The Best Years of a Life
The Best Years of a Life is a 2019 French drama film directed by Claude Lelouch.
It was screened out of competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later( literally" A Man and a Woman, 20 Years Already") is a 1986 French drama film directed by Claude Lelouch and is a sequel to Lelouch's 1966 film" Un homme et une femme".
It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
A follow up to both films," The Best Years of a Life", again starring Trintignant and Aimee, was released in 2019.
Paul Temple's Triumph
Paul Temple's Triumph is a 1950 British crime film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan and Jack Livesey.
It was the third in the series of four Paul Temple films made at Nettlefold Studios, and was an adaptation of the Francis Durbridge radio serial" News of Paul Temple"( 1939).
Temple is on the trail of a gang of international criminals trying to steal atomic secrets.
Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch( born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer.
Jack Raine
Thomas Foster" Jack" Raine( 18 May 1897 – 30 May 1979) was an English stage, television and film actor.
He was a leading man of the British cinema in the late twenties and early thirties in such films as" The Hate Ship"( 1929)," Raise the RoofSuspense Night Birds" and" The Middle Watch"( all 1930), before moving down the cast list and becoming a character actor.
Throughout the thirties and forties he appeared in numerous supporting roles, usually as sturdy figures of authority, including" The Ghoul"( 1933)," The Clairvoyant"( 1934)," Holiday CampMine Own Executioner"( both 1947) and" Easy Money"( 1948).
He also played Sir Graham Forbes in the first two Paul Temple films" Send for Paul Temple"( 1946) and" Calling Paul Temple"( 1948).
One of his last British films was a rare co-starring role of this era in the' B' movie" No Way Back"( 1949), opposite Terence De Marney, in which he played against type as a small time gangster.
Like a lot of British actors during the fifties he made the move to Hollywood and enjoyed a career of character roles which continued into the seventies.
These included" Julius Caesar"( 1953)," An Affair to Remember"( 1957)," Witness for the Prosecution"( both 1957)," My Fair Lady"( 1964)," Doctor Doolittle"( 1967)," The Killing of Sister George"( 1968) and" Bedknobs and Broomsticks"( 1971).
Numerous television roles included Father Knows Best( Tv Series)
" Perry MasonMister Ed77 Sunset Strip The Outer Limits The Twilight Zone The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and" Ironside".
He also portrayed Dr. Watson opposite Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes on the radio, and on Broadway, after the passing of Rathbone's screen Watson, Nigel Bruce.
He was married to musical theatre actress Binnie Hale from 1924 until their divorce in 1934.
He was subsequently married to Sonia Phyllis Bellamy and then Theodora Moreau Wilson.
Send for Paul Temple
Send for Paul Temple is a 1946 British crime film directed by John Argyle and starring Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton and Tamara Desni.
Paul Temple is called in by Scotland Yard after a major diamond theft.
It was the first of four film adaptations of the BBC's Paul Temple radio serials, with John Bentley taking over the lead role in future installments.
The film is an abridged version of the first ever" Paul Temple" radio serial, originally broadcast in 1938( and re-made in 1940 with a Canadian cast for broadcasting in Canada), which was also entitled" Send for Paul Temple".
The radio script was written by Francis Durbridge.
The film script is only indirectly based on the radio drama, since the screenplay is actually an adaptation by John Argyle of Durbridge's 1938 novel, which Durbridge had in turn based on the scripts for his 8- part radio serial.
Accordingly, much of the 200 minute nominal duration of the radio production has been discarded in abridging the story to fit the film's much shorter 83 minute running time, and the plot has consequently been heavily truncated and considerably simplified.
None of the radio cast appear in the film, although at the time of its UK release in 1946 this was not necessarily a significant drawback as the BBC had not then fixed on a particular cast for their radio broadcasts, and in fact seven different actors would portray the eponymous hero on BBC radio between 1938 and 1954 -- none of whom would ever be seen in the part since the BBC did not adapt the series for television until 1969, so in the 1940s and 1950s the films offered the only on- screen portrayal of Durbridge's characters.
The DVD release misleadingly describes the film as written by Durbridge, although it was not.
The adaptation is by Argyle, who reuses the names of characters and places from the novel, and recycles some plot ideas and situations, and the basic storyline; but a comparison with the extant 1940 Canadian radio production reveals( unsurprisingly, since five of the eight radio episodes have been omitted) that little of Durbridge's original dialogue, characterisation or detailed plotting survives.
Durbridge's trademark ability to construct his radio dramas around the seven cliffhanger endings in his multipart serials is entirely lost.
Paul Temple Returns
Paul Temple Returns is a 1952 British crime film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring John Bentley, Patricia Dainton and Peter Gawthorne.
Known in the U.S. as "Bombay Waterfront", it was the fourth and last in the series of Paul Temple films, although the character was revived for the BBC television series "Paul Temple" in 1969.
John Argyle
John Argyle( 1911–1962) was a British screenwriter, producer and film director.
Till the End of Time (film)
Till the End of Time is a 1946 drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum, and Bill Williams.
Released the same year as but preceding the better known" The Best Years of Our Lives", it covers much the same topic: the adjustment of World War II veterans to civilian life.
It was based on the novel" They Dream of Home" by Niven Busch.
Unlike the soldier, sailor and airman of" The Best Years of Our Lives", the male leads in this film are all U.S. Marines.
Frédéric Chopin's Polonaise Op. 53 is played throughout the film; it was given lyrics and became a major hit at the time.
Ros Drinkwater
Ros Drinkwater( born 14 February 1944) is a Scottish- born actress, best known for her portrayal of Paul Temple's wife, Steve, in the eponymous television series, based on the character created by Francis Durbridge.
She later moved into photojournalism.
Ros Drinkwater was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 14 February 1944.
Her family was Anglo- Irish and her grandfather had been in the Indian Army.
Drinkwater worked as a dancer in Las Vegas before turning to acting.
In the late 1960s, she appeared in a number of episodes of British television series, including" Dr Finlay's CasebookA Matter of Confidence", 1966)," Champion House The Saddest Words", 1967)," The SaintInvitation to Danger", 1968) and" Special Branch The Kazmirov Affair", 1969).
She also appeared briefly in the film" Song of Norway"( 1970) as one of Franz Liszt's friends.
Drinkwater's best known role was as Steve Temple(" née" Louise Harvey but in the earlier radio serials was a Fleet Street journalist using the name Steve Trent) the wife of writer/ detective Paul Temple( Francis Matthews), in" Paul Temple"( 1969 – 71).
This was a co-production by the BBC and Taurus films of Munich, West Germany.
According to Matthews, Drinkwater chose her own" very expensive" designer clothes for the part.
" Paul Temple" lasted for two years and was popular in West Germany.
There appears to have been some disagreement between the BBC and Taurus over the casting of Steve Temple( who had been played in the radio series of" Paul Temple" from 1945- 68 by Marjorie Westbury), the BBC wishing to drop Drinkwater, but Taurus favouring her retention.
Drinkwater subsequently became a photojournalist, based in Ireland, where she has a small farm in County Monaghan.
Ros Drinkwater is sometimes referred to as the older sister of actor Carol Drinkwater but the two are not related.

Question: Are the directors of films Send for Paul Temple and The Best Years of a Life both from the same country?
Answer: no