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Maurice Rootes

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 12 april 1917
Death 17 june 1997 (at 80 years)

Maurice Rootes est un monteur britannique né le 12 avril 1917 dans le Surrey (Angleterre) et mort le 17 juin 1997 à Ludlow dans le Shropshire (Angleterre).

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Filmography of Maurice Rootes (21 films)

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Twelve Plus One, 1h30
Directed by Nicolas Gessner
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Sharon Tate, Vittorio Gassman, Mylène Demongeot, Orson Welles, Vittorio De Sica, Terry-Thomas
Roles Editor
Rating57% 2.8973252.8973252.8973252.8973252.897325
Mario Beretti (Vittorio Gassman) is a young Italian-American Barber. He runs a Barber Shop by a construction site that boasts few customers. His life reaches a turning point when he is notified of the death of his aunt living in England, who named him her sole heir.
Krakatoa, East of Java, 2h11
Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about volcanoes, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle, Sal Mineo, Marc Lawrence
Roles Editor
Rating54% 2.7067552.7067552.7067552.7067552.706755
In 1883, the volcano on the island of Krakatoa in the Netherlands East Indies begins to erupt, terrorizing the children at a mission school in Palembang on nearby Sumatra. Meanwhile, across the Sunda Strait at her home port of Anjer on the west coast of Java, the steamer Batavia Queen, under the command of Captain Chris Hanson (Maximilian Schell), takes aboard passengers and cargo, including a diving bell and a balloon. Among the passengers coming aboard are Douglas Rigby (John Leyton), the designer, owner, and operator of the diving bell; Giovanni Borghese (Rossano Brazzi) and his son Leoncavallo (Sal Mineo), who own and operate the balloon as "The Flying Borgheses;" Harry Connerly (Brian Keith), a diver; Connerly‍ '​s mistress Charley Adams (Barbara Werle), who is a professional soprano and former saloon hostess; four female Japanese pearl divers led by Toshi (Jacqui Chan); and Laura Travis (Diane Baker), a married woman who had an extramarital affair with Hanson in Batavia.
Custer of the West, 2h23
Directed by Robert Siodmak, Noël Howard, Irving Lerner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Robert Shaw, Jeffrey Hunter, Ty Hardin, Mary Ure, Lawrence Tierney, Robert Ryan
Roles Editor
Rating58% 2.9013952.9013952.9013952.9013952.901395
With no better offers to be had, famous American Civil War upstart officer George Armstrong Custer takes over the Western Cavalry maintaining the peace in the Dakotas. He soon learns that the U.S. treaties are a sham, that Indian lands are being stolen and every excuse for driving them off their hunting grounds is being encouraged. With his wife Elizabeth (Mary Ure) Custer goes in and out of favor in Washington, while failing to keep wildcatting miners like his own deserting Sergeant Mulligan (Robert Ryan) from running off to prospect for gold in Indian country. After trying to humble the prideful Indian warrior Sitting Bull (Kieron Moore), Custer leads the 7th Cavalry into defeat.
First Men in the Moon, 1h43
Directed by Ray Harryhausen, Nathan Juran
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Films based on science fiction novels, Alternate history films, Space opera, Sur la Lune, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Lionel Jeffries, Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Miles Malleson, Norman Bird, Hugh McDermott
Roles Editor
Rating64% 3.247713.247713.247713.247713.24771
In 1964, the United Nations (UN) has launched a rocket flight to the Moon. A multi-national group of astronauts in the UN spacecraft land on the Moon, believing themselves to be the first lunar explorers. They discover a British Union Jack on the surface and a note naming Katherine Callender, claiming the Moon for Queen Victoria. Attempting to trace Callender, UN authorities find she has died, but find her husband Arnold Bedford now an old man in an old people's home. The nursing home staff do not let him watch television reports of the expedition because, according to the matron, it "excites him", dismissing his claims to have been on the Moon as insane delusion. The UN representatives question him about the Moon and he tells them his story. The rest of the film, as a flashback, shows what Bedford and Professor Cavor did in the 1890s.
Jason and the Argonauts, 1h45
Directed by Don Chaffey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films based on mythology, Poésie, Transport films, Films about dragons, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Adaptation d'un poème, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Nigel Green
Roles Editor
Rating72% 3.6487153.6487153.6487153.6487153.648715
Pelias (Douglas Wilmer), misinterpreting the prophecy given to him by the god Zeus (Niall MacGinnis), usurps the throne of Thessaly by killing King Aristo and most of his family. The infant Jason is spirited out by one of Aristo's soldiers. Pelias encounters one of the king's daughters, Briseis (Davinia Taylor), seeking sanctuary in the temple of the goddess Hera (Honor Blackman) and slays her. Because the murder has profaned her temple, the angry Hera becomes Jason's protector. She, disguised as the high Priestess, warns Pelias to beware of a man wearing one sandal.
The Child and the Killer, 1h5
Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Robert Arden, Richard Williams, Patricia Driscoll, Robert Raglan
Roles Editor
Rating47% 2.368672.368672.368672.368672.36867
Joe, a US army officer, is on the run after committing murder. He invades the home of the widowed Peggy, and orders her son Tommy at gunpoint to guide him through the backwaters of the English countryside to safety. But he reckons without U.S. army Captain Mather, who is in love with Tommy's mother.
The Great Van Robbery, 1h11
Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Denis Shaw, Kay Callard, Philip Saville, Guido Lorraine, Julian Orchard, Robert Raglan
Roles Editor
Rating58% 2.90712.90712.90712.90712.9071
Scotland Yard teams up with Interpol to discover the origins of stolen money in a private bank account in Rio de Janeiro. Assigning their best detective Caesar Smith to the case, the money is soon traced to a robbery from a Royal Mint van. Investigations lead to a coffee storehouse where a worker is found murdered and the remaining loot discovered.
A Woman Possessed, 1h8
Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Margaretta Scott, Francis Matthews, Kay Callard, Alison Leggatt, Jan Holden, Ian Fleming
Roles Editor
Rating56% 2.817052.817052.817052.817052.81705
John Winthrop, an English doctor, returns from a trip to America with his new fiancee, Ann. He is met with disapproval from his wealthy, domineering mother, Katherine, who is vocal in her dislike of Ann. On discovering Ann has a heart condition, Katherine insists the couple move in with her. One day the mother accidentally gives her daughter-in-law the wrong medication and Ann nearly dies. Fortunately, the doctor saves his wife; but then accuses his mother of attempted murder. In the end, it turns out Emma the maid was responsible for accidentally switching the pills, and with the crisis over, mother, son and daughter-in-law realise they must settle the differences between them.
Abdullah's Harem, 1h43
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Kay Kendall, Sydney Chaplin, Gregory Ratoff, Alexander D'Arcy, Marina Berti
Roles Editor
Rating49% 2.4594152.4594152.4594152.4594152.459415
The film is set in a Middle Eastern country whose absolute ruler, Abdullah (Gregory Ratoff), lives a life of great luxury, surrounded by lovely women. When Ronnie, a beautiful English model (Kay Kendall), arrives, Abdullah falls for her and offers her great riches. She resists his advances as she is more interested in Ahmed (Sydney Chaplin), an officer in the King's army. While this is going on, Abdullah is unaware of the growing discontent among his subjects which threatens to overthrow him.
The Reluctant Bride, 1h15
Directed by Henry Cass
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors John Carroll, Virginia Bruce, Brian Oulton, Arthur Lowe, Kay Callard, Anita Sharp-Bolster
Roles Editor
Rating53% 2.667012.667012.667012.667012.66701
Jeff Longstreet and Laura Weeks are paired together to take care of a group of wild children whose parents are lost on an African safari. The children make attempts to press Jeff and Laura into a romantic relationship while breaking them away from their fiancees.
One Way Out, 1h1
Directed by Francis Searle
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jill Adams, Eddie Byrne, Lyndon Brook, John Chandos, Ian Wilson, Samuel John Kydd
Roles Editor
Rating60% 3.002253.002253.002253.002253.00225
Superintendent Harcourt is on the verge of retiring from the police force and in his final case, seeks to put away Danvers, a ruthless fence. Danvers however, tries to buy off Harcourt, and when this fails, attempts to implicate the Superintendent's daughter Shirley in a bank robbery. Danvers uses another crook Leslie Parrish, to blackmail Harcourt to drop the case against him. When the Superintendent retires, he decides to pursue Danvers as a civilian.
Blackout
Blackout (1954)
, 1h27
Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies, Eleanor Summerfield, Michael Golden, Jill Melford
Roles Editor
Rating61% 3.096663.096663.096663.096663.09666
Casey Morrow, un Américain, est en train de se saouler dans un night-club de Londres, lorsqu'il est approché par une jeune femme qui lui offre un verre. Casey lui dit qu'il n'a plus un sou, et lorsqu'ils quittent le club, elle lui propose de lui donner 500 livres s'il se marie avec elle.
Blood Orange, 1h16
Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Tom Conway, Mila Parély, Naomi Chance, Eric Pohlmann, Richard Wattis, Eileen Way
Roles Editor
Rating52% 2.628912.628912.628912.628912.62891
Un détective privé continue son enquête sur un vol de bijoux après qu'un mannequin a été assassiné alors qu'elle détenait des informations pour lui.
Four Sided Triangle, 1h21
Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Barbara Payton, Glyn Dearman, James Hayter, John Van Eyssen, Percy Marmont, Seán Barrett
Roles Editor
Rating58% 2.903182.903182.903182.903182.90318
Dr. Harvey, a rural physician, breaks the fourth wall to relate an unusual occurrence that happened in his village. The bulk of the story is told in flashback.