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Frank Sydney Box (29 April 1907 – 25 May 1983) was a British film producer and screenwriter, and brother of British film producer Betty Box. In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Jay Lewis.[2]
He produced and co-wrote the screenplay, with his then wife director Muriel Box, for The Seventh Veil (1945), which received the 1946 Oscar for best original screenplay.[3]
Sydney and Muriel married in 1935, had a daughter Leonora the following year, and divorced in 1969.
Most Popular Sydney Box Trailers
Total trailers found: 51
10 August 1954
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away.
20 January 1948
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted.
01 February 1949
An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true.
17 March 1953
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
01 May 1943
Scraps of information are gathered and pieced together by an enemy who lurks in the shadows, proving that nowhere is safe to discuss sensitive wartime information on the home front.
23 June 1947
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
04 March 1957
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers.
22 May 1944
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
01 May 1945
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue.
02 December 1948
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
19 April 1955
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror.
04 May 1954
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
14 September 1948
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
05 September 1960
A playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to rob a foreign embassy's safe, but trouble starts when the plan begins to go wrong.
18 November 1958
A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.
13 November 1944
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
28 April 1948
Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime.
01 January 1937
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering.
18 May 1948
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
14 April 1948
A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged batteries and with limited food supplies, the survivors must come to a decision -- whether to stay and wait for help they believe is coming or to leave the shelter of the wrecked plane and set out in bad weather to try to reach civilization.
31 October 1954
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash.
12 February 1967
British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
31 May 1950
Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel.
08 March 1960
A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
02 January 1944
Examines the role of art in WWII; featuring Henry Moore's drawings of London Underground during bombing raids, Paul Nash's paintings of aircraft dumps, Stanley Spencer's shipbuilding panels, Evelyn Dunbar's land girls, alongside many amateur artists too.
05 August 1947
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
01 December 1936
Mannequins in Co-operative Wholesale Society window come to life.
17 June 1947
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died.
01 January 1942
Propaganda short showing how boy scouts can help the war effort in Britain.
01 January 1941
Captures the varied work of the Women's Voluntary Services.
15 November 1941
Using boxing as a metaphor, methods of dealing with enemy tanks are discussed.
23 May 1936
A publicity film made for Cadburys.
01 December 1948
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
01 November 1959
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs.
29 June 1942
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
08 July 1946
After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again.
19 August 1948
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard.
01 October 1957
A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.
21 July 1959
After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent.
12 October 1949
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
07 May 1947
An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
14 August 1956
Lucy Church, the sole witness to a fatal robbery, is struck by a passing bus and her life lies in the balance as the thieves wait for a chance to finish her off.
19 May 1947
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
28 October 1946
A young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is broken by a lovely young girl to whom he is forced to give shelter.
28 November 1935
A young inventor is wrongfully accused of killing a night watchmen committed by a gang during a jewel robbery.
06 September 1943
Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.
18 October 1945
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
10 October 1959
The movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa .
13 August 1947
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home.
30 March 1952
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr.
01 January 1945
This short film features two atmospheric scenes from Shakespeare's famous tragedy: Act II Scene 2, the murder scene, and Act V Scene 1, with Lady Macbeth and that damned spot.
