Edward J. Danziger Movies
- 1962
Battleax is proof positive that "mother in law" jokes are not the exclusive domain of American TV comedians. The middling British comedy stars Francis Matthews and Jill Ireland as an engaged couple. Matthews' and Ireland's pre-connubial bliss is shattered by the future bride's domineering mother. Unable to withstand this wicked witch of the Northlands, Matthews tries to weasel out of the marriage by suing Ireland for breach of promise--the broken promise being that momma would stop meddling. Joan Haythorne is the title character, as well as the sole reason to spend the 66 minutes required to sit through Battleax. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1961
When a Nazi party member tries to defect to England due to a change of heart in the party's plans, he is chased by the Gestapo in this World War II film. ~ All Movie Guide
Horror tale inspired by the classic Edgar Allan Poe story, in which a writer fantasizes murdering his friend over a beautiful woman, and then hearing the dead man's heart continuing to beat. (Alternate title: The Hidden Room Of 1,000 Horrors) ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide
- 1960
This mystery is based on a 1954 play by Agatha Christie. It tells the story of an ambassador's wife who must hide the corpse of her husband from his daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1960
In this crime thriller, a convicted embezzler kidnaps his son after his release from prison, not knowing that the boy is diabetic and will die without insulin injections. The police launch a massive manhunt. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide
- 1960
Identity Unknown concentrates on the grief-stricken relatives of passengers killed in a plane crash. In the first portions of the film, the anguished relatives are forced to wait while the identity of the victims is established. The story then fragments into a series of flashbacks, detailing the lives of the victims and those they leave behind. The film was produced by Edward and Harry Lee Danziger, past masters in the field of British lower-berth programmers. Watch for a young Nyree Dawn Porter in a minor role. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1960
In this drama, an American journalist goes to England and winds up assisting a prominent lawyer's nephew after he is falsely accused of murdering a girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1960
In this crime drama, an engineer is falsely accused of selling secret information to enemy spies and receives a life sentence in prison. The engineer thinks his ex-partner is behind the frame-up and so asks his son, a law student, to look into it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1959
A troubled teen discovers that reform isn't always easy in this drama. The lad is on probation for robbery when he falls in love with a wealthy young girl. Wanting to help him out, she gets him a job in her father's textile mill. Things are swell there until her father is unable to find his wallet. Due to the boy's dubious recent past, he is naturally the first suspect. Afraid that no one will believe him innocent, the boy takes off. In desperate need of quick cash, he robs a store. Eventually the police catch up to him, but by this time the wallet has been found and the boy's gal convinces him to go face his crime and go straight for good. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1959
In this crime drama, a young man must prove himself innocent of murder to clear his name and marry the daughter of a baronet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1959
Julian Caesar, the board chairman of a large company deals with jealousy and treachery among his underlings as he fights to maintain control and power in this reworking of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." The duplicitous directors are led by the ruthless R. Cassius who after much badgering convinces the one honest director left, Brutus Smith, to join up and vote Caesar down. Upon losing his position, poor Caesar dies of a heart-attack, leaving Mark Anthony to take over and immediately toss out all the bad apples on the board. The despondent Brutus then takes his own life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1959
In this mystery, a girls school gym teacher is almost lynched after he is accused of murder. Fortunately, the art teacher, his girl friend, saves him. Together they begin investigating the crime and successfully expose the real culprit before he strikes again. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1959
In this crime drama, a trapeze artist cannot stop a seductress from coming on to him. The sexy woman soon convinces him to help her steal some jewels. Feeling remorse at killing two people during the heist, the basically honest acrobat confesses all to the police. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1959
In this crime drama, an impoverished but enamored bank clerk joins his brother's gang of bank robbers so he can afford to marry his sweetheart. Unfortunately, their latest caper fails and the bank clerk accidentally gets involved in a murder leaving him to take a hard look at the life he has chosen. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1959
The child is played by Tommy Martin; the killer by Robert Arden. A US army officer on the lam after committing murder, Arden bursts into the home of widowed Patricia Driscoll. At gunpoint, he orders Driscoll's son Martin to lead him through the backwaters of rural England to safety. The two form a tentative friendship, but Arden shows his true collars before the day is done. Child and the Killer has elements in common with the much-later Kevin Costner vehicle A Perfect World. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1959
Cowritten by future Avengers mainstay Brian Clemens, the British-filmed Crash Drive plays like an American Pat O'Brien programmer of the 1930s. Dermot Walsh stars as a race car driver who is paralyzed in an accident. Rather than accept the situation, he immerses himself in the mire of self-pity. Only the return of estranged wife Wendy Williams snaps Walsh out of his weeping and wailing. Just as Wendy Williams is not rock star Wendy O. Williams, neither is Crash Drive supporting actor Ian Fleming the same person as the novelist. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dermot Walsh, Wendy Williams, (more)
- 1959
In this romance, a crooked, over-ambitious clerk will do anything to make it to the top, even if it means getting engaged to a man she doesn't love. Her "beloved" is the son of her richest client. Fortunately, by the story's end, the woman reconsiders her goals and ends up falling for a minor executive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1959
In this crime drama, an amiable widow must use her savings to raise her son. One day she happens upon some stolen money which she takes and squirrels away for her boy's education. Unfortunately, the thieves return to find it. Fortunately, a friend is there to defend her from them, and later she turns the money into the police. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1958
Boyish leading man Jack Watling is caught up in a rather mature set of circumstances in Links of Justice. In concert with his mistress Kay Callard, Watling plots to murder his wealthy wife Sarah Lawson. The best laid schemes gang aft agley, and the wrong person ends up dead. In a variation of Dial M for Murder, a false murder accusation is dissipated by the timely arrival of a housebreaker. Chalk up another serviceable second-feature British melodrama for the production team of Edward and Harry Danzinger. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1958
In this crime drama, three criminals break into a man's store so they can get into the bank next door. The trouble really begins when the store owner suddenly shows up. The robbers take him hostage. A man walks past, sees trouble, and tries to assist. Unfortunately, he too is captured. Fortunately, the police show up and capture the three crooks. They also arrest the owner and the passerby because they think they too are involved. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1958
The Danzinger Brothers, those cost-conscious Hollywood filmmakers who brought you such gems as Babes in Bagdad, shifted their base of operations to England and Europe in the mid-1950s. It was in England where the Danzinger boys bankrolled The Betrayal, which represented a step up from some of their tackier American films. Phillip Friend stars as a WW II pilot who was blinded while imprisoned by the Nazis. He knows that one of his fellow officers betrayed him to the Germans, but now is unable to identity the traitor by sight. Friend is aided in his search for the turncoat by model Diana Decker. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1958
In this thriller, a married woman's unfortunately placed handkerchief leads police to accuse her of murder. Fortunately, her husband stands beside her and goes looking for the killer himself. He succeeds. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1958
In this drama, an English doctor returns from the US with his fiancee and finds himself forced to choose between the young woman he loves and his overbearing, disapproving mother, whom he also loves. He marries the girl despite his mother's loud protestations. When she learns the girl has a fragile heart, the mother insists they move in with her. One day the mother accidentally gives her daughter-in-law the wrong medication and the hapless bride nearly dies. Fortunately, the doctor saves his wife; he then accuses his mother of attempted murder. Later it's discovered that the mix-up was the maid's fault. Things settle down as the three realize they need to call a truce. Peace descends upon their lives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1957
Who's "depraved" in the British Depraved? Just about everyone, it seems. Married to drunken, abusive lout Basil Dignam, Anne Heywood inaugurates an affair with American army officer Robert Arden. Anne convinces Arden to help her do away with her husband. As if this is going to solve things in a melodrama of this nature. Another gem from the Danzinger brothers. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anne Heywood, Robert Arden, (more)
- 1957
After a former dance band leader is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Desperate to prove his innocence, he busts out of prison, contacts his lover and embarks upon a desperate search for the one woman who witnessed the killing. Unfortunately, the real killer gets to her first and murders her. To catch the murderer, the band leader resorts to trickery. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
