Cec Linder Movies
Cec Linder was born in Poland, began his acting career in his adopted country of Canada, then established himself by playing American characters in British films. The actor's most famous movie role was James Bond's CIA counterpart Felix Leiter in 1965's Goldfinger. From 1960 through 1964, Linder portrayed Peter Ames on the CBS TV soap opera The Secret Storm, and later replaced William Prince in the role of Ben Travis on The Edge of Night. Shortly before his death at the age of 61, Cec Linder essaying the recurring part of a district attorney in several of the American made-for-TV Perry Mason feature films. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide- 1959
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Van Johnson, Hildegarde Neff, (more)
- 1958
The original 1958 BBC television production of the last of Nigel Kneale's classic Quatermass scripts -- which is best known in association with the 1967 Hammer Films adaptation by Roy Ward Baker -- runs circles around the feature-film version. As with the other Quatermass serials, Kneale's original script goes a lot deeper into meanings, motivations, and consequences of the events depicted, as well as characterization and plot developments. That's understandable, as the producers had six episodes running over 30 minutes each in which to work, instead of the 98-minute running time of the movie. The result is a storyline in which the mystery is developed as much as the horror and science-fiction elements, and is worthy of Sherlock Holmes, one might add. An excavation for a London subway turns up mysterious skeletons, that are almost -- but not quite -- human. An investigation by Dr. Roney (Cec Linder), a paleontologist, reveals that these creatures had abnormally large brain cavities, much larger than was the norm for any known prehistoric proto-human species. There are other specimens as well, large insect-like creatures, and all were clustered around what seems to be a spacecraft buried at the same time as these skeletons, possibly as long as five million years. The unearthing of the space vehicle brings into the case England's greatest rocket expert, Professor Benard Quatermass (Andre Morell), who comes to believe from the evidence that the vehicle is from Mars, as were the insect-like beings. Even as Quatermass and Roney continue to investigate, they run up against resistance from government officials eager to avoid a panic, and from Quatermass' new superior, Colonel Breen (Anthony Bushell), a weapons expert who doesn't trust intellectuals or idealistic scientists, and wants to believe that the spaceship was part of a World War II Nazi hoax intended to raise hysteria among the public. Meanwhile, hysteria seems called for, as strange and potentially deadly manifestations of telekinetic power and other paranormal phenomenon start to overtake workers at the site of the excavation. Quatermass and Roney are convinced that some potentially catastrophic forces are being tampered with, but no one in the government will listen to them until it is too late, and all hell, literally, starts to break loose. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Andre Morell, Cec Linder, (more)
- 1958
In this western a half-Sioux cavalry officer tries to mediate between settlers and the angry Sioux. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1956
Created by Eric Koch and David Walker, It's the Law represented a collaboration between the CBC and the Canadian Bar Association. In the traditon of the old Saturday Evening Post feature "You Be the Judge," the series illustrated everyday legal situations, usually by dramatizing actual court cases. The purpose was to demonstrate the workings of justice, and to allow the viewer to second-guess the solutions of cases involving personal rights and ethics. Telecast on Tuesday nights from May 1 to June 26, 1956, It's the Law was more or less revived four years later as Case for the Court. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Frank Peddie, Cecil Wright, (more)
