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George Pollock is a Director, Assistant Director and Assistant Editor British born on 27 march 1907 at Leicester (United-kingdom)
George Pollock, né George Henry Pollock le 27 mars 1907 à Leicester (Angleterre) et mort le 22 décembre 1979 à Thanet (Kent), est un réalisateur britannique de cinéma.
Il est connu pour avoir réalisé les films mettant en scène Margaret Rutherford dans le rôle de la détective Miss Marple, d'après les romans d'Agatha Christie.
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Birth name George Henry Pollock
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 27 march 1907 at Leicester (United-kingdom)
Death 22 december 1979 (at 72 years)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 27 march 1907 at Leicester (United-kingdom)
Death 22 december 1979 (at 72 years)
Il est connu pour avoir réalisé les films mettant en scène Margaret Rutherford dans le rôle de la détective Miss Marple, d'après les romans d'Agatha Christie.
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En 1961, George Pollock porte pour la première fois au grand écran le personnage d'Agatha Christie, la détective Miss Marple, interprétée par Margaret Rutherford, dans Le Train de 16 h 50. Il retrouve l'actrice dans trois autres films, Meurtre au galop (1963), Lady détective entre en scène (1964) et Passage à tabac (1964). En 1965, il réalise Les Dix Petits Indiens, adapté d'un autre roman de la reine du crime, Dix Petits Nègres.Best films
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Ten Little Indians (1965)
, 1h31Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Politic
Actors Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian Forte, Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Rating65%
Ten people travel by aerial tramway to a snowbound mansion, invited there by a Mr. U. N. Owen to spend the weekend. They discover that none of them has actually ever met Owen, including his secretary as well as a married housekeeper and cook, all hired through an agency.
Murder Most Foul (1964)
, 1h30Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Ron Moody, Bud Tingwell, Dennis Price, Ralph Michael
Rating70%
Margaret McGinty, a barmaid and former actress, is found hanged, and her lodger, Harold Taylor, caught at the scene, seems plainly guilty. Everyone believes it to be an open-and-shut case ... except for Miss Marple. She is the lone holdout in the jury that tries him, leading to a mistrial.
Murder Ahoy (1964)
, 1h33Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Lionel Jeffries, Bud Tingwell, Derek Nimmo, Joan Benham
Rating69%
The action takes place mainly on board an old wooden-walled battleship, HMS Battledore, which has been purchased by a Trust for the rehabilitation of young criminals, and intended by the founder to put backbone into young jellyfish.
Murder at the Gallop (1963)
, 1h21Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley, Flora Robson, Bud Tingwell, Gordon Harris
Rating71%
While Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) and Mr Stringer (Stringer Davis) are soliciting donations for a charity, they visit Mr. Enderby (Finlay Currie), a rich and eccentric recluse. He tumbles down a staircase, apparently the victim of a fatal heart attack. Knowing that Enderby had a pathological fear of cats, Miss Marple becomes suspicious when she finds one in the house. She also finds a piece of mud bearing the print of a riding boot, but when she goes to Inspector Craddock (Bud Tingwell), he is sceptical, believing that Enderby died of natural causes.
Kill or Cure (1962)
, 1h28Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Dennis Price, Lionel Jeffries, Moira Redmond, David Lodge
Rating60%
Un agent de police inepte est appelé à enquêter sur d'étranges allées et venues dans un club sportif.
Village of Daughters (1962)
, 1h26Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Eric Sykes, Yvonne Romain, Scilla Gabel, Eric Pohlmann, John Le Mesurier, Peter Illing
Rating55%
Herbert Harris is a traveling salesman who makes his way into a remote Italian village to sell his wares. There, he finds many single and attractive women who all pursue him madly. He quickly learns that the village has all but one single man left, as the majority have left to find work. The only single man left is Antonio, a wealthy foreigner who is looking for a bride. Due to the large selection of women, a rule was created prior to the arrival of Harris, that the first outsider to enter the village would be the one to make the ultimate choice of the man's bride.
Murder She Said (1961)
, 1h27Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Margaret Rutherford, John Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, Stringer Davis, Bud Tingwell, James Robertson Justice
Rating72%
While traveling by rail, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in the carriage of an overtaking train. The local police can find no evidence to support her story, so she conducts her own investigation and, with the aid of her close friend Jim Stringer (Stringer Davis), comes to the conclusion that the body must have been thrown off the train near the grounds of Ackenthorpe Hall, which adjoins the railway line.
The Secret Partner (1961)
, 1h31Directed by Basil Dearden, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee, Hugh Burden, Lee Montague, Melissa Stribling
Rating65%
An executive officer with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the shipping company vault.
And the Same to You (1960)
, 1h10Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Brian Rix, William Hartnell, Tommy Cooper, Vera Day, Sid James, Miles Malleson
Rating54%
Stuck with the name "Dickie Dreadnought," Rix feels he has no choice but to pursue a career as a boxer. To mollify his uncle, Rix pretends to be the soul of religiosity, while his tough-talking manager Walter 'Wally' Burton (William Hartnell) poses as a Man of the Cloth.
Sally's Irish Rogue (1960)
Directed by George Pollock
Genres Comedy
Actors Julie Harris, Harry Brogan, Tim Seely, Paul Farrell, John Cowley
Rating30%
Broth of a Boy (1959)
Directed by George Pollock
Genres Comedy
Actors Barry Fitzgerald, June Thorburn, Harry Brogan, Godfrey Quigley, Tony Wright, T.P. McKenna
Rating62%
Don't Panic Chaps! (1959)
, 1h25Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Dennis Price, Thorley Walters, Terence Alexander, Harry Fowler, George Cole, Nadja Regin
Rating56%
During WW II, a pair of observation teams, German and British, are left on a remote Adriatic island, then forgotten. The two sides call a truce and live harmoniously; that is until beautiful Elsa is cast ashore and war breaks out anew.
Rooney (1958)
, 1h28Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors John Gregson, Muriel Pavlow, Barry Fitzgerald, June Thorburn, Noel Purcell, Liam Redmond
Rating63%
Rooney est éboueur la semaine et joueur de hurling le week-end. Il n'a pas le temps de penser au mariage...
Dangerous Exile (1957)
, 1h31Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, French Revolution films
Actors Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Keith Michell, Richard O'Sullivan, Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie
Rating55%
The Duke Philippe de Beauvais smuggles his own son into the prison cell where Louis XVII is kept. Thus Louis XVII can escape unnoticed to England. Unfortunately the aerostat, steered by Duke Philippe de Beauvais, lands accidentally on a remote island. There an American spinster, Virginia Traill, takes care of the strange child. She finds the dauphin profoundly traumatised and not interested in becoming a king. Meanwhile Louis' uncle in Vienna has declared himself the new French king. In order to safeguard his claim on the throne, he sends assassins who shall murder the dauphin. Being unaware of the exchange, he has Richard de Beauvais killed. But now the dauphin's torturers recognise they have been deceived. Informed by a message of an English spy they send a ship to the island where the real dauphin hides. They attack the house of Virginia Traill and stop at nothing to detect the dauphin's hiding-place.
Stranger in Town (1957)
, 1h14Directed by George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Alex Nicol, Arthur Lowe, Mona Washbourne, Charles Lloyd-Pack, John Horsley, Colin Tapley
Rating60%