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Max Peter Benedict is a Editor born on 1 january 1921 at Vienna (Austria)
Max Benedict (1921 – 20 April, 1986) was an Austrian born, British film editor. He is credited on such films as The Blue Max (1966), Shaft in Africa (1973), Whistle Down the Wind (1961) and Guns at Batasi (1964).
Max Benedict began his film career working with the British government during World War II. This led to his becoming a script researcher for directors Roy and John Boulting. He would later become a film editor, a translator of plays, a film critic, and a lecturer at the National Film School.
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Birth 1 january 1921 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 20 april 1986 (at 65 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Death 20 april 1986 (at 65 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Max Benedict began his film career working with the British government during World War II. This led to his becoming a script researcher for directors Roy and John Boulting. He would later become a film editor, a translator of plays, a film critic, and a lecturer at the National Film School.
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael (1979)
, 1h34Directed by Silvio Narizzano
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Murphy, Rosalind Cash, John Standing, Phil Daniels
Rating53%
Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)
, 1h35Directed by Silvio Narizzano
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Bud Cort, Samantha Eggar, Kenneth Griffith, Chris Wiggins, Gary Reineke, Michael J. Reynolds
Rating68%
Dans les années 1930, le jeune Max Brown arrive de la ville pour tenir son premier poste d'instituteur dans un coin perdu d'une région rurale de l'Ouest canadien. Il est confronté à toutes sortes de difficultés : à des élèves indisciplinés, aux mœurs rétrogrades des paysans, à la solitude, confiné dans une toute petite pièce comme logement de fonction. Il s'éprend d'un amour sans issue pour Alice, la femme d'un fermier. Après une année scolaire chaotique, le prof réussit à établir de bons et solides rapports avec ses élèves.
Shaft in Africa (1973)
, 1h52Directed by John Guillermin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about immigration, Films about terrorism, La précarité
Actors Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Neda Arnerić, Vonetta McGee, Frank McRae, Spiros Focás
Rating59%
At home in his New York City apartment, John Shaft is drugged with a tranquilizer dart, then kidnapped and persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor to travel to Africa (much of the movie was filmed in Ethiopia), assuming the identity of a native-speaking itinerant worker. His job is to help break a criminal ring that is smuggling immigrants into Europe then exploiting them. But the villains have heard that he is on his way.
Eagle in a Cage (1972)
, 1h43Directed by Fielder Cook
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films, French Revolution films
Actors John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Billie Whitelaw, Kenneth Haigh, Moses Gunn, Ferdy Mayne
Rating58%
After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo and surrender to the British Empire, Napoleon Bonaparte is delivered into exile and imprisonment on St. Helena, setting the scene for a psychological character study of the fallen Emperor and those upon the island with him as he rakes over the ashes of his career. After a failed escape attempt, the British Government offers him a chance for a return to limited power in France once again as a buffer against instability there, however on the point of departure he is afflicted by the symptoms of stomach cancer and the offer is in consequence withdrawn, leaving him entrapped on the island and exiting history's stage.
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
, 1h27Directed by Gordon Hessler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Romance
Actors Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Celi, Maria Perschy, Lilli Palmer
Rating52%
The story revolves around an early 20th century theatre troupe in Paris specializing in gory, naturalistic horror plays in the fashion of the Grand Guignol. The director, Cesar Charron (Jason Robards), is presenting Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue". Cesar's wife, the actress Madeline (Christine Kaufmann), whose mother (Lilli Palmer) had been murdered by axe, is haunted by nightmares of an ax-wielding man. Then, suddenly, Rene Marot (Herbert Lom), a former lover of Madeline's mother thought long dead after being horribly disfigured on stage, mysteriously returns and begins murdering members and ex-members of the acting troupe, confounding the Paris police, who initially suspect Cesar.
The Oblong Box (1969)
, 1h31Directed by Gordon Hessler
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Actors Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Sally Geeson, Alister Williamson, Uta Levka
Rating58%
The film takes place in England in 1865. Having been grotesquely disfigured in an African voodoo ceremony for a transgression against the native populace, Sir Edward Markham (Alister Williamson) is kept locked in his room by his guilt-ridden brother, Julian (Vincent Price). Tiring of his captivity, Sir Edward plots to escape by faking his death. With the help of the crooked family lawyer, Trench (Peter Arne), they hire witchdoctor N'Galo (Harry Baird) to concoct a drug to put Sir Edward into a deathlike trance. Before Trench has time to act, Julian finds his "dead" brother and puts him in a coffin (the title's "oblong box"). Embarrassed by his brother's appearance, Julian asks Trench to find a proxy body for Sir Edward's lying in state. Trench and N'Galo murder landlord Tom Hacket (Maxwell Shaw) and offer his corpse to Julian. After the wake, Trench and his young companion Norton (Carl Rigg), dispose of Hacket's body in a nearby river, while Julian has Sir Edward buried. Now free of his brother, Julian marries his young fiancée, Elizabeth (Hilary Dwyer), while Trench, Norton and N'Galo go their separate ways.
The Magus (1968)
, 1h57Directed by Guy Green
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen, Anna Karina, Julian Glover, Jerome Willis
Rating56%
Nicholas Urfe is a young Englishman who has taken a teaching position on the Greek island of Phraxos following the previous instructor's suicide. For Nicholas it is a chance for different surroundings, and it is also an attempt to escape his relationship with his emotionally unstable lover, Anne.
Fathom (1967)
, 1h39Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Action, Adventure
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Anthony Franciosa, Raquel Welch, Ronald Fraser, Richard Briers, Tutte Lemkow, Clive Revill
Rating57%
Fathom Harvill, a beautiful skydiver, is in Spain with a U.S. parachute team. She is abducted by a man called Timothy and taken to see Douglas Campbell, who says he is a Scottish agent working for NATO and wants Fathom to help him find a triggering mechanism for a nuclear weapon that has gone missing in the Mediterranean.
The Blue Max (1966)
, 2h36Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Jeremy Kemp, Karl Michael Vogler, Harry Townes
Rating70%
German Corporal Bruno Stachel (George Peppard) leaves the fighting in the trenches to become an officer and fighter pilot in the German Army Air Service. Joining a squadron in spring 1918, he sets his sights on winning Imperial Germany's highest military decoration for valor, the Pour le Mérite, nicknamed the "Blue Max", for which he must shoot down 20 aircraft.
Rapture (1965)
, 1h44Directed by John Guillermin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Melvyn Douglas, Dean Stockwell, Patricia Gozzi, Gunnel Lindblom, Peter Sallis, Ellen Pollock
Rating71%
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farmhouse in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up their relationship.
Guns at Batasi (1964)
, 1h43Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton, Mia Farrow, Cecil Parker
Rating70%
A group of veteran British sergeants, headed by an ultra-correct, order-barking Regimental Sergeant Major (Richard Attenborough), are caught between two dissident factions in an unnamed newly created African state (most likely Kenya, since the character of RSM Lauderdale mentions that the Turkana people live in the north, which is where they live in Kenya. The African soldiers also speak amongst themselves in Kiswahili, the lingua franca of the region). The story neatly exposes the feelings of the professional NCOs, their officers and the African soldiers and officers, who are still painfully new to both guns and political slogans.
The Very Edge (1963)
, 1h30Directed by Cyril Frankel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Anne Heywood, Richard Todd, Jack Hedley, Jeremy Brett, Nicole Maurey, Maurice Denham
Rating64%
What a Crazy World (1963)
, 1h28Directed by Michael Carreras
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Joe Brown, Harry H. Corbett, Michael Ripper, Monte Landis, Denise Coffey, Billy Murray
Rating57%
Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
, 1h28Directed by John Guillermin
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jock Mahoney, Leo Gordon, Feroz Khan, Simi Garewal, Jagdish Raj
Rating53%
Tarzan is called to India to save three hundred elephants, that will be drowned if a dam is opened to create a man-made lake to power an electric plant. Tarzan is pitted against two engineers who ignore the catastrophic results their work will create.
Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
, 1h39Directed by Bryan Forbes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Hayley Mills, Bernard Lee, Alan Bates, Norman Bird, Diane Clare, John Arnatt
Rating75%
The plot follows the lives of three Lancashire farm children who discover a fugitive hiding in their barn. The bearded man, referred to as "Blakey" by the police, is mistaken for Jesus Christ by the children, who are influenced by stories they have heard at Sunday school. The fugitive makes no attempt to correct their mistake, especially when he discovers the eldest child, Kathy, is determined to protect him from discovery by the local police. We learn from a poster that he is wanted for murder.