Movies: Eric Portman

  • 1935
    Hyde Park Corner

    Hyde Park Corner (1935)

    Hyde Park Corner

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    A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936....

    Hyde Park Corner
  • 1943
    Squadron Leader X

    Squadron Leader X (1943)

    Squadron Leader X

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    Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the ...

    Squadron Leader X
  • 1933
    The Girl from Maxim's

    The Girl from Maxim's (1933)

    The Girl from Maxim's

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    A Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904....

    The Girl from Maxim's
  • 1935
    Old Roses

    Old Roses (1935)

    Old Roses

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    An elderly man assists the police in solving a murder, but accidentally reveals his own criminal past in the process....

    Old Roses
  • 1969
    Painter and Poet No. 2

    Painter and Poet No. 2 (1969)

    Painter and Poet No. 2

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    A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is something for everyone in this “experiment in words, music and paintings”. Four films were made in this series for the BFI’s Telekinema at the Festival of B...

    Painter and Poet No. 2
  • 1945
    The Air Plan

    The Air Plan (1945)

    The Air Plan

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    Eric Portman narrates this 1945 retrospective account from the RAF Film Production Unit, celebrating the RAF's role in the Normandy campaign, with outstanding footage of RAF Typhoons's blitzing targets with salvos of rockets and cannon fire....

    The Air Plan