Charles Frend
Charles Frend (21 November 1909, Pulborough, Sussex – 8 January 1977) was an English film director. Charles Frend started his career at British International Pictures in 1931 and after editing Hitchcock's Waltzes from Vienna (1934) moved to Gaumont British Pictures in 1933 where he worked as an editor on Alfred Hitchcock's movies Secret Agent (1936), Sabotage (1936) and Young and Innocent (1937). For several years, Frend was based at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's British facilities at Elstree, where he edited MGM's A Yank at Oxford (1938), The Citadel (1938) and Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939). Frend graduated to director in 1942, with a series of above-average propaganda pictures and documentaries. After the war, he undertook several prestigious assignments including Scott of the Antarctic (1948) and The Cruel Sea (1953). While most of his films were large-scale and dramatic in nature, Frend was also capable of turning out such modest comedies as A Run for Your Money (1949) and Barnacle Bill (1957). His 1956 film The Long Arm won the Silver Bear for an Outstanding Single Achievement award at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Cone of Silence
Veteran pilot George Gort faces a Court of Inquiry as the result of the crash of a Phoenix jet airliner. He is severly cross-examined by Sir Arnold Hobbes Q.C. and found guilty of a pilot error. The pressure mounts on Gort when Captain Judd accuses him of bringing the aircraft in too low at...Watch Movie -
Girl on Approval
Sheila's fourteen. Her father abandoned her as a baby, her mum's in jail and she's stuck in a children's home. Every family that's tried to look after her has found her too difficult. Now Anne and John Howland want to foster Sheila. But if they can't make a home for her, her...Watch Movie

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