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Contraband was intended as a followup to Powell and Pressburger's The Spy in Black, which was filmed at the end of 1938, but was not released by Alexander Korda for almost a year. [4] The current film was in production from 16 December 1939 through 27 January 1940 [ 5 ] at Denham Film Studios , with location shooting in London at Chester Square ...
Gable in a 1938 publicity still. Clark Gable (1901–1960) [1] was an American actor and producer who appeared in over 70 feature films and several short films. Gable first began acting in stage productions, before his film debut in 1924.
After Powell had made two further films for Korda, he reunited with Pressburger in 1940 for Contraband, the first in a run of Powell and Pressburger films set during the Second World War. The second was 49th Parallel (1941), which won Pressburger an Academy Award for Best Story .
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1940: 21 Days: Basil Dean: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks: Drama: Filmed in 1937 All at Sea: Herbert Smith: Sandy Powell, Kay Walsh, John Warwick
Babette Louisa Valerie Hobson (14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998) [1] was a British [2] actress whose film career spanned the 1930s to the early 1950s. Her second husband was John Profumo, a British government minister who became the subject of the Profumo affair in 1963.
This is an alphabetical list of film articles (or sections within articles about films). ... Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) ... Contraband: (1925, 1940, 1980 & 2012)
Alexander Korda cast her opposite Robert Donat in Perfect Strangers (1945). The film was a big hit in Britain. The film was a big hit in Britain. So too was the spy comedy drama I See a Dark Stranger (1946), in which she gave a breezy, amusing performance that dominated the action and overshadowed her co-star Trevor Howard .
A list of American films released in 1940. American film production was concentrated in Hollywood and was dominated by the eight Major film studios MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, RKO, Columbia, Universal and United Artists. Other significant production and distribution companies included Republic, Monogram and PRC.