David Baxter Movies
- 1996
- NR
The bulk of this domestic drama is comprised of video footage shot over the years by a boorish husband. Pieced together it forms a diary of a marital breakup that begins at a New Years Eve party. While David is taping, his wife Lily announces, right in front of the camera and everyone, that she wants a divorce. Utterly shocked, he asks her why and she tells him to look at all the videotape of their lives to discover the answer. What he finds does not reflect kindly upon his behavior. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Matt Winston, Amy Smallman, (more)
- 1946
Released in Britain in 1944, Man from Morocco made it to American shores the following year. Anton Walbrook plays the title character, the head of an intrepid band of WW2 freedom fighters. The film's heavy is a Nazi-sympathizing French officer of unbounded cruelty. Margaretta Scott portrays Manuela, a patriotic Frenchwoman who poses as a Red Cross nurse to insinuate herself into the villain's lair. In true "Judith of Bethulia" fashion, Manuela romances the fiend, thereby affording her the opportunity to murder him and thus save the lives of 2000 French hostages. It's a good thing that Man From Morocco was a British film; otherwise, the Hollywood production code would have obliged Manuela to be punished for her murder, justified or no. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Anton Walbrook, Margaretta Scott, (more)
- 1944
Though a top-billed British stage star, Feliz Aylmer seldom rose above the supporting cast in films: Mr. Emmanuel is a rare exception. Aylmer plays the title role, an elderly European Jew living in Manchester, England. Honoring a promise to a young refugee, Mr. Emmanuel makes a perilous journey to Nazi Germany to search for the boy's mother. The gentle, even-tempered old man is subject to all manner of persecution by the jack-booted Gestapo thugs, but he is saved from the Concentration Camps through the intervention of Greta Gynt, a British woman who is the mistress of a high-ranking Nazi. While Mr. Emmanuel himself emerges from Germany intact, his mission ends on an unexpectedly melancholy note. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Felix Aylmer, Greta Gynt, (more)
- 1938
Guy P. Bolton's stage farce Mirabelle was given a more saleable title for its 1938 British filmization. Now travelling under the name Too Many Husbands, Bolton's story tells of notorious con artist Jack Melford, who is wrongly reported as having been killed in a plane crash. Adopting a new identity, Melford heads for the gaming tables of Monte Carlo, certain that he will not be prevented by his bad reputation from making a fortune. Enter Melford's wife Iris Baker, who is posing as a countess. Using the threat of exposure, Baker convinces Melford to turn honest. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jack Melford, Iris Baker, (more)
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