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Frank Lawton Mokeley (* 30. September 1904 in London, England; † 10. Juni 1969 ebenda) war ein britischer Schauspieler . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben und Wirken. 2 Filmografie (Auswahl) 3 Weblinks. 4 Einzelnachweise. Leben und Wirken. Frank Lawton wurde als Sohn von Theaterschauspielern in London geboren.
Filmography. References. External links. Frank Lawton Mokeley (30 September 1904 – 10 June 1969) was an English actor. His parents were stage players Daisy May Collier and Frank Lawton (I). [citation needed] . His first major screen credit was Young Woodley (1930).
YearTitleRole1930Woodley1930Jimmy Hilton1931Rolf Hornblower1931Basil OwenFrank Lawton (1904-1969) was a British actor who appeared in films such as A Night to Remember, The Invisible Ray and Cavalcade. He was also a stage actor and a major in the U.S. Army during World War II.
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Frank Lawton ist ein britisch Schauspieler. Entdecke seine Biographie, Details seiner 27 Karriere-Jahre und alle News.
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In 1912, the luxurious Titanic is the largest vessel afloat and is widely believed to be unsinkable. On 10 April, Titanic sails from Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York. On 14 April, in the Atlantic, the ship receives a number of ice warnings from steamers, which are relayed to Captain Edward Smith, who orders a lookout. That evening, the ...
Cast notes: 1. Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith, and Michael Goodliffe all featured later in Sink the Bismarck!. 2. Gordon Holdom - baritone, sang the song "Nearer, My God, to Thee" dubbed. 3. Desmond Llewelynmakes an uncredited appearance as a gate steward who prevents the third class passengers from entering the first class deck. 4. Peter Burtonma...
Original book
The film is based on Walter Lord's book A Night to Remember (1955), but in Ray Johnson's documentary The Making of 'A Night to Remember' (1993), Lord says that when he wrote his book, there was no mass interest in the Titanic, and he was the first writer in four decades to attempt a grand-scale history of the disaster, synthesising written sources and survivors' first-hand accounts. Lord dated the genesis of his interest in the subject to childhood. So did producer MacQuitty, who had vivid me...
1956 television adaptation
The book had previously been adapted as a live American TV production, screened by NBC and sponsored by Kraft Foods as part of the Kraft Television Theatre series on 28 March 1956. It has been described as "the biggest, most lavish, most expensive thing of its kind" attempted up to that point, with 31 sets, 107 actors, 72 speaking parts, and 3,000 gallons of water and costing $95,000 ($816,000 at 2023 prices). George Roy Hill directed and Claude Rains narrated – a practice borrowed from radio...
Development
The film adaptation came about after its eventual director, Roy Ward Baker, and its producer, Belfast-born William MacQuitty, both acquired copies of the book -– Baker from his favourite bookshop and MacQuitty from his wife – and decided to obtain the film rights. MacQuitty succeeded in raising finance from John Davis at the Rank Organisation, who in the late 1950s were expanding into bigger-budgeted filmmaking. The job of directing was assigned to Roy Baker, who was under contract to Rank, a...
The film is regarded as the most historically accurate Titanic film, except for not featuring the ship breaking in two.[by whom?] (There was still doubt about this fact when the book and film were produced. The accepted view at the time, and the result of the inquiries, was that she sank intact; it was only confirmed that she split after the wreck ...
The world premiere was on 3 July 1958, at the Odeon Leicester Square. Boxhall and Third Officer Herbert Pitman attended the premier along with survivor Walter Nichols. Titanic survivor Elizabeth Dowdell attended the American premiere in New Yorkon Tuesday 16 December 1958.
Critical reception
After its December 1958 US premiere, Bosley Crowthercalled the film a "tense, exciting and supremely awesome drama...[that] puts the story of the great disaster in simple human terms and yet brings it all into a drama of monumental unity and scope"; according to Crowther: The film won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film, and received high praise from reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Box office
The film was one of the twenty most popular films of the year in Britain according to Motion Picture Herald, but it was only a modest commercial success due to the size of its original budget and its relative underperformance at the American box office. Kinematograph Weeklylisted it as being "in the money" at the British box office in 1958. By 2001, it had still not made a profit, in part because it was issued as part of a slate of ten films and all of its profits were cross-collateralised.
Reputation today
According to Professor Paul Heyer, the film helped to spark the wave of disaster films that included The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). Heyer comments that it "still stands as the definitive cinematic telling of the story and the prototype and finest example of the disaster-film genre". On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has a score of 100% based on twenty-two critical reviews and a 90% value according to audience responses. The film has been described as "the definitiv...
A Night to Remember was released by the Criterion Collection on DVD in May 1998.Initial versions of the DVD omitted Lightoller finding the child to be dead and putting it in the water. A new DVD and a high-definition Blu-ray edition were released on 27 March 2012 to commemorate the centennial of the sinking.
Aldridge, Rebecca (2008). The Sinking of the Titanic. New York: Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7910-9643-7.Anderson, D. Brian (2005). The Titanic in Print and on Screen. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-1786-2.Barczewski, Stephanie (2006). Titanic: A Night Remembered. London: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-85285-500-0.Barnes, Julian (2010). A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. London: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4090-8865-3.A Night to Remember at IMDbA Night to Remember at the TCM Movie DatabaseA Night to Remember at AllMovieA Night to Remember at Rotten TomatoesFrank Lawton was an English actor who appeared in many films and TV shows from 1930 to 1963. He is known for his roles in The Devil-Doll, David Copperfield, A Night to Remember, and The Winslow Boy.
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