#Allan Westbrook

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (4ª Temp.)

Episodio 22: ''World's End''

 • Dirección: Billy Gierhart

 • Guion: Jeffrey Bell

 • Cinematografía: Allan Westbrook

 • Cast: Gabriel Luna, Mallory Jansen

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Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd and John Westbrook in The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)

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The Tomb of Ligeia

directed by Roger Corman, 1964

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Room at the Top (1959) Jack Clayton

February 5th 2023

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Simone Signoret and Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top (Jack Clayton, 1959)

Cast: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston, Hermione Baddeley, Allan Cuthbertson, Raymond Huntley, John Westbrook, Ambrosine Phillpotts. Screenplay: Neil Paterson, based on a novel by John Braine. Cinematography: Freddie Francis. Art direction: Ralph W. Brinton. Music: Mario Nascimbene

Laurence Harvey's narrow eyes and sharpish features (and a long brush cut that makes him look a little like Clint Eastwood) provide the right wolfish look for Joe Lampton, a young man from the provinces on the make. Heir to such classic challengers to the class system as Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Balzac's Lucien de Rubempré, and Dreiser's Clyde Griffiths, Lampton is determined to break down the British barriers to upward movement. He arrives in the Yorkshire city of Warnley to take on a government job and walks right into a hormonal stew, the eager young men and women of his office casting eyes on one another, but especially on the newcomer. But Lampton knows what he wants when he sees her: a rich young woman named Susan Brown (Heather Sears), whose father is a local factory owner. Learning that Susan is a member of an amateur theatrical group, Lampton joins up, only to find himself edged aside by the well-to-do Jack Wales (John Westbrook), who is paying court to Susan. Every move Lampton makes to ingratiate himself with Susan, who is inclined to return his attentions, is thwarted by her parents, especially her formidably snobbish mother (Ambrosine Phillpotts). We sense Mrs. Brown's backstory: She has married rich herself, to a working-class self-made man, and is determined to keep climbing higher -- no lower-class Lamptons allowed. Determined as he is to win Susan, whose parents send her away on an extended vacation on the Riviera,  Lampton comforts himself with another member of the theater company, Alice Aisgill (Simone Signoret), an older woman with a bullying, unfaithful husband. When Susan returns, Lampton resumes his pursuit of her, but finds that he has fallen in love with Alice, whose maturity offers something that makes Susan's girlishness seem cloying. When he manages to seduce Susan, he's bored and annoyed by her reaction to losing her virginity: She doesn't feel different, she simpers and keeps asking him if she looks different. But Susan gets pregnant, forcing the Browns into an accommodation with him: marriage and a lucrative job -- everything he wanted. The crisis with Alice this precipitates is predictable, but the film makes a sharp turn into melodrama before the ending. Room at the Top was a hit, winning Simone Signoret a best actress Oscar and Harvey a nomination (along with a nomination for Hermione Baddeley in the very small role of the friend who lends Alice her flat for the trysts with Lampton). It's a little slow in the middle section, as the affair with Alice progresses, and Harvey was an actor of limited range, so the shift from the predatory Lampton of the first part of the film to the man infatuated with Alice doesn't quite come off. But it's a perfect example of the Angry Young Men films, plays, and novels that revolutionized British culture in the austere postwar 1950s.

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A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the “Red Death” plague that stalks the land. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Prince Prospero: Vincent Price Juliana: Hazel Court Francesca: Jane Asher Gino: David Weston Ludovico: Nigel Green Alfredo: Patrick Magee Scarlatti: Paul Whitsun-Jones Guard: Robert Brown Señor Veronese: Julian Burton Lead Villager: David Davies Hop Toad: Skip Martin Señora Escobar: Gaye Brown Esmeralda: Verina Greenlaw Anna-Marie (as Doreen Dawne): Doreen Dawn Grandmother: Sarah Brackett Senor Lampredi: Brian Hewlett Dancer: Jenny Till The Man in Red: John Westbrook Film Crew: Producer: Roger Corman Screenplay: Charles Beaumont Screenplay: R. Wright Campbell Director of Photography: Nicolas Roeg Editor: Ann Chegwidden Casting: G. B. Walker Production Design: Daniel Haller Art Direction: Robert Jones Set Decoration: Colin Southcott ADR & Dubbing: Allan Morrison Special Effects: George Blackwell Camera Operator: Alex Thomson Costume Supervisor: Laura Nightingale Hairstylist: Elsie Alder Makeup Artist: George Partleton Associate Producer: George Willoughby Assistant Director: Peter Price Sound: Richard Bird Sound: Len Abbott Stunts: Peter Brace Stunts: Joe Powell Stunts: George Leech Short Story: Edgar Allan Poe Original Music Composer: David Lee Choreographer: Jack Carter Movie Reviews: John Chard: Bold, Daring, Lurid. Visually appealing and trippy in its telling, The Masque of the Red Death is a very acquired taste. Directed by Roger Corman, the film stars Vincent Price as the diabolical Prince Prospero who holds fear over a plague infested peasantry while jollying it up in his castle. The screenplay by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell is based upon a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, while part of the film contains a story arc based on another Poe tale titled Hop-Frog. It’s the 7th of 8 Corman film adaptations of Poe’s works. Sinister yet beautiful (Nicolas Roeg genius like on photography), “Red Death” has proved to be the most divisive of all the Corman/Poe adaptations. Choosing to forgo blood in favour of black magic dalliance and general diabolism, the film is arguably the most ambitious of all Corman’s love affairs with Poe’s literary works. With Price gleefully putting gravitas of meanness into Prospero, the film also greatly benefits from the intelligent input to the script from Beaumont (many Twilight Zone credits). This is, strangely, an intellectual type of horror film, offering up observations on the indiscrimination of death and proclaiming that cruelty is but merely a way of life. God, Satan and a battle of faith, are all luridly dealt with as the story reaches its intriguing and memorable closure. It’s a very tough film to recommend with confidence, and certainly it’s not a film one wishes to revisit too often (myself having viewed it only twice in 30 years!). However, the one thing that is a cast iron certainty is that it’s unlike most horror film’s from the 60s. It’s also one of Price’s best performances. Gone is the camp and pomposity that lingered on many of his other horror characterisations, in its place is pure menace of being. A devil dealer shuffling his pack for all his sadistic worth. You may feel afterwards that you must have eaten some weird mushrooms, or that the last glass of wine was one too many? You are however unlikely to forget “The Masque of the Red Death” in a hurry. 7/10 Wuchak: ***Castles, peasants, diabolical princes, plague, death and Vincent Price*** During what appears to be the late Medieval era in (presumably) Britain, pompous Prince Prospero tyrannically reigns, terrorizing the serfs, while holding up in his castle with other “royals” during the plague of the Red Death. Hazel Court plays his seasoned nefarious babe in the castle whereas Jane Asher appears as his new interest, a virginal, God-fearing peasant girl. Produced & directed by Roger Corman for American International, “The Masque of the Red Death” (1964) is Gothic horror with a huge r...

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Season 5, “The End“

Director: Jed Whedon

DoP: Allan Westbrook

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La tomba di Ligeia

La tomba di Ligeia

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo continuato il nostro viaggio nel mondo animato Disney e siamo arrivati al 18° classico animato, La spada nella roccia. Un film d’animazione che considero molto importante per il messaggio che trasmette e fatto bene tecnicamente, nonostante il budget basso che aveva (infatti alcune scene vennero ripetute) e dei tratti sporchi…

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Screenshots from the 1964 film The Masque of the Red Death.

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (4ª Temp.)

Episodio 22: ''World's End''

 • Dirección: Billy Gierhart

 • Guion: Jeffrey Bell

 • Cinematografía: Allan Westbrook

 • Cast: Gabriel Luna, Chloe Bennet

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The Tomb of Ligeia will be released on Blu-ray on September 7 via Kino Lorber Studio Classics. The 1964 British horror film is based on Edgar Allan Poe 1838 short story "Ligeia."

Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) directs his eighth and final Poe adaptation starring Vincent Price. Robert Towne (Chinatown, Mission: Impossible) wrote the script. Elizabeth Shepherd and John Westbrook co-star.

A limited edition slipcover is included. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film critic Tim Lucas (new)

Audio commentary by director/producer Roger Corman

Audio commentary by actress Elizabeth Shepherd

Trailers From Hell with Joe Dante

Theatrical trailer

When a dead wife sinks her claws into immortality—and comes back as a ferocious feline—she leads her husband's (Price) new bride on a deadly game of cat and mouse. And when the fur starts flying, she soon learns that even in death... she can land on her feet!

Pre-order The Tomb of Ligeia from Amazon.

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Vincent Price et John Westbrook dans "La Tombe de Ligeia" de Roger Corman (1964) - d'après la nouvelle "Ligeia" d'Edgar Allan Poe (1838) - mai 2021.

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Roger Corman's The Tomb of Ligeia, 1964

I tried to kill a stray cat with a cabbage, and all but made love to the Lady Rowena. I succeeded is squashing the cabbage and badly frightening the lady.

DoP: Arthur Grant

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Mike Westbrook - Love and Understanding: Citadel/Room 315 Sweden '74 - live performance featuring John Surman, previously unreleased (My Only Desire Records)

The debut performance of esteemed pianist/composer Mike Westbrook's cult 70s jazz masterpiece 'Citadel/Room 315', recorded live in 1974. Featured soloists throughout the album are the iconic ECM recording artist John Surman plus a crack team of top Scandi jazzers. Remastered by Caspar @ Gearbox Records from the original master tapes, 'Love and Understanding' is available on limited edition 2LP gatefold vinyl (500 units worldwide) and 'mini-LP' gatefold CD, with sleeve notes by Daniel Spicer (Jazzwise, The Wire). The original RCA recording of 'Citadel/Room 315' is an hour-long suite of eleven tracks, beautifully composed and arranged by Mike Westbrook that is rightly considered to be one of the high-points of Brit-jazz from that era. Mike was commissioned by Sveriges (Swedish) Radio to write the work with Surman as lead soloist. He then travelled to Sweden to perform and conduct it for the first time, live in concert. This recording has never been released until now and presents a wildly different recording to the later LP, the rawness and freedom of the playing contrasting strongly with the more polished studio album. Surman - playing baritone and soprano saxophone, plus bass clarinet - is in sumptuously freewheeling form throughout, soaring between wild expression and wonderfully controlled playing, perfectly complimenting Mike's compositions that gracefully move from jazz-rock, ballads, to tightly composed orchestral themes and more avant-garde moments. Backed by the 16-piece Swedish Radio Jazz Group led by saxophonist Arne Domnérus and Argentinian trumpeter Americo Bellotto, the group comprised the finest players on the Swedish scene. Personnel: Mike Westbrook (conductor, electric piano) John Surman (baritone and soprano saxes, bass clarinet) The Swedish Radio Jazz Group: Arne Domnérus (alto saxophone, clarinet) Claes Rosendahl (tenor saxophone, flute) Lennart Åberg (tenor and soprano saxophone, flute) Erik Nilsson (baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, flute) Americo Bellotto (trumpet) Bertil Lövgren (trumpet, flugel horn) Jan Allan (trumpet, alto horn) Håkan Nyquist (trumpet, flugel horn, French horn) Lars Olofsson (trombone) Sven Larsson (bass trombone, tuba) Rune Gustafsson (guitar) Bengt Hallberg (piano) Georg Riedel (bass) Stefan Brolund (bass guitar) Egil Johansen (drums) Jan Bandel (drums, vibraphone, percussion)