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William Cameron Menzies is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Co-Director, Production Design and Second Unit American born on 29 july 1896 at New Haven (USA)
William Cameron Menzies (July 29, 1896 – March 5, 1957) was an Academy Award-winning American film production designer (a job title he invented) and art director who also worked as a director, producer, and screenwriter during a career spanning five decades. He earned acclaim for his work in silent movies, and later pioneered the use of color in film for dramatic effect.
(1940)
(Second Unit Director)
(1956)
(Associate Producer)
(1946)
(Director)
(1943)
(Production Design)
(1933)
(Special Effects)
(1928)
(Art Direction)
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Nationality USA
Birth 29 july 1896 at New Haven (USA)
Death 5 march 1957 (at 60 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Awards Academy Honorary Award, Academy Award for Best Production Design
Birth 29 july 1896 at New Haven (USA)
Death 5 march 1957 (at 60 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Awards Academy Honorary Award, Academy Award for Best Production Design
William Cameron Menzies (July 29, 1896 – March 5, 1957) was an Academy Award-winning American film production designer (a job title he invented) and art director who also worked as a director, producer, and screenwriter during a career spanning five decades. He earned acclaim for his work in silent movies, and later pioneered the use of color in film for dramatic effect.
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(1940)(Second Unit Director)
(1956)(Associate Producer)
(1946)(Director)
(1943)(Production Design)
(1933)(Special Effects)
(1928)(Art Direction)
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The Maze (1953)
, 1h20Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Richard Carlson, Veronica Hurst, Michael Pate, Hillary Brooke, Lilian Bond, Robin Hughes
Rating58%
A Scotsman named Gerald MacTeam (Richard Carlson) abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty (Veronica Hurst) after receiving word of his uncle's death. He inherits a mysterious castle in the Scottish highlands and moves there to live with the castle servants. Kitty refuses to accept the broken engagement and travels with her aunt (Katherine Emery) to the castle. When they arrive, they discover that Gerald has suddenly aged and his manner has changed significantly.
Invaders from Mars (1953)
, 1h17Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Martiens, Space opera, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter, Morris Ankrum, Arthur Franz, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke
Rating61%
Late one night, young David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt) is awakened by a loud thunderstorm. From his bedroom window, he sees a large flying saucer descend and disappear into the sandpit area behind his home. After rushing to tell his parents, his scientist father (Leif Erickson) goes to investigate David's claim. When his father returns much later in the morning, David notices an unusual red puncture along the hairline on the back of his father's neck; his father is now behaving in a cold and hostile manner. David soon begins to realize something is very wrong: one-by-one he notices certain townsfolk are acting in exactly the same way. Through his telescope, David sees child neighbor Kathy Wilson walking in the sandpit, when she suddenly disappears underground. David flees to the police station for help, and he is eventually placed under the protection of health-department physician Dr. Pat Blake (Helena Carter), who slowly begins to believe his crazy story.
The Narrow Margin (1952)
, 1h11Directed by Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert, Don Beddoe, Queenie Leonard
Rating75%
Detective Sergeant Walter Brown (Charles McGraw) of the Los Angeles Police Department and his partner are assigned to protect a mob boss's widow, Mrs. Frankie Neall (Marie Windsor), as she rides a train from Chicago to Los Angeles to testify before a grand jury. She is also carrying a payoff list that belonged to her murdered husband. On the way to pick her up, Brown bets his partner and friend, Sergeant Gus Forbes (Don Beddoe), what she will be like: "She's the sixty cent special. Cheap. Flashy. Strictly poison under the gravy."
Drums in the Deep South (1951)
, 1h27Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors James Craig, Barbara Payton, Guy Madison, Barton MacLane, Craig Stevens, Robert Osterloh
Rating58%
Best friends Clay Clayburn and Will Denning graduate from West Point and visit their friend and fellow graduate Braxton at his Georgia plantation in 1861. Clay had once loved Braxton's wife Kathy and still does. When war is declared they soon find themselves fighting on opposite sides of the Civil War.
The Whip Hand (1951)
, 1h22Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors Elliott Reid, Carla Balenda, Edgar Barrier, Raymond Burr, Lurene Tuttle, Otto Waldis
Rating59%
See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044209/
Duel in the Sun (1946)
, 2h9Directed by William Dieterle, Otto Brower, David Selznick, Josef von Sternberg, King Vidor, William Cameron Menzies, Sidney Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish
Rating66%
Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) is orphaned after her father Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall) kills her mother (Tilly Losch), having caught his wife with a lover (Sidney Blackmer). Before Scott Chavez is executed as a punishment for killing his wife, he arranges for his daughter Pearl to live with his second cousin and old sweetheart, Laura Belle (Lillian Gish).
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
, 1h23Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams, Joseph Calleia, Lola Lane, Osa Massen
Rating67%
U.S. Navy sailor Alex Winkley (Bill Williams) wakes up from a night of drinking in New York City and finds he has a wad of cash. His memory is hazy, but he knows he got it from a woman he had visited earlier in the evening, Edna Bartelli (Lola Lane).
Address Unknown (1944)
, 1h15Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter van Eyck, Mady Christians, Morris Carnovsky, K. T. Stevens
Rating68%
Two close friends, Martin Schulz and Max Eisenstein (Morris Carnovsky), are German expatriate art dealers living in the United States. Martin's son Heinrich (Peter van Eyck) and Max's daughter Griselle (K.T. Stevens) are in love. However, she turns down his proposal of marriage for the time being, as she aspires to become an actress. When Martin and his wife return to Germany for business purposes, Griselle accompanies them to seek acting opportunities there. Max and Heinrich remain in San Francisco to run the art gallery, while Martin sends them paintings to sell. Martin sends a strange painting from an unknown artist to Max as a joke, the "unknown" artist being Pablo Picasso. A determined patron (Mary Young) insists on buying the painting, over Max's well-intended protests.
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
, 1h46Directed by Michael Powell, Jack Clayton, Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Ludwig Berger, Ludwig Berger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Conrad Veidt, Sabu, John Justin, June Duprez, Rex Ingram, Glynis Johns
Rating73%
The film's backstory is told in flashback, mimicking the style of the Arabian Nights.
Nothing Sacred (1937)
, 1h17Directed by William A. Wellman, William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about journalists
Actors Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Walter Connolly, Charles Winninger, Sig Ruman, Margaret Hamilton
Rating68%
New York newspaper reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) is blamed for passing off an ordinary African-American (Troy Brown) as an African nobleman hosting a charity event (despite his claims of not knowing this was false). Cook is demoted to writing obituaries. He begs his boss Oliver Stone (Walter Connolly) for another chance. Wally is sent to the (fictional) town of Warsaw, Vermont, to interview Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard), a woman supposedly dying of radium poisoning. Cook finally locates Hazel, who is crying because her doctor has told her that she is not dying. Unaware of this, he invites her to New York as the guest of the Morning Star newspaper.
The Green Cockatoo (1937)
, 1h5Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors John Mills, Rene Ray, Bruce Seton, Robert Newton, Allan Jeayes, Tyrell Davis
Rating58%
An innocent young girl travels to London from her home in Devon and gets mixed up with various unsavoury characters.
Things to Come (1936)
, 1h32Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War
Themes Space adventure films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Sur la Lune, Aviation films, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Sur la Lune, Disaster films
Actors Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman, Cedric Hardwicke, Pearl Argyle, Margaretta Scott
Rating65%
In the British city of "Everytown", businessman John Cabal (Raymond Massey) cannot enjoy Christmas Day, 1940, with the news everywhere of possible war. His guest, Harding (Maurice Braddell), shares his worries, while his other friend, the over-optimistic Pippa Passworthy (Edward Chapman), believes it will not come to pass, but if it does, it will accelerate technological progress. An aerial bombing raid on the city that night results in general mobilisation and then global war.
The Conquest of the Air (1936)
, 1h11Directed by Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies, John Monk Saunders, Alexander Esway
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about historical events
Actors Laurence Olivier, Charles Frend, Frederick Culley, Franklin Dyall, Henry Victor, John Turnbull
Rating62%
À partir d'images d'archives et de scènes jouées par des acteurs, ce documentaire retrace l'histoire de la conquête de l'air, des premières tentatives de s'élever au dessus du sol jusqu'à l'aviation au début du XX siècle.
The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934)
, 1h4Directed by Ralph Murphy, William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Gertrude Michael, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Byron, Alison Skipworth, Leon Errol, Ferdinand Gottschalk
Rating66%
Wharf Angel (1934)
, 1h5Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Dell, David Landau, Preston Foster, Alison Skipworth, Mischa Auer
Rating64%
Two stokers who work on the same ship become rivals for the love of a woman who works in a saloon in the tough Barbary Coast area of San Francisco.