Henry Kendall & Ida Lupino in "The Ghost Camera" (1933) - a British Mystery Thriller скачать в хорошем качестве

Henry Kendall & Ida Lupino in "The Ghost Camera" (1933) - a British Mystery Thriller

John Gray (Henry Kendall) returns from a seaside holiday and discovers a camera has mysteriously appeared in his car. When he develops the negatives, one of the photos appears to show a man stabbing another. The others offer clues to where the event took place. A man tries to steal the camera from John, and takes the negative. After identifying the location of a woman in one of the photos, John tracks down Mary Elton (Ida Lupino), whose missing brother, Ernest Elton (John Mills ), took the photos before disappearing. She and he go on a search through the countryside to try to locate her missing brother. As they investigate, they discover Ernest may be involved in a jewel robbery and murder, and the police also appear to be on his trail. This leads them to a local inn, where Mary misleads John, and later confesses that she was protecting her brother. They find evidence that Ernest was trying to expose the thieves involved in the robbery, by setting up his camera to capture evidence of them. The camera photographed the fatal struggle of the thieves and Ernest fled, dropping the camera in John's car. Ernest is arrested but later confesses his role in the crime. John, suspecting that the policeman investigating the case might actually be the murderer, confronts him and uncovers the truth. The murderer is caught, Ernest is released, and John and Mary, now in love, become engaged. A 1933 British Black & White comedy crime mystery romance thriller film directed by Bernard Vorhaus, produced by Julius Hagen, adapted for the screen by H. Fowler Mear, based on a short story by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon "A Mystery Narrative", cinematography by Ernest Palmer, starring Henry Kendall, Ida Lupino, John Mills, Victor Stanley, George Merritt, Felix Aylmer, Davina Craig, and Fred Groves. Released by RKO Radio Pictures. The sixth screen appearance of Ida Lupino (May Elton). Lupino was 15 years old when she made this film. Henry Kendall (1897-1962), born in London, was an English stage and film actor, theatre director and revue artiste. He was educated at the City of London School. He began his stage career "walking on" (as a non-speaking extra) in "Tommy Atkins" at the Lyceum Theatre in 1914. From then he was first a chorus membe, then a supporting player; and for nine months a member of the Old Vic company, playing juvenile parts in Shakespeare repertory. In the First World War, he served with distinction from 1916–1919, in the Royal Flying Corps winning the Air Force Cross as a captain. Resuming his stage career in 1919 he appeared mostly in the West End, with one excursion to Broadway and occasional tours of the British provinces, particularly during the Second World War. He made more than 40 films. As a theatre director he was responsible for more than 20 productions, in a minority of which he also starred. This film contains the first ever known pre-credit sequence. Despite being made quickly on a low budget, the film has come to be considered one of the most successful Quota quickies made during the 1930s. The Cinematograph Films Act 1927 was an act of the UK Parliament designed to stimulate the declining British film industry. It received royal assent on 22 December 1927 and came into force on 1 April 1928. The act introduced a requirement for British cinemas to show a quota of British films for a duration of 10 years. Its supporters believed that it would promote the emergence of a vertically integrated film industry, with production, distribution and exhibition infrastructure controlled by the same companies. Following the successful release of the independently made "Money For Speed" (1933), co-starring Ida Lupino and edited by David Lean, Bernard Vorhaus accepted an offer to work for Twickenham Studios, at that time one of Britain's busiest. Twickenham's resident editor, Jack Harris, was otherwise busy and so Vorhaus was able to get Lean to edit this, one of Vorhaus' best-known British films which again starred Lupino as a girl with a guilty secret. This neat little thriller was based on a story by J. Jefferson Farjeon, who also provided material for Hitchcock's "Number Seventeen" (1932) and three early films by Michael Powell, including "The Phantom Light" (1934). The film shows many of the characteristic touches that graced Vorhaus and Lean's previous collaboration, with inventive camerawork and fast pacing and a fondness for using real locations whenever possible. The story is decked out with a number of unusual and innovative stylistic touches, such as a pre-credit sequence and creative use of subjective camera during a flashback, devices that were highly original at the time and would only become more common years later. Lupino as actress and David Lean as editor in a surprisingly fun B-movie. An indubitably and splendidly exceptional and delightful mystery featuring lively characters and a clever plot. A very stylish and witty production. It's genius, even if it's low budget wonderful nonsense.