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Alexander Mackendrick est né à Boston, dans l’État du Massachusetts. Il était le fils unique de Francis Robert Mackendrick et de Martha Mackendrick. Originaires de Glasgow en Écosse, ils avaient émigré aux États-Unis en 1911. Son père, ingénieur civil, travaillait dans la construction navale. Alors que Mackendrick n’avait que six ...
Sweet Smell of Success. Cartel original de la película. Sweet Smell of Success (también conocida como El dulce sabor del éxito y Chantaje en Broadway) es una película estadounidense del año 1957, de género dramático y negro, dirigida por Alexander Mackendrick e interpretada por Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison y Martin Milner ...
Alexander Mackendrick was an American-born director and professor, long based in Scotland. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and later moved to Scotland. He began making television commercials before moving into post-production editing and directing films, most notably for Ealing Studios where his films include Whisky Galore! (1949), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Maggie (1954), and ...
Running time. 91 minutes. Country. United Kingdom. Language. English. The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy crime film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios. It stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner, and Katie Johnson as the old lady, Mrs. Wilberforce. [2]
Plot. Ten-year-old English boy Sammy Hartland lives in Port Said, Egypt, with his parents. When they are killed in a bombing during the Suez Crisis, the boy flees the city in the ensuing panic. He sets out to reach his only living relative, an aunt who lives 5,000 miles to the south in Durban, South Africa - at the other end of the continent ...
23 de oct. de 2020 · Alexander Mackendrick’s The Ladykillers (1955) marked the end of an era in more ways than one. It wasn’t only the last of the great Ealing comedies, but was the last film to be released by Ealing before the studios were sold to the BBC and Michael Balcon led his depleted team away to live out a sad, ghostly afterlife in a corner of the MGM lot at Borehamwood.
Box office. £90,000 [2] The Man in the White Suit is a 1951 British satirical science fiction comedy film made by Ealing Studios. It stars Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker and was directed by Alexander Mackendrick. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Screenplay) for Roger MacDougall, John Dighton and ...
