House of Blackmail
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House of Blackmail is a 1953 British
drama film
directed by Maurice Elvey
and starring Mary Germaine
, William Sylvester
and Alexander Gauge
. A soldier and his girlfriend become mixed up with a blackmailer.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Maurice Elvey
Maurice Elvey
Maurice Elvey was the most prolific film director in British history. He directed nearly 200 films between 1913 and 1957. During the silent film era he directed as many as twenty films per year....
and starring Mary Germaine
Mary Germaine
-Cast:* Laughter in Paradise * Where's Charley? * The Floating Dutchman * Father's Doing Fine * House of Blackmail * Out of the Clouds * The Green Carnation -External links:...
, William Sylvester
William Sylvester
William Sylvester was an American television and film actor. His most famous film credit was Dr. Heywood Floyd in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey...
and Alexander Gauge
Alexander Gauge
Alexander Gauge was a British actor best known for playing Friar Tuck in The Adventures of Robin Hood from 1955 to 1960....
. A soldier and his girlfriend become mixed up with a blackmailer.
Cast
- Mary GermaineMary Germaine-Cast:* Laughter in Paradise * Where's Charley? * The Floating Dutchman * Father's Doing Fine * House of Blackmail * Out of the Clouds * The Green Carnation -External links:...
... Carol Blane - William SylvesterWilliam SylvesterWilliam Sylvester was an American television and film actor. His most famous film credit was Dr. Heywood Floyd in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey...
... Jimmy - Alexander GaugeAlexander GaugeAlexander Gauge was a British actor best known for playing Friar Tuck in The Adventures of Robin Hood from 1955 to 1960....
... Markham - John ArnattJohn Arnatt- Biography :John Arnatt was born in Petrograd on 9 May 1917. His parents were Francis Arnatt and Ethel Marion Arnatt . He attended Epworth College. Arnatt trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art...
... Pete Carter - Denis ShawDenis ShawDenis Shaw was a British character actor specialising in slimy villains. Born in Dulwich, he was a rotund man, with dark, wavy hair, and slanty eyes...
... Bassett - Ingeborg von KusserowIngeborg von Kusserow-Biography:Kusserow was born in Wollstein, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany .She married Percy Graf Welsburg in November 1941 and emigrated to Great Britain after World War II, where she usually appeared as Ingeborg Wells. She retired in 1960.-Filmography:-External links:...
... Emma - Patricia OwensPatricia Owens (actress)Patricia Molly Owens was a Canadian-born American actress, working in Hollywood...
... Joan - C. Denier WarrenC. Denier WarrenC. Denier Warren or Denier Warren was an American born actor who appeared extensively on stage and screen from the early 1930s to late 1960s, mostly in the United Kingdom....
... Jock - Hugo Schuster ... Dr. Welich
- Barry Wynne ... Billy Blane