Nigel Balchin

Screenwriter

About

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Also Known As

Mark Spade

Birth Place

Wiltshire, England, GB

Born

December 03, 1908

Filmography

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Cleopatra (1963)

Screenplay for original production

The Singer Not the Song (1962)

Barabbas (1962)

Circle of Deception (1961)

The Risk (1961)

The Blue Angel (1959)

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Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room) -- (1949) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Bit Hush-Hush

Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room) -- (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Ever Fired At A Tank?

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Cleopatra (1963)

Screenplay for original production

The Singer Not the Song (1962)

Barabbas (1962)

Circle of Deception (1961)

The Risk (1961)

The Blue Angel (1959)

The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)

The Man Who Never Was (1956)

23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)

The Malta Story (1953)

Life Events

1933

Published first piece of fiction work

Videos

Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room) -- (1949) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Bit Hush-Hush Second scene introduces David Farrar as the protagonist, weapons expert Sammy in London, 1943, Kathleen Byron as Susan, secretary for his unit, Michael Gough the officer seeking his help, Sid James the barkeep, early in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room), 1949.

Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room) -- (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Ever Fired At A Tank? Not far from London, at Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge, a plausible site for a weapons-testing range, Leslie Banks as Col. Holland, expressing unhappiness with the new gun to expert Sammy (David Farrar), in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room), 1949.

Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room) -- (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I Never Nurs'd A Dear Gazelle At a London club ca. 1943, researcher Sammy (David Farrar), who has lost a foot and become an alcoholic, waits for girlfriend and colleague Susan (Kathleen Byron), unsure why she stays with him, turning together to a poem by the Irishman Thomas Moore when an unwelcome friend appears, in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Hour Of Glory (a.k.a. The Small Back Room), 1949.

Mandy (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Anxious Young Mother Stuff Phyllis Thaxter narrates as young mother Christine, Eleanor Summerfield her visiting friend Lily, Terence Morgan her husband Harry, suddenly worried about her young daughter, opening Alexander Mackendrick's Mandy, 1952, from Ealing Studios.

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