Allan Beatty


Biography

Filmography

 

Art Department (Feature Film)

Shotgun (1955)
Set Dresser

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Photo Collections

Dead of Night - Lobby Cards
Here are a few Lobby Cards from the British anthology horror film Dead of Night (1945). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Videos

Movie Clip

Happy Road, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Hold Your Positions Stopped at a military road-block in rural France, American dad Mike (producer-director Gene Kelly) and French mom Suzanne (Barbara Laage), chasing their boarding-school runaway kids (Bobby Clark, Janine Duval) are handed off to a Brit commander (Michael Redgrave), who turns out to be clueless, Colin Mann and Harry Locke in support, in The Happy Road, 1957.
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) You've Got To Run Opening with Smith (Tom Courtenay) beginning his voice-over, credits, then en route to the borstal, in Tony Richardson's The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, 1962, from Alan Sillitoe's story and screenplay.
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Do Your Worst The "Guv'nor" (Michael Redgrave) with staff, receiving new inmates including Bosworth (John Thaw, later TV's Inspector Morse) and Smith (Tom Courtenay), then briefing new house master Brown (Alec McCowen), in Tony Richardson's The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, 1962.
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Stacey's Gone Away Borstal boys overseen by Craig (Ray Austin) and Fenton (Anthony Sagar) stage a mess hall brawl, later reviewed by the Governor (Michael Redgrave) and staff, in Tony Richardson's The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, 1962.
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) And Did Those Feet... Reformatory governor (Michael Redgrave) scolding his charges before a concert, Smith (Tom Courtenay) et al finishing with "Blake's Jerusalem," as a colleague is apprehended, in Tony Richardson's The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, 1962.
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I'm The Gaffer Now First the Governor (Michael Redgrave) giving a tour, then inmate Smith (Tom Courtenay) in a flashback, featuring his mother (Avis Bunnage) and her boyfriend (Raymond Dyer), in Tony Richardson's The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, 1962.
Lady Vanishes, The (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Tooth For A Toothbrush Soon-to-be-married traveler Iris (Margaret Lockwood), snowed-in at an Alpine chalet, discovers, in the person of Gilbert (Michael Redgrave, his first scene), the consequences of complaining about the noise upstairs, early in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, 1938.
Innocents, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) More Than Anything Hard to turn away from the opening and first scene, with Deborah Kerr and Michael Redgrave, from director Jack Clayton's now-celebrated adaptation of Henry James' The Turn Of The Screw, The Innocents, 1961, screenplay by Truman Capote and William Archibald.
Quiet American, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) All The Giggling And Chatter Saigon, 1952, in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s on-location opening, a body found during New Year festivities, cop Vigot (Claude Dauphin), journalist Fowler (Michael Redgrave) and local Phuong (Giorgia Moll) introduced, in The Quiet American, 1958, from Graham Greene’s novel, starring Audie Murphy.
Quiet American, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Ava Gardner Should Be Waiting Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz on location in Vietnam, Michael Redgrave as journalist Fowler, Audie Murphy the title character, whose mission isn’t defined, waylaid en route to Saigon, quips and insights from Graham Greene’s original novel, in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s The Quiet American, 1958.
Quiet American, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) A Whole Universe To Improve 1952 Saigon, French cop Vigot (Claude Dauphin) asks reporter Fowler (Michael Redgrave) to identify the body of his romantic rival, the title character (Audie Murphy), whom we meet in flashback, Giorgia Moll as girlfriend Phuong, in The Quiet American, 1958, from the Graham Greene novel.
Dead of Night (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Maxwell Frere Twisted ventriloquist Maxwell Frere (Michael Redgrave) has a climactic conversation with his dummy Hugo, observed by psychologist Sylvester Kee (Hartley Power) in "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" from the spooky English anthology Dead of Night, 1945.

Trailer

Wreck of the Mary Deare, The -- (Original Trailer) The skipper of a sunken ship (Gary Cooper) stands trial for The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959). Co-starring Charlton Heston.
Nicholas and Alexandra - (Original Trailer) Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), the story of Russia's last czar, Nicolas II, and his ill-fated family.
Happy Road, The - (Original Trailer) Gene Kelly returns to Paris to star in and direct The Happy Road (1957) about two single parents whose children have run away.
25th Hour, The - (Original Trailer) A Romanian peasant (Anthony Quinn) fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis in The 25th Hour (1967).
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) - (Original Trailer) A conservative boys' schoolteacher (Peter O'Toole) falls in love with an actress (Petulia Clark) in a musical remake of Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969).
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The - (Original Trailer) A boy from the Irish slums reviews his troubled past while training for a school race in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962).
Importance of Being Earnest, The (1952) - (Original Trailer) A British gentleman is one man in the city, another in the country in Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952).
Sons of the Sea - (Original Trailer) A brave captain pilots the first steamboat line between England and the U.S. in Sons of the Sea (1942).
Young Cassidy - (Original Trailer) Rod Taylor stars in the true story of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey, Young Cassidy (1965), directed by John Ford and Jack Cardiff, also starring Julie Christie, and Maggie Smith.
Battle Of Britain - (Original Trailer) Michael Caine and Sir Laurence Olivier head an all-star cast in the story of the Battle Of Britain (1969).
Hill, The - (Original Trailer) Sean Connery is a military prisoner in a Libyan World War II camp who must endure the torture of The Hill (1965).
Innocents, The (1961) - (Original Trailer) A governess (Deborah Kerr) believes her charges possessed in the best adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents, 1961, directed by Jack Clayton.

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