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  MTV.com - Movies - Frank Launder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A scriptwriter in British films by the late '20s, Launder collaborated with Sidney Gilliat in the late '30s and early '40s on the screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and Carol Reed's Night Train to Munich and Kipps.
Launder produced and co-scripted several notable films which Gilliat directed in the '40s and '50s, including Green for Danger and State Secret.
As a director, Launder is most fondly remembered for his espionage film I See a Dark Stranger (aka The Adventuress) with Deborah Kerr, The Blue Lagoon with Jean Simmons and Donald Houston, and the twisted series of St. Trinian's fl comedies, starting with The Belles of St. Trinian's, starring Alastair Sim.
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 Launder and Gilliat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Frank Launder (1906 - 1997) and Sidney Gilliat (1908 - 1994)
Launder and Gilliat were one of the most productive teams to work in British films.
They got to the top of their profession as WWII was looming and proceeded over the next decade and a half to show us as we wanted to be shown: eccentric but real.
www.britishpictures.com /stars/LaunGill.htm   (199 words)

  
 I See a Dark Stranger (1946): Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley - PopMatters Film Review
The first, Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, earned their stripes as screenwriters with the British comic icon of the 1930s, Will Hay.
Launder and Gilliat were more successful in their collaborations, and even took risks in mixing genres, as is the case with their 1946 release, I See A Dark Stranger.
Herein, Launder and Gilliat shift the tone from light farce to subtle tension, which leads to a Hitchcockian sequence involving a corpse in a wheelchair.
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/i/i-see-a-dark-stranger.shtml   (1391 words)

  
 screenonline: Launder, Frank (1906-1997) Biography
These were versatile filmmakers with a pronounced common touch, who generally conceived films together, collaborated on scripts and handed over direction to the one most suited to the subject.
Writing was a consistent part of Launder's career and he wrote for the stage and radio, as well as for cinema.
Launder and Gilliat film about the lives of women during World War II Oh, Mr Porter!
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 Frank Launder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Frank Launder started as a scriptwriter in the 1930's on such classics...
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 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: I See a Dark Stranger
The story is sketched rapidly and told quickly, with a topsy-turvy adventure full of spies, smugglers, military men, and cops, all leading up to the crucial event of D-Day.
But it would not be half as appealing without Bridie at the center of it all, and both Launder and Gilliat knew a few things about woman-in-peril intrigue — having co-scripted Hitchcock's 1938 classic The Lady Vanishes, among the finest films from The Master's British period.
The casting is solid throughout, with Kerr anchoring virtually every scene, while Trevor Howard is note-perfect as the chipper British officer who may or may not be a spy himself.
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 Britmovie - Frank Launder | Gilliat and Launder Biography
In partnership with Sidney Gilliat for many years Frank Launder was one half of Individual Films, taking it in turns to direct.
He initially joined the story department of BIP in 1928 and during the thirties wrote such outstanding films as The Lady Vanishes (1938), Oh Mr Porter!
It is hard to differentiate his style from that of his partner, apart from the tendency towards broad comedy rather than the thrillers of the I See a Dark Stranger (1946) and Green for Danger (1947) mould.
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 DigiGuide : Frank Launder
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 Films by Sidney Gilliatt / Frank Launder on DVD & VHS - MovieMail UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A classic British comedy crime drama set in pre-war London and produced by the acclaimed team of Launder & Gilliat.
Alastair Sim stars as the eccentric and irreverent Inspector Cockrill of the Kent County Police alongside Trevor Howard and Rosamund John in this suspenseful murder mystery.
The trials and tribulations of a working class English family during WWII are evoked in this sincere but effective flagwaver from directors Launder and Gilliatt.
www.moviemail-online.co.uk /directors/2721   (159 words)

  
 BELLES OF ST. TRINIAN'S, THE - Alastair Sim Joyce Grenfell Good Frank Launder Comedy Adventure 1954 -
BELLES OF ST. TRINIAN'S, THE - Alastair Sim Joyce Grenfell Good Frank Launder Comedy Adventure 1954 -
Screenplay by Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat, Val Valentine,
Inhabitants of a wild school for girls are not your typical young ladies, they bet on horses, make gin, etc. In this film they save a kidnapped horse.
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 Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes
I recently (re)screened a print of Carol Reed's Night Train to Munich (1940), which was scripted by the team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, whose wonderful adaptation of Ethel Lina White's The Wheel Spins became Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, the most successful of the director's films made in England.
There are many similarities between these two works, and one of the delightful surprises of Night Train to Munich is the appearance of Caldicott and Charters, with Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford reprising their roles from Hitchcock’s film.
Here find themselves in a sticky railway situation in Night Train To Munich, which was also scripted by Launder and Gilliat.
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 Amazon.com: Belles of St. Trinians (1955) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
If the madcap humor of Monty Python or Mel Brooks is your cup of tea, do not miss St. Trinian's!!
Customers who bought videos directed by Frank Launder also bought videos by these directors:
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 The Belles of St. Trinian's VHS Frank Launder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 SIM, ALASTAIR: JOYCE GRENFELL: GEORGE COLE: FRANK LAUNDER-DIR / BELLES OF ST TRINIANS: 1954 (SAINT) - HMV Australia - ...
SIM, ALASTAIR: JOYCE GRENFELL: GEORGE COLE: FRANK LAUNDER-DIR / BELLES OF ST TRINIANS: 1954 (SAINT) - HMV Australia - Top Dog for Music CDs, CD Singles, Videos and DVDs
SIM, ALASTAIR: JOYCE GRENFELL: GEORGE COLE: FRANK LAUNDER-DIR
Another rip-roaring farce set among the uninhibited pupils of this particularly unorthodox school.
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 SIM, ALASTAIR: JOYCE GRENFELL: GEORGE COLE: FRANK LAUNDER-DIR / BLUE MURDER AT ST TRINIANS: G 1957 (SAINT) - HMV ...
SIM, ALASTAIR: JOYCE GRENFELL: GEORGE COLE: FRANK LAUNDER-DIR / BLUE MURDER AT ST TRINIANS: G 1957 (SAINT) - HMV Australia - Top Dog for Music CDs, CD Singles, Videos and DVDs
BLUE MURDER AT ST TRINIANS: G 1957 (SAINT)
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