Born on this day – Herbert Lom:

Herbert Lom

Actor

September 11, 1917 – September 27, 2012

Credits:

99 Women (1969); A Shot in the Dark (1964); Action of the Tiger (1957); After Mein Kampf?: The Story of Adolph Hitler (1940); Agatha Christie's Marple (2004–2007); And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973); Appointment with Crime (1946); Assignment to Kill (1968); Asylum (1972); Bang! Bang! You're Dead! (1966); BBC Play of the Month (1982); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1951); Bozí mlýny (1938); Brass Monkey (1948); Cage of Gold (1950); Charleston (1977); Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958); Count Dracula (1970); Curse of the Pink Panther (1983); Dark Places (1974); Die Nibelungen 2. Teil - Kriemhilds Rache (1967); Dorian Gray (1970); Dual Alibi (1947); El Cid (1961); En plein vol (1957); Eve (1968); Fire Down Below (1957); Gambit (1966); Going Bananas (1987); Golden Salamander (1950); Good-Time Girl (1948); Hawaii Five-O (1971); Hell Drivers (1957); Hell Is Sold Out (1951); Hopscotch (1980); Hotel Reserve (1944); I Accuse! (1958); I Aim at the Stars (1960); I Like Money (1961); Intent to Kill (1958); Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969); Karel Hynek Mácha (1938); King Solomon's Mines (1985); Lace (1984); Lost Daughter (1949); Mark of the Devil (1970); Master of Dragonard Hill (1987); Memed My Hawk (1984); Mister Jerico (1970); Mr. Denning Drives North (1951); Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971); Mysterious Island (1961); Night and the City (1950); Night Boat to Dublin (1946); No Trees in the Street (1959); North West Frontier (1959); Peter and Paul (1981); Project M7 (1953); Return from the Ashes (1965); Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978); River of Death (1989); Room 43 (1958); Scoop (1987); Secret Mission (1942); Sherlock Holmes v pánském klubu aneb Komisar Dreyfus zasahuje (1992); Shoot First (1953); Skeleton Coast (1988); Snowbound (1948); Son of the Pink Panther (1993); Spartacus (1960); Star of India (1954); Ten Little Indians (1974 / 1989); The Big Fisherman (1959); The Black Rose (1950); The Dark Tower (1943); The Dead Zone (1983); The Detectives (1994); The Errol Flynn Theatre (1956); The Frightened City (1961); The Great Manhunt (1950); The Human Jungle (1963–1964); The Lady Vanishes (1979); The Ladykillers (1955); The Lost People (1949); The Love Lottery (1954); The Magical World of Disney (1963); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); The Man with Bogart's Face (1980); The Masque of the Red Death (1989); The Paris Express (1952); The Phantom of the Opera (1962); The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976); The Pope Must Diet (1991); The Return of the Pink Panther (1975); The Ringer (1952); The Roots of Heaven (1958); The Sect (1991); The Seventh Veil (1945); The Wrong Widget (1955); The Young Mr. Pitt (1942); Third Man on the Mountain (1959); Tiara Tahiti (1962); Tomorrow We Live (1942); Trail of the Pink Panther (1982); Treasure of Silver Lake (1962); Twist of Fate (1954); Two on the Tiles (1951); Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965); Villa Rides (1968); War and Peace (1956); Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (1952); Whoops Apocalypse (1987); Woman Below the Cross (1937).

On this day in movie history - Night and the City (1950 movie & novel):

Night and the City

directed by Jules Dassin,

written by Austin Dempster, William E. Watts and Jo Eisinger,

based on the novel by Gerald Kersh,

was released in the United States on June 9, 1950.
Music by Benjamin Frankel and Franz Waxman.

Cast:

Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, Herbert Lom, Aubrey Dexter, Maureen Delany, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Mike Mazurki, Ada Reeve, Charles Farrell, Ken Richmond, Edward Chapman, James Hayter, Gibb McLaughlin, Dirk Bogarde.

Recommended reading:

Night And The City

By Gerald Kersh.

Published by London Books.

First published 1938.

ISBN-10: 0995721734

ISBN-13: 9780995721739

Description:

Harry Fabian is a cockney wide boy trying to make it big in the Soho underworld of the 1930s. He is a Flash Harry in an expensive suit, a chancer operating in a cosmopolitan corner of the city where villains, spivs, prostitutes and strong-arm men thrive. But his ambition and reckless nature are pushing him towards more and more extreme acts - and a day of reckoning. Night And The City is a classic work of social-realist fiction that captures the vibrant yet seedy underbelly of London between the world wars. Its author Gerald Kersh was high-profile, prolific and hugely popular at his peak, but would later drift into hardship and obscurity. His writing is now being rediscovered. A maverick character in his own right, Kersh's life was as colourful as those of his most flamboyant creations. As well as a highly respected novel, Night And The City was twice filmed - in 1950 and 1992 - and it is the first of these adaptations that is today regarded as one of the best of the British film-noir genre. Directed by Jules Dassin and starring Richard Widmark and Googie Withers, it was shot in a post-war landscape heavy with menace and charm - just like the book on which it was based.

December in movie history - Assignment to Kill (1968):

Assignment to Kill

directed and written by Sheldon Reynolds,

was released in the United States in December, 1968.
Exact release date unknown.
Music by William Lava.

Cast:

Patrick O'Neal, Joan Hackett, John Gielgud, Herbert Lom, Eric Portman, Peter van Eyck, Oskar Homolka, Leon Greene, Kent Smith, Philip Ober, Fifi D'Orsay, Éva Szörényi, Cynthia O'Neal, Betty Bresler, Karl Bruck, Albert D'Arno, Walter Friedel, Walter Janovitz, Joanne Ludden, Martin Miller, Ann Prentiss, Charles H. Radilak, Erik Sorenson.