Alan Hume
Alan Hume, B.S.C. (16 October 1924 – 13 July 2010)) was a British cinematographer. Hume started work at Denham Film Studios in 1942, and in the late 1940s he worked for Cineguild production company. His early credits, before he was called up into the Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm during World War II, included Oliver and the The First of the Few, as a camera operator included Great Expectations (1948), Madeleine (1950) and The End of the Affair (1955). He was a cameraman for the successful Carry On comedy films, eventually alternating with Ernest Steward as the series' regular Director of Photography, beginning in 1961 with Carry On Regardless. Hume's other credits cinematography credits during the 1960s included the horror films The Kiss of the Vampire (1962, for Hammer Films) and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965, for Amicus Productions). Among his later films were Checkered Flag or Crash (1977), Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), Runaway Train (1985), A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and Shirley Valentine (1990). Hume had four children, all of whom have followed him into the film industry.
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For the Love of Ada
Based on the hit Thames Television sitcom, which ran from 1970 to 1971, FOR THE LOVE OF ADA follows the late-flowering romance between two young-at-heart pensioners. Irene Handl and Wilfred Pickles star as Ada and Walter Bingley who, despite being in their seventies, are only...Watch Movie -
Not Now Darling
Based on Ray Cooney's record-breaking stage farce, NOT NOW DARLING follows the misadventures of insatiable womanizer Gilbert Bodley, the boss of an exclusive West End fur salon. In order to give up his mistress Janie an expensive mink coat without upsetting her jealous husband, Gilbert agrees to...Watch Movie