrot, 1h9
Réalisé par John Harlow
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Dermot Walsh, Jacqueline Hill, Ballard Berkeley, Richard Pearson, Ferdy Mayne, Edwin Richfield
Note54% 2.7212252.7212252.7212252.7212252.721225
A murder is committed in Soho night club The Blue Parrot, and the British nightclub owner and her boyfriend are chased by police for a crime they did not commit.
Old Mother Riley, Headmistress, 1h15
Réalisé par John Harlow
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Lyn James
Note46% 2.3221752.3221752.3221752.3221752.322175
Daughter Kitty is sacked from her job as music teacher at an exclusive girls school, but Mother Riley unexpectedly comes into an inheritance, and decides to buy the girls finishing school and give Kitty her job back. Mother Riley soon establishes herself as headmistress at St. Mildred's School for Young Ladies, and throws herself into her new role with vigour, whether it's taking P.E. lessons, brazenly cheating on Sports Day, or confronting the haunted school piano.
Old Mother Riley's New Venture, 1h9
Réalisé par John Harlow
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Chili Bouchier, Sebastian Cabot, Fred Groves, C. Denier Warren, John Le Mesurier, Grace Arnold
Note43% 2.1713952.1713952.1713952.1713952.171395
The owner of a five star London hotel leaves for a holiday, and to everyone's surprise promotes Old Mother Riley from kitchen dishwasher to manageress. Chaos ensues, and Mother Riley and Kitty are suddenly suspects in the theft of the Royal Hula Diamond, but somehow along the way, also manage a trip to a beauty parlour. a banquet with Arab royalty, some Saint Patrick's Day celebrations, and a climactic custard pie fight.
While I Live, 1h25
Réalisé par John Harlow
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Thriller
Acteurs Sonia Dresdel, Carol Raye, Tom Walls, Clifford Evans, Patricia Burke, Charles Victor
Note65% 3.279633.279633.279633.279633.27963
In 1922 in Cornwall, a prodigious young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan (Audrey Fildes) is struggling with the ending of a piano tone poem she is composing. Driven to complete the piece by her domineering elder sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), Olwen becomes agitated and despondent, and one night sleepwalks to the edge of a cliff near their home. Julia follows her and shouts her name but Olwen, abruptly awakened, loses her balance and falls to her death on the rocks below. Julia is unable to come to terms with Olwen's death and the guilt of her own role in it, over the years becoming a reclusive, obsessive figure whose main raison d'être is to keep Olwen's memory alive. Olwen's final composition gains her posthumous recognition, and each year on the anniversary of her death it is broadcast on the radio.
Appointment with Crime, 1h32
Réalisé par John Harlow
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Policier
Thèmes Gangsters
Acteurs William Hartnell, Raymond Lovell, Alan Wheatley, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom, Joyce Howard
Note62% 3.1402853.1402853.1402853.1402853.140285
Leo Martin (Hartnell) works for a criminal gang run by Gus Loman (Lovell) that primarily uses a smash and grab tactic. During one particular risky robbery heist, Leo breaks the window at a jewelry store only to have his wrists broken by a gate falling. He is soon caught and brought to prison to serve his term. Throughout his stay, Leo does not reveal who he is working for to the authorities but instead serves his time angered by Gus for running out on him during the robbery.
The Echo Murders, 1h15
Réalisé par John Harlow
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Thriller
Acteurs David Farrar, Dennis Price, Cyril Smith, Ferdy Mayne, Kynaston Reeves, Danny Green
Note50% 2.545792.545792.545792.545792.54579
A man's life is threatened and he seeks the assistance of Sexton Blake.
The Dark Tower, 1h33
Réalisé par John Harlow, John Fawcett
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Thriller
Thèmes Cirque
Acteurs Herbert Lom, Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Ben Lyon, Frederick Burtwell, William Hartnell
Note60% 3.0020253.0020253.0020253.0020253.002025
Stephen Torg (Lom) seeks work at a struggling traveling circus. While there, a lion escapes; Torg is able to control it with his skill at hypnotism. Phil Danton (Lyon), the head of the circus, is so impressed, he hires the newcomer. Then someone comes up with an idea. Torg hypnotizes Mary (Crawford) so that she can perform a dangerous aerial stunt without props. Her partner and boyfriend, Tom Danton (Farrar) is suspicious, but is overruled by the others.