Khartoum
1966
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Career. Dearden graduated from theatre direction to film, working as an assistant to Basil Dean. He later changed his own name to Dearden to avoid confusion with his mentor. He wrote This Man Is News (1938), a hugely popular quota quickie [4] and wrote and directed a film for TV Under Suspicion (1939). He was assistant director on Penny ...
- Film director
- James Dearden, Torquil Dearden
- 1938–1970
Basil Dearden. Director: Sapphire. 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.
- January 1, 1
- Westcliffe-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
- January 1, 1
- Director, Producer, Writer
Apr 17, 2021 · Basil Dearden’s 1961 film, Victim, represents a significant moment in British film history.Released into a world where sex between adult men in the United Kingdom was a heavily policed crime, it is the first British film to use the word homosexual inside a narrative that thoughtfully and unsensationally captures the cumulative daily stresses and deadly effects of the law.
Aug 31, 2021 · That Basil Dearden’s film stands six decades later as a vital queer text, for all its compromises and socially baked-in offences, is a miracle, albeit one that demands some perspective and ...
- Guy Lodge
Basil Dearden. Highest Rated: 100% Khartoum (1966) Lowest Rated: 40% Masquerade (1965) Birthday: Jan 1, 1911. Birthplace: Westcliffe-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK. Capable, intelligent filmmaker who ...
Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCreditNo Score Yet55%Director78%69%DirectorNo Score YetNo Score YetDirector100%66%DirectorBasil Dearden’s bold, direct police procedural, starring Nigel Patrick as the detective in charge of the investigation, is a devastating look at the way bigotry crosses class divides, and a snapshot of the increasingly interracial culture of England in the late fifties. Bitter about being forced into retirement, a colonel (wittily embodied by ...
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Jan 25, 2011 · Sapphire: Inner City Given his strikingly eclectic body of work, it’s not surprising that Basil Dearden has never become a household name—he’s too hard to pin down. Moving effortlessly among comedies, melodramas, and thrillers, over a thirty-five-film, nearly thirty-year career, Dearden was a craftsman of durable, classic British cinema. But his artistry—in storytelling, creating ...
