Francis Searle
Francis Searle (14 March 1909 – 31 July 2002) was an English film director, writer and producer.[1] He was active in the post-Second World War cinema industry.[2] Amongst the films he directed were The Lady Craved Excitement (1950), One Way Out (1955) and It All Goes to Show (1969).
Searle's later projects were all short films, either comedies or dramas, with his final film being made in 1971 (released in 1973).[2]
Selected filmography
- A Girl in a Million (1946)
- Things Happen at Night (1947)
- Man in Black (1949)
- Celia (1949)
- A Case for PC 49 (1951)
- Cloudburst (1951)
- Love's a Luxury (1952)
- Never Look Back (1952)
- Profile (1954)
- Day of Grace (1957) (short, Hammer production)[3]
- Undercover Girl (1958)
- The Diplomatic Corpse (1958)
- Freedom to Die (1961)
- Ticket to Paradise (1961)
- Gaolbreak (1962)
- Emergency (1962)
- Dead Man's Evidence (1962)
- Night of the Prowler (1962)
- The Marked One (1963)
- Miss MacTaggart Won't Lie Down (1966) (short)
- The Pale Faced Girl (1968) (short)[2]
- Talk of the Devil (1968) (short)[2]
- Gold Is Where You Find It (1968) (short)[2]
- It All Goes to Show (1969) (short)
- A Hole Lot of Trouble (1971) (short)
- A Couple of Beauties (rel. 1973) (short)[2]
References
- ^ "Francis Searle". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 5 March 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f Murphy, Robert (25 July 2019). Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83871-533-5.
- ^ Maxford, Howard (8 November 2019). Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-2914-8.
External links
- Francis Searle at IMDb
- "The British Entertainment History Project | Francis Searle |". historyproject.org.uk.