Job Director, Producer, Actor
Top Roles Horse Race Spectator
Top GenresDrama, Romance, War, Crime, Historical, Short Films
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Brian Desmond Hurst Overview:

Director, Brian Desmond Hurst, was born on Feb 12, 1895 in Castlereagh, Northern Ireland. Desmond Hurst died at the age of 91 on Sep 26, 1986 in London, UK .

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Hungry Hill (1947, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 30, 2019 From The Stop Button

I have never read Hungry Hill: The Novel, but even before I finished watching Hungry Hill: The Film, I?d decided it?s one of the worst novel-to-film adaptations. It?s impossible know what point novel author Daphne Du Maurier was trying to make but it didn?t come through in the film. If she was even ... Read full article


Hungry Hill (1947, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 30, 2019 From The Stop Button

I have never read Hungry Hill: The Novel, but even before I finished watching Hungry Hill: The Film, I?d decided it?s one of the worst novel-to-film adaptations. It?s impossible know what point novel author Daphne Du Maurier was trying to make but it didn?t come through in the film. If she was even ... Read full article


Hungry Hill (1947, )

on Jun 30, 2019 From The Stop Button

I have never read Hungry Hill: The Novel, but even before I finished watching Hungry Hill: The Film, I?d decided it?s one of the worst novel-to-film adaptations. It?s impossible know what point novel author Daphne Du Maurier was trying to make but it didn?t come through in the film. If she was even ... Read full article


Hungry Hill (1947, )

on Jun 30, 2019 From The Stop Button

I have never read Hungry Hill: The Novel, but even before I finished watching Hungry Hill: The Film, I?d decided it?s one of the worst novel-to-film adaptations. It?s impossible know what point novel author Daphne Du Maurier was trying to make but it didn?t come through in the film. If she was even ... Read full article


Miss Grant Goes to the Door (1940, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on May 13, 2019 From The Stop Button

Miss Grant Goes to the Door is a rather well-executed propaganda short. There?s an air raid and two British sisters prepare to go to the shelter. Mary Clare is the noncommittal one, who wants to go back to bed, who needs to get her sewing before she can go to the basement. She even turns on the ligh... Read full article


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Hurst's Ourselves Alone (the Irish translation is Sinn Fien)was banned in his native Northern Ireland at the time of its release in 1936 although it has now achieved the recognition it deserved and is shown in museums and other public access points in Northern Ireland. It appears to have been misunderstood. At the time Hurst pointed out the original story had been written by an British army officer and Hurst claimed that the film was 'pro-British'.

John Ford has referred to the Ulster director as his "cousin".

Best known to modern day audiences as the director of "Scrooge", the 1951 film version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", but also noted as the director of the 1939 WWII propaganda film "The Lion Has Wings".

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