• Midshipman Easy is a 1935 British adventure film directed by Carol Reed and starring Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood, Harry Tate and Robert Adams. The...
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    Mr Midshipman Easy is an 1836 novel by Frederick Marryat, a retired captain in the British Royal Navy. The novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars, in...
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    extensive tour of Canada, in 1935 Green appeared in his first film, Midshipman Easy, then went to Hollywood, California, where he appeared in the film...
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  • director were "quota quickies".[citation needed] Of his experience making Midshipman Easy (1935) his first solo directorial project he was harsh on himself....
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    nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836). He is remembered also for his children's novel The Children...
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  • Midshipman Easy is a 1915 British silent adventure film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Elisabeth Risdon, Fred Groves and A. V. Bramble. It was...
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  • A midshipman is an officer of the lowest rank in the Royal Navy, United States Navy, and many Commonwealth navies. Commonwealth countries which use the...
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    The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene favorably compared the film to Midshipman Easy, describing Treasure Island as having "a deeper, a more poetic value"...
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  • These were standard ingénue roles. She was the female love interest in Midshipman Easy (1935), directed by Carol Reed, who would become crucial to Lockwood's...
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    (The Pilot, 1824) and Frederick Marryat (Frank Mildmay, 1829 and Mr Midshipman Easy 1836) in the early 19th century. There were 18th century and earlier...
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  • Frederick Marryat describes a three-way duel in his novel Mr. Midshipman Easy, published in 1836. This duel is more of a circular affair, with the...
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  • Doone (1934) - Tom Faggus The Price of Wisdom (1935) - Peter North Midshipman Easy (1935) - Captain Wilson Rembrandt (1936) - Beggar Saul The Drum (1938)...
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    (from Mr Midshipman Easy by Captain Frederick Marryat) Hotspur (from Hornblower and the Hotspur by C. S. Forester) Justinian (from Mr. Midshipman Hornblower...
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  • A list of stories published in the Amalgamated Press/Fleetway Publications weekly boys' comic Knockout between 1939 and 1963. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C...
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  • Lamprecht Drama. 1935 United Kingdom Midshipman Easy Carol Reed Adventure. Based on a novel Mr Midshipman Easy. 1936 Italy The Two Sergeants I due sergenti...
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    made a lasting mark on his life and writing. He named Marryat's Mr Midshipman Easy as his favourite novel. Joe Sommerlad in The Independent writes, "Dahl's...
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  • v t e Films directed by Carol Reed Midshipman Easy (1935) Laburnum Grove (1936) Talk of the Devil (1936) Who's Your Lady Friend? (1937) Bank Holiday (1938)...
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    Film Festival's Best First Work award-winning film The Duellists. Mr Midshipman Easy (1836), semi-autobiographical novel by Captain Frederick Marryat, who...
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    Doone January 1935 Basil Dean Look Up and Laugh June 1935 Basil Dean Midshipman Easy October 1935 Carol Reed No Limit November 1935 Monty Banks Whom the...
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  • Film Festival's Best First Work award-winning film The Duellists. Mr Midshipman Easy (1836), semi-autobiographical novel by Captain Frederick Marryat, who...
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    Escape (1930) Crime on the Hill (1933) The Night Club Queen (1934) Midshipman Easy (1935) Calling the Tune (1936) South Riding (1938) Shake Hands with...
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    took over £7 million at the UK Box Office. Between these, Ealing released Easy Virtue (2008), directed by Stephan Elliott and Dorian Gray (2009), directed...
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    of "Sword and Gun." Mr. Midshipman Breezy - A Naval Officer Captain M-rry-t, R.N. Captain Frederick Marryat Mr Midshipman Easy John Jenkins; or, The Smoker...
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  • often doomed to untimely deaths in such early films as Carol Reed's Midshipman Easy (1935), Tudor Rose (1936), The Stars Look Down (1939) and Sabotage...
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  • (1915) From Shopgirl to Duchess (1915) Gilbert Gets Tiger-Itis (1915) Midshipman Easy (1915) Fine Feathers (1915) Florence Nightingale (1915) A Will of Her...
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    Luck of a Sailor The Man Who Knew Too Much Minor Role Uncredited 1935 Midshipman Easy The Morals of Marcus 1936 Laburnum Grove Spy of Napoleon Minor Role...
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  • Joan Bennett Men of Action, starring Frankie Darro and Barbara Worth Midshipman Easy, directed by Carol Reed, starring Hughie Green and Margaret Lockwood...
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  • McGuffey Readers Frederick Marryat Japhet, in Search of a Father Mr Midshipman Easy The Pirate The Three Cutters Agnes Strickland – Tales and Stories From...
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  • Agnes Strickland, 1826 "The Young Crusoe", Barbara Hofland (1828) Mr Midshipman Easy, Frederick Marryat (1836) Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific...
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  • appearing as a film extra in 1934, and had roles in films including Midshipman Easy (1935), Song of Freedom (1936) and King Solomon's Mines (1937), the...
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