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Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949) and Oliver! (1968). He won the Palme d'Or for The Third Man and the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for Oliver!
The son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, May Pinney Reed, Carol Reed was born in Putney, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury, an independent school. Reed served in the British Army during the Second World War, giving him many experiences which appeared in his later films.
He embarked on an acting career while still in his teens, but soon went into the role of producer/director. He worked as an Assistant Director with Basil Dean on the films Autumn Crocus, Lorna Doone and Loyalties and with Thorold Dickinson on Java Head. As director he was responsible for The Stars Look Down (1939), Kipps (1941), Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), Outcast of the Islands (1952), Our Man in Havana (1959), and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, and Our Man in Havana are based on the work of Graham Greene.
Actors: Jennifer Love Hewitt (producer), Richard Marvin (composer), Howard Braunstein (producer), Chelah Horsdal (actress), Howard Braunstein (producer), Michael Jaffe (producer), Lynda Boyd (actress), Dolores Drake (actress), Jennifer Love Hewitt (actress), Mark Acheson (actor), Mark Brandon (actor), Mark Oliver (actor), Garry Chalk (actor), Lynn Josephson Delaney (miscellaneous crew), Cybill Shepherd (actress),
Plot: A former beauty queen is forced to take a job at a massage parlor when her family faces foreclosure on their home after her husband suffers an injury that keeps him from working. Unfortunately for her she soon learns that her clients expect more than a rubdown.
Keywords: alarm-clock, asleep-at-the-wheel, bank, bank-loan, bar, bare-chested-male, based-on-true-story, black-teddy, boxer-shorts, bra-removingActors: Maurice Roëves (actor), Jason Isaacs (actor), William Diver (editor), Rosalind Bennett (actress), Robert Neufeld (composer), Bill Anderson (writer), Bill Anderson (director), Timothy Stark (actor), Nathan Grower (actor), Julius Grower (actor),
Plot: Jim Reed, a detective, investigates a case of alleged child abuse. But remaining psychologically detached proves difficult. Soon, Jim finds himself questioning his relationships with his father and his two young sons Colin and Tom.
Keywords: independent-filmActors: Bill Williams (actor), Herbert Moulton (producer), Ruth Warrick (actress), Dick Simmons (actor), S. Roy Luby (producer), William F. Claxton (director), Robert Rockwell (actor), Barry Coe (actor), Judi Meredith (actress), Sam Hersh (producer), Cherylene Lee (actress), Herman W. Gockel (miscellaneous crew), Frank Ryhlick (writer),
Genres: Drama,Pushing up on Carlisle Road into the seething shadows
Through the plastic visor â" a hail of broken kerbstone
Fire-lit-faces, all the noise â" so much hatred
What I remember thinking â" I can't believe this is happening
All I remember thinking
Came home four, four-thirty, Emma was waiting up for me
News chanel drone on the TV, her arms clapsed around her knee
She looked up but said nothing
I went up to the kids bedroom, touched their sleeping faces
Wondered how I could protect them