Cyril Frankel — Director (4)
The Champions (1968) [TV] Douban TMDB
The Champions Season 1 part of TV Series: The Champions
director: Cyril Frankel / Paul Dickson actor: Stuart Damon / Alexandra Bastedo
英国电视剧《神勇斗士》,讲述三个政府特工克雷格、沙伦、理查德所坐的飞机撞毁在喜马拉雅山上,他们被当地神秘人所救,并被给与了超能力,从此三人开始了与各种势力和邪恶斗智斗勇……
此片在1968年到1969年间共播出30集。
The series starred Stuart Damon as Craig Stirling, Alexandra Bastedo as Sharron Macready and William Gaunt as Richard Barrett. The characters are agents for a United Nations law enforcement organization called "Nemesis", which is based in Geneva. The three have different backgrounds and skills: Barrett is a code breaker, Stirling a pilot, and Macready a scientist and doctor.
During a mission, their plane crashes in the Himalayas and they are rescued by an advanced civilization living secretly in the mountains, who save their lives, granting them superhuman abilities in the process. The powers now possessed by the three heroes include the ability to communicate with one another over long distances by ESP (mental telepathy), and the ability to foresee events (precognition); they also have enhanced senses and reasoning power, and physical abilities up to the extent of human limits.
Many of the stories featured unusual villains, such as fascist regimes from unspecified South American countries, neo-Nazis or the Chinese. The villains' schemes often threaten world peace in some way—Nemesis's brief is supposed to be international, so the agents deal with threats that transcend national interests and concerns. One feature of the series was that the main characters had to learn about the use of their new powers as they went along.
The only other series regular, Anthony Nicholls, played the Champions' boss, Tremayne. Tremayne does not openly acknowledge that his agents have acquired special abilities, though he does on occasion ask mock innocent questions about how they have carried out specific tasks while on missions.
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
director: Cyril Frankel actor: Patrick Allen / Gwen Watford
other title: Corruzione a Jamestown / Vertraue keinem Fremden
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
The Witches (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Witches
director: Cyril Frankel actor: Joan Fontaine / Kay Walsh
other title: Creatura del diavolo / Der Teufel tanzt um Mitternacht
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.
Invasion: UFO (1980) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Invasion: UFO
director: Gerry Anderson / Cyril Frankel actor: Ed Bishop / George Sewell
other title: UFO Allarme Rosso... Attacco alla Terra! / 80.000 Meilen durch den Weltraum
The Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and even animals and use them for their body parts. In the year 1980 S.H.A.D.O. (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization), a highly secret military organization, is set up in the hope of defending the Earth from this alien threat. This organization operates from a secret location beneath the Harlington-Straker film studio in London. S.H.A.D.O. also has a base on the moon with Interceptors as well as an early warning satellite that detects inbound UFOs (called S.I.D.), and operate a fleet of submarines. General James Henderson and commander Ed Straker have a team of highly trained and well equipped females and males to battle the regularly incoming hostile UFOs.