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Mutz Greenbaum

Born February 3, 1896 · Berlin, Germany

Died July 1, 1968 · aged 72

No biography available.

Known For

Night and the City · 1950

Night and the City

★ 7.51950

MovieDramaCrime

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

I'm All Right Jack · 1959

I'm All Right Jack

★ 6.61959

MovieComedy

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

Storm in a Teacup · 1937

Storm in a Teacup

★ 7.41937

MovieComedyRomance

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

"Pimpernel" Smith · 1941

"Pimpernel" Smith

★ 7.11941

MovieAdventureDrama

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

So Evil My Love · 1948

So Evil My Love

★ 6.41948

MovieDramaThriller

In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.

Story of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story "Because of the dollars" by Joseph Conrad.

The Secret Ways · 1961

The Secret Ways

★ 5.51961

MovieAdventureMystery

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist escape from Budapest.

Emil and the Detectives · 1935

Emil and the Detectives

★ 5.51935

MovieComedyCrime

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. Believed lost for decades, it was recently rediscovered by the BFI and has now been restored. The film moves the action from Berlin to London, where Emil goes to stay with his grandmother and cousin. Thereafter, the tale of Emil’s adventures with a gang of streetwise London children faithfully follows the original plot.

Filmography

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Night and the City · 1950

Night and the City

★ 7.51950

MovieDramaCrime

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

Director of Photography

I'm All Right Jack · 1959

I'm All Right Jack

★ 6.61959

MovieComedy

Director of Photography

Storm in a Teacup · 1937

Storm in a Teacup

★ 7.41937

MovieComedyRomance

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

Director of Photography

"Pimpernel" Smith · 1941

"Pimpernel" Smith

★ 7.11941

MovieAdventureDrama

Technical Supervisor

So Evil My Love · 1948

So Evil My Love

★ 6.41948

MovieDramaThriller

Director of Photography

Story of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story "Because of the dollars" by Joseph Conrad.

Director of Photography

The Secret Ways · 1961

The Secret Ways

★ 5.51961

MovieAdventureMystery

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist escape from Budapest.

Director of Photography

Emil and the Detectives · 1935

Emil and the Detectives

★ 5.51935

MovieComedyCrime

Director of Photography

I Live in Grosvenor Square · 1945

I Live in Grosvenor Square

★ 6.81945

MovieComedyDrama

The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.

Cinematography

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.

Director of Photography

The Stars Look Down · 1940

The Stars Look Down

★ 6.51940

MovieDrama

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.

Director of Photography

The Lady with a Lamp · 1951

The Lady with a Lamp

★ 6.61951

MovieDrama

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.

Director of Photography

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.

Director of Photography

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

Director of Photography

Heavens Above! · 1963

Heavens Above!

★ 6.61963

MovieComedy

A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman and a black man as vicar's wardens and throwing open the vicarage to the sprawling, disreputable Smith family, who have just been evicted from their caravan site. He converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity but he soon has the town and much of the country in uproar.

Director of Photography

Lilacs in the Spring · 1954

Lilacs in the Spring

★ 6.01954

MovieRomanceComedy

A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.

Director of Photography

A hunt for a spy in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

Director of Photography

Sparrows Can't Sing · 1963

Sparrows Can't Sing

★ 5.31963

MovieComedyDrama

Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.

Director of Photography

After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish, who as the Moonraker has already spirited away many Royalists. Dawlish travels to the Windwhistle Inn on the south coast to prepare the escape, where he meets Anne Wyndham, the fiancée of a top Roundhead colonel.

Director of Photography

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Cinematography

The Courtneys of Curzon Street · 1947

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

★ 5.31947

MovieDramaRomance

On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through four generations, with separations, joys, tragedies, and service in the Boer War, WWI, and WWII.

Director of Photography

Non-Stop New York · 1937

Non-Stop New York

★ 6.81937

MovieDramaCrime

A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.

Director of Photography

Carlton-Browne of the F.O. · 1959

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

★ 6.11959

MovieComedy

Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.

Director of Photography

The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. (From Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA)

Director of Photography