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John Dark is a Associate Producer British born on 7 april 1927
John Dark (born 7 April 1927, London, England) is a British film and television producer.
Dark produced Half a Sixpence in 1967 and a series of Edgar Rice Burroughs films, including The Land That Time Forgot and At the Earth's Core, in the 1970s.
Earlier work included associate producer on the Charles K. Feldman spoofs What's New Pussycat? and Casino Royale.
Dark was also executive producer of the film adaptation of the Willy Russell play Shirley Valentine and of the ill-fated BBC soap opera set in Spain, Eldorado.
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Dark produced Half a Sixpence in 1967 and a series of Edgar Rice Burroughs films, including The Land That Time Forgot and At the Earth's Core, in the 1970s.
Earlier work included associate producer on the Charles K. Feldman spoofs What's New Pussycat? and Casino Royale.
Dark was also executive producer of the film adaptation of the Willy Russell play Shirley Valentine and of the ill-fated BBC soap opera set in Spain, Eldorado.
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Stepping Out (1991)
, 1h44Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters, Julie Walters, Bill Irwin, Ellen Greene, Jane Krakowski
Roles Producer
Rating63%
A "has-been" Broadway performer moves to Buffalo and starts teaching tap dance lessons to a group of misfits who, through their dance classes, bond and realize what they can achieve. Their newfound self-confidence changes their lives forever.
Shirley Valentine (1989)
, 1h48Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Alison Steadman, Julia McKenzie, Joanna Lumley, George Costigan
Roles Executive Producer
Rating71%
Shirley Valentine is a 42-year-old Liverpudlian bored housewife whose life and initially enriching marriage has settled into a narrow and unsatisfying rut, leaving few real friends and her childhood dreams unaccomplished. When her flamboyant friend Jane (Alison Steadman) wins a trip for two to Greece, Shirley uncharacteristically puts herself first and accepts her invitation.
Slayground (1983)
, 1h29Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Peter Coyote, Mel Smith, Billie Whitelaw, Kelli Maroney, Marie Masters, Philip Sayer
Roles Producer
Rating49%
À la suite d'un braquage ayant mal tourné, des bandits prennent la fuite et se retrouvent avec un contrat sur leurs têtes.
Arabian Adventure (1979)
, 1h38Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Actors Christopher Lee, Oliver Tobias, Milo O'Shea, Peter Cushing, Capucine, Puneet Sira
Roles Producer
Rating57%
Un magicien adepte de la magie noire, Alquazar, obtient des forces du mal, en échange de son âme, le secret pour devenir le maître du monde. Mais les deux héros, le jeune Majeed et le prince Hasan, vont tout faire pour l'en empêcher.
Warlords of Atlantis (1978)
, 1h36Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Transport films, Animaux préhistoriques, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films set in Atlantis
Actors Doug McClure, John Gilmore, Shane Rimmer, John Ratzenberger, Michael Gothard, Daniel Massey
Roles Producer
Rating55%
Around the beginning of the 20th century, British archaeologist Professor Aitken and his son, Charles, have chartered a ship called the Texas Rose to take them out to sea, where they plan to dive underwater in a diving bell designed by engineer Greg Collinson. Although everyone aboard the ship, including Greg, thinks that the Professors Aitken are just going to look at fish, Charles and his father are secretly searching for proof of the existence of the lost city of Atlantis. He and Greg find it on their first dive, and then some. First, they are attacked by a reptilian sea monster, which comes through the bottom of the diving bell, but Greg is able to fend it off by sticking a live wire into its mouth, electrocuting it.
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
, 1h30Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Films based on science fiction novels, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Patrick Wayne, Doug McClure, Sarah Douglas, Dana Gillespie, Thorley Walters, Shane Rimmer
Roles Producer
Rating54%
Major Ben McBride (Patrick Wayne) organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure) who has been missing in the region for several years. A British naval survey ship takes them to Caprona. McBride's party: the paleontologist Norfolk (Thorley Walters), gunner and mechanic Hogan (Shane Rimmer) and photographer Lady Charlotte 'Charlie' Cunningham (Sarah Douglas) fly over the mountain wall of Caprona in an amphibious aircraft, but are attacked by a pterodactyl and forced down. They find themselves in a world populated by primitive warriors and terrifying prehistoric creatures, all of whom they must evade in order to get back safely to their ship. They meet a cave-girl, Ajor (Dana Gillespie), who can speak English (she was taught by Tyler); she leads them to the land of a race of samurai-like warriors called the Nargas, who are keeping Tyler prisoner. When the volcano that the Nargas worship erupts, they must escape the cataclysm engulfing the land. Tyler sacrifices himself to cover their retreat.
At the Earth's Core (1976)
, 1h29Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, La préhistoire, Films based on science fiction novels, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Peter Cushing, Doug McClure, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant, Godfrey James, Keith Barron
Roles Producer
Rating50%
Dr. Abner Perry, a British Victorian period scientist (Cushing), and his US financier David Innes (McClure) make a test run of their Iron Mole drilling machine in a Welsh mountain, but end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic flying reptiles, the Mahars, and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen. They are captured by the Mahars, who keep primitive humans as their slaves through mind control. David falls for the beautiful slave girl Princess Dia (Munro) but when she is chosen as a sacrificial victim in the Mahar city, David and Perry must rally the surviving human slaves to rebel and not only save her but also win their freedom.
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
, 1h37Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, Ian Bannen, Diana Dors, Angela Pleasence, David Warner
Roles Associate Producer
Rating65%
Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "Offers You Cannot Resist". A nasty fate awaits those who cheat the shop's Proprietor (Peter Cushing).
The Beast Must Die (1974)
, 1h33Origin United-kingdom
Genres Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Anton Diffring, Calvin Lockhart, Charles Gray, Ciaran Madden, Marlene Clark, Michael Gambon
Roles Associate Producer
Rating55%
The millionaire Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) invites a group of people to spend some time in his rural English mansion, along with his wife Caroline (Marlene Clark) where he reveals that one of them is a werewolf, and therefore must be killed. The group is composed of:
Madhouse (1974)
, 1h32Directed by Jim Clark
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime, Slasher
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Serial killer films
Actors Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri, Natasha Pyne, Linda Hayden
Roles Associate Producer
Rating61%
Paul Toombes (Vincent Price) is a successful horror actor whose trademark role was Dr. Death, a skull-faced sadist. During a party in Hollywood showing off his fifth Dr. Death film, he announces his engagement to Ellen Mason (Julie Crosthwait), who gives him an engraved watch as an engagement gift; later that evening, however, adult film producer Oliver Quayle (Robert Quarry) reveals Ellen had worked for him previously. Distraught at Toombes' reaction, Ellen returns to her room, where a masked man in dark garb, similar to Dr. Death's attire, approaches her with a knife. An apologetic Toombes comes in shortly after, only for her decapitated head to fall from her shoulders. Though he is acquitted of the crime, Toombes' career is destroyed as he spends several years in a mental hospital, where even he is not sure whether he killed Ellen or not.
The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
, 1h30Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Transport films, Submarine films, Films based on science fiction novels, Animaux préhistoriques, Political films
Actors Doug McClure, Keith Barron, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Anthony Ainley, Godfrey James
Roles Producer
Rating56%
The movie begins with Doug McClure as Bowen Tyler narrating the events, much as we see in many Edgar Rice Burroughs novels. A sailor throws a bottle with a written manuscript inside it into the sea, hoping for it to be discovered later.
There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
, 1h35Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Diana Dors, Tony Britton, Gabrielle Drake, Nicky Henson
Roles Executive Producer
Rating56%
Sellers appears as Robert Danvers, a vain, womanizing and wealthy host of a high-profile cooking show. He meets Hawn's character, a no-nonsense American hippie living with an English rock musician in London, and, to everyone's surprise, falls for her.
Casino Royale (1967)
, 2h11Directed by Robert Parrish, John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Richard Talmadge, Joseph McGrath
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films about children, Spy films, Politique, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, William Holden
Roles Producer
Rating50%
The story of Casino Royale is told in an episodic format. Val Guest oversaw the assembly of the sections, although he turned down the credit of "co-ordinating director".
Half a Sixpence (1967)
, 2h23Directed by George Sidney
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Tommy Steele, Julia Foster, Cyril Ritchard, Elaine Taylor, Grover Dale, Pamela Brown
Roles Executive Producer
Rating63%
Dans l'Angleterre victorienne, un jeune orphelin, Arthur Kipps, découvre une pièce de six pences alors qu’il marche le long d’un ruisseau avec sa jeune amie, Ann. Il coupe la pièce en deux et en donne une moitié à Ann en tant que symbole de leur amour. Kipps se rend ensuite dans une ville voisine pour travailler en tant qu'apprenti chez un drapier. Le temps passe et il devient un homme. Il se lie d'amitié avec Harry Chitterlow, acteur et dramaturge, qui découvre que Kipps est l'héritier d'une fortune qui lui a été laissée par son grand-père.
The Running Man (1963)
, 1h43Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Fernando Rey, Felix Aylmer, Eleanor Summerfield
Roles Production Supervisor
Rating64%
In Croydon, England, seemingly grieving Stella Black (Lee Remick) has just returned home from her husband's funeral. Apparently, he died in a gliding accident when the glider he had rented crashed into the sea, and his body was never recovered. In reality, she knows her husband Rex Black (Laurence Harvey) is still alive and has been in hiding at a seaside boarding house for three months under the assumed name of Erskine, a shoe salesman on vacation, between the time of his "death" and the funeral. He has just clandestinely returned home following the funeral. They are perpetrating this ruse to collect on the £50,000 life insurance money from the Excelsior Insurance Company. They feel Excelsior owes them this money as, in the previous year, Excelsior did not pay out a £20,000 business insurance claim when his airplane, which he used to operate his own transport company, went down in bad weather on a flight to Hamburg, West Germany, and was destroyed. His insurance had lapsed by two days due to someone's error in not paying the latest premium – Rex admitting that it may have been his error - which in turn ruined his business.