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Max Varnel is a Director French born on 21 march 1925 at Paris (France)
Max Varnel (1925–1996) was a French-born film and television director who worked primarily in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Born Max Le Bozec in Paris, France, he was the son of film producer/director Marcel Varnel. He began his career in 1951 as the assistant director of The Magic Box and continued in this capacity for The Card, Devil Girl from Mars, and The Cockleshell Heroes, among others. His sole directing credits encompass a long string of B movies, including Top Floor Girl, Web of Suspicion, The Child and the Killer, Crash Drive, Moment of Indiscretion, A Woman Possessed, and Mrs. Gibbons' Boys.
Varnel's television credits include The Vise, Interpol Calling, The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, Softly Softly, and The Troubleshooters in the UK, and The Evil Touch, Glenview High, The Young Doctors, and Neighbours in Australia, where he emigrated in the early 1970s.
Varnel died of a heart attack in Sydney at the age of 70.
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Max Varnel
Birth name Max Le Bozec
Nationality France
Birth 21 march 1925 at Paris (France)
Death 15 january 1996 (at 70 years) at Sydney (Australie)
Nationality France
Birth 21 march 1925 at Paris (France)
Death 15 january 1996 (at 70 years) at Sydney (Australie)
Born Max Le Bozec in Paris, France, he was the son of film producer/director Marcel Varnel. He began his career in 1951 as the assistant director of The Magic Box and continued in this capacity for The Card, Devil Girl from Mars, and The Cockleshell Heroes, among others. His sole directing credits encompass a long string of B movies, including Top Floor Girl, Web of Suspicion, The Child and the Killer, Crash Drive, Moment of Indiscretion, A Woman Possessed, and Mrs. Gibbons' Boys.
Varnel's television credits include The Vise, Interpol Calling, The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, Softly Softly, and The Troubleshooters in the UK, and The Evil Touch, Glenview High, The Young Doctors, and Neighbours in Australia, where he emigrated in the early 1970s.
Varnel died of a heart attack in Sydney at the age of 70.
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Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1962)
, 1h22Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Kathleen Harrison, Lionel Jeffries, Diana Dors, John Le Mesurier, David Lodge, Dick Emery
Rating60%
An ageing widow finally finds new love and happiness; but matters are complicated when her two convict sons escape from prison and beg her to hide them.
The Silent Invasion (1962)
, 1h10Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Eric Flynn, Petra Davies, Francis De Wolff, Martin Benson, Noël Dyson, André Maranne
Rating47%
During WW II, a German garrison is stationed in the small French town of Mereux. French local Maria falls in love with Nazi captain Eric Von Strafen. However, the romance comes to an abrupt end when her brother, a saboteur working for the Resistance, is killed. Maria now vows to exact revenge and to help the French Resistance any way she can.
Enter Inspector Duval (1961)
Directed by Max Varnel
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Anton Diffring, Diane Hart, Mark Singleton
Rating53%
A French policeman, Inspector Duval, is brought to London to help his British colleagues crack a case. It was based on a story by Jacques Monteux.
Murder in Eden (1961)
, 1h3Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Ray McAnally, Norman Rodway, Mark Singleton, Angela Douglas
Rating55%
After he discovers a famous painting is fake, a noted art critic is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Inspector Sharkey of Scotland Yard joins forces with French magazine reporter Geneviève Beaujean to investigate.
Return of a Stranger (1961)
Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors John Ireland, Ray Austin, Susan Stephen, Cyril Shaps, Patrick McAlinney, Kevin Stoney
Rating52%
Part-Time Wife (1961)
, 1h10Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Anton Rodgers, Nyree Dawn Porter, Mark Singleton
Rating54%
Footloose and fancy-free bachelor Drew needs to find a wife to impress a visiting rich uncle. The uncle has made it clear Drew will only inherit his business when he's married and respectable. Drew's friends Tom and Jenny agree to help him out by allowing Jenny to pose as his wife. Tom is a struggling insurance salesman, and Drew promises him a big insurance deal to add incentive. Farcical complications ensue.
Fate Takes a Hand (1961)
Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Ronald Howard, Brian Cobby, Basil Dignam, Jack Watson, Peter Butterworth, Valentine Dyall
Rating59%
A Taste of Money (1960)
, 1h11Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Dick Emery, Jean Cadell, John Bennett, Ralph Michael
An elderly spinster who works as a cashier for an insurance company, plots to rob her employers, by concocting the perfect crime.
Sentenced for Life (1960)
, 1h4Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Basil Dignam, Jack Gwillim, Francis Matthews, Nyree Dawn Porter
Rating64%
Engineer John Richards is wrongly accused of selling secrets to enemy agents, and receives a life sentence in prison. Richards suspects his ex-partner Ralph Thompson is responsible for framing him, and asks his son, Jim, a law student, to investigate.
Web of Suspicion (1960)
, 1h10Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Philip Friend, Susan Beaumont
Schoolteacher Bradley Wells is wrongly accused of murdering a girl pupil, and is nearly lynched by angry townspeople. But with the help of his art teacher girlfriend Janet he discovers the real murderer, and works with Janet to clear his name and save the school from another tragedy.
Top Floor Girl (1959)
, 1h11Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Kay Callard, Maurice Kaufmann, Brian Nissen, Liz Fraser
Crash Drive (1959)
, 1h5Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Themes Sports films
Actors Dermot Walsh, Wendy Williams, Ian Fleming, Anton Rodgers, Grace Arnold, Rolf Harris
Rating46%
Paul Dixon is an international racing driver severely depressed after being paralysed from the waist down in a crash. He seems to have lost everything, including his will to live. His estranged wife Ann returns to him in the wake of the accident and attempts to cure him of his despair.
No Safety Ahead (1959)
, 1h8Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Susan Beaumont, Denis Shaw, Gordon Boyd, Robert Raglan, Mark Singleton, Terence Cooper
An office clerk unwittingly joins a gang.
The Child and the Killer (1959)
, 1h5Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Robert Arden, Richard Williams, Patricia Driscoll, Robert Raglan
Rating47%
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 (1959)
, 1h11Directed by Max Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Denis Shaw, Kay Callard, Philip Saville, Guido Lorraine, Julian Orchard, Robert Raglan
Rating59%
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.