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  Basil Dearden - Biography - Moviefone
From 1949 through 1971, Dearden was associated with producer Michael Relph; the team won British Film Academy Awards for the quasi-documentary The Blue Lamp (1951) and the racially charged romantic melodrama Sapphire (1959).
Dearden's efficient if impersonal technique enabled him to direct comedies (Smallest Show on Earth), psychological dramas (Victim) and murder mysteries (Woman of Straw) with equal success.
Basil Dearden died in an auto crash at the age of 60; he was survived by his son, writer/director James Dearden.
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 Basil Dearden Biography
Basil Dearden was initially an actor with the Ben Greet repertory company, Briton Basil Dear later became a stage manager for director Basil Dean.
From 1949 through 1971, Dearden was associated with producer Michael Relph; the team won British Film Academy Awards for the quasi-documentary The Blue Lamp (1950) and the racially charged romantic melodrama Sapphire (1959).
Dearden's efficient if impersonal technique enabled him to direct comedies; The Smallest Show on Earth (1957), psychological dramas including Victim (1961) and murder mysteries like Woman of Straw (1964) with equal success.
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 Basil Dearden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Basil Dearden was an English film director, born Basil Dear in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, in 1911.
Dearden graduated from theatre direction to film, working as an assistant to Basil Dean.
Dearden was killed in a car accident in 1971.
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 Basil Dearden - Films as Director:, Other Films:
Basil Dearden is, par excellence, the journeyman-director of British cinema, standing in much the same relation to Ealing (the studio for which he directed the greater part of his output) as, say, Michael Curtiz did to Warner Brothers.
Dearden was the complete professional, unfailingly competent and meticulous; his films were never less than thoroughly well-constructed, and he enjoyed a reputation in the industry for total reliability, invariably bringing in assignments on schedule and under budget.
Dearden's flair for action was effectively exploited in the classic "heist" movie, The League of Gentlemen, and in The Blue Lamp, a seminal police drama and one of the first Ealing films shot almost entirely on location.
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 Liberal Directions: Basil Dearden and Postwar British Film Culture - Review Historical Journal of Film, Radio and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Basil Dearden's career in popular British film culture spans three decades, from the 1940s to the early 1970s.
Basil Dearden and postwar British film culture provides the first book-length study and a much-needed reassessment of Dearden's films.
Dearden's films, however, are positioned very uncomfortably within these oppositional pairs which helps to explain the critical tendency to pigeonhole his oeuvre as 'consensus' and to level his generic preferences to 'social drama'.
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 Biography for Basil Dearden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A former stage director, Basil Dearden entered films as an assistant to director Basil Dean (he changed his name from Dear to avoid being confused with Dean).
Dearden worked his way up the ladder and directed (with Will Hay) his first film in 1941; two years later he directed his first film on his own.
In the '60s Dearden embarked on a new phase of his career by directing large-scale action pictures, the best of which was Khartoum (1966), which was a critical and financial success.
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 Amazon.com: Victim: DVD: Dirk Bogarde,Sylvia Syms,Dennis Price,Anthony Nicholls,Peter Copley,Norman Bird,Peter ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This film from the Rank organisation directed by Basil Dearden was a landmark in cinema history as allegedly the first to mention the ten-letter word "homosexual" (though the use of "queer" reads as more of a shock).
Her part could have become a bit melodramatic but Syms and director Basil Dearden avoided that pitfall.
Basil Dearden - Director, Janet Green - Writer, John McCormick - Writer, Michael Relph - Producer (producer), Basil Dearden - Producer (co-producer)...
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 Basil Dearden - Moviefone
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Basil Dearden was born Basil Dear in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex on 1 January 1911.
Basil Dearden - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Basil Dearden Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 screenonline: Dearden, Basil (1911-1971) Biography
was born Basil Dear in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex on 1 January 1911.
In an attempt to avoid the confusions that resulted from the similarity between their names, Dear changed his surname to Dearden.
Durgnat, Raymond, 'Dearden and Relph: Two on a Tandem', Films and Filming, July 1966, pp.
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 Basil Dearden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
An elaborate response to La Grande Illusion, with the benefit of hindsight.
There’s a lot of fine work in the directing, with an independent use of the camera in a subtle counterpoint, or orchestrating large-scale movements, as in the prisoners’ stiff-legged shamble to the loudspeakers during a propaganda assault, followed by Dearden’s establishing sequence, a long track to Cpl. Horsfall, pause and response, counter-movement, dolly, final frame.
There are a couple of extraordinary things in it: a very quick citation of Hitchcock’s flface slow crane, and at the very end a foreglimpse of Resnais’s Nuit et Brouillard.
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 Jim's Film Reviews - Basil Dearden's Victim
Dirk Bogarde, in a career-defining role, plays a highly respected, but closeted, attorney who risks his marriage and reputation to bring to justice an elusive flmail ring terrorizing gay men.
There they try to show the broad impact of homophobia on the widest possible socioeconomic range, from both the straight and gay worlds.
In the opening hour, Dearden brilliantly used cinematic means – expressive lighting, slightly off-kilter compositions, propulsive narrative rhythms, and jazzy music - to explore character and theme (all captured superbly in the DVD transfer).
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 Basil Dearden
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All Night Long (1962, Basil Dearden) :: Shakespeare in Performance
The Othello story modernized and grafted on to a typical back-stage show business plot.
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 Liberal Directions: Basil Dearden and Postwar British Film Culture; Hardback; Book
Liberal Directions: Basil Dearden and Postwar British Film Culture; Hardback; Book
Liberal Directions: Basil Dearden and Postwar British Film Culture
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 Basil Dearden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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 ToxicUniverse.com - Basil Dearden - 1961 - Victim (1961) Movies Review
ToxicUniverse.com - Basil Dearden - 1961 - Victim (1961) Movies Review
Indeed, in the role Bogarde plays a man who is going to "get the name without having the game," that is, although he is homosexual in orientation, he has only had sexual relations with his wife (who knew of his feelings for men before marrying him and stands by her husband).
Two years earlier, director Basil Dearden and scenarist Janet Green had made another film, the murder mystery Sapphire, focusing on fls passing for white.
www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10004439   (1091 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Khartoum: Video: Basil Dearden,Eliot Elisofon,Charlton Heston,Laurence Olivier,Richard Johnson,Ralph ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier Director: Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon (11 customer reviews)
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 The Captive Heart
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Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Basil Radford, Mervyn Johns, directed by Basil Dearden more »
Identity switching in a Nazi POW camp during World War II leads to intrigue and suspicion, when the Czech soldier who assumes the name of a deceased British soldier is finally released at the end of the war, and sent back to Britain.
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