The Wind Cannot Read is a 1958 British drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Yoko Tani, Ronald Lewis and John Fraser. It was based...
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Donald Pleasence (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
opposite Alec Guinness in Barnacle Bill (1957) and Dirk Bogarde in The Wind Cannot Read (1958). In Tony Richardson's film of Look Back in Anger (1959), he...
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Dirk Bogarde (category Military personnel from the London Borough of Camden)
falls in love with a beautiful Japanese teacher Yoko Tani in The Wind Cannot Read (1958);The Doctor's Dilemma (1959), based on a play by George Bernard...
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Richard Mason (novelist, born 1919) (category Burials in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome)
The Wind Cannot Read (1946), may shed some light on Auden's critique: "When I was a boy at school I had written a story about a man and a woman. The English...
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English-language cinema came with the 1958 production The Wind Cannot Read. This film, a war-time love story, had originally been a project of the British producer Alexander...
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Ralph Thomas (category Recipients of the Military Cross)
at the international market: Campbell's Kingdom (1957), A Tale of Two Cities (1958) and The Wind Cannot Read (also 1958). None of these achieved the financial...
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related movies – The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Camp on Blood Island, Dunkirk, The Key, Carve Her Name with Pride, The Wind Cannot Read – as well as Carry...
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dramas. Lewis had a starring role as the bad brother in Robbery Under Arms (1957) and was a villain in The Wind Cannot Read (1958). He was in Schiller's Mary...
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(1957) - Person at Board Meeting The Wind Cannot Read (1958) - Lt. Nakamura Songoku: The Road to the West (1959) The Big Wave (1961) - Yukio's Father...
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started on another Mason adaptation, The Wind Cannot Read. McKenna was pregnant during filming and it would be the last film she made for Rank (although...
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Keiko Kishi (category Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class)
Nakamura's film Home Sweet Home. In the 1950s, David Lean proposed her for the main role in The Wind Cannot Read, which is about a Japanese language instructor...
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include Windom's Way (1957), Robbery Under Arms (1957), The Wind Cannot Read (1958), Nor the Moon by Night (1958) and Ferry to Hong Kong (1959). Box said...
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Above Us the Waves (1955) – George The Battle of the River Plate (1956) – Lookout, HMS Ajax (uncredited) The Wind Cannot Read (1958) – Moss The Captain's...
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Rank Organisation Film Productions (category Film production companies of the United Kingdom)
attendances. (The company had four films in production at the time - A Night to Remember, Nor the Moon by Night, The Wind Cannot Read and Innocent Sinners...
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Kenneth More (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
the film's success was attributed to More's appeal. More received an offer from David Lean to play the lead role in an adaptation of The Wind Cannot Read...
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John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (category 1942 establishments in the United Kingdom)
The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author...
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Betty Box (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
(1957) True as a Turtle (1957) (uncredited) The Wind Cannot Read (1958) A Tale of Two Cities (1958) The 39 Steps (1959) Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)...
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Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios) from 1935—following a merger between the Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures—to 1999. 20th Century...
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Michael Medwin (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
(1957) as Dr. Charles Bingham The Steel Bayonet (1957) as Lt. Vernon The Duke Wore Jeans (1958) as Cooper The Wind Cannot Read (1958) Officer Lamb I Only...
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John Fraser (actor) (category Deaths from esophageal cancer in the United Kingdom)
He is best known for his performances in the films The Dam Busters (1955), The Good Companions (1957), The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960), El Cid (1961)...
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Richard Leech (category Irish expatriates in the United Kingdom)
Night of the Demon (1957) as Inspector Mottram Gideon's Day (1958) as Minor Role The Moonraker (1958) as Henry Strangeways The Wind Cannot Read (1958) as...
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Commissioner Belhedron The Mark of the Hawk (1957) .... Sandar Lai The Camp on Blood Island (1958) .... Capt. Sakamura The Wind Cannot Read (1958) .... Bahadur...
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(1958), The Wind Cannot Read (1958), The Servant (1963) and Accident (1967). Dirk Bogarde credits Dawson with the success of the outfits he wore in The Servant...
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Anthony Bushell (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
The Battle of the River Plate (1956) – Mr. Millington Drake – British Minister, Montevideo Bitter Victory (1957) – General Paterson The Wind Cannot Read...
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Roxy Theatre (New York City) (category 1920s architecture in the United States)
Wyler, The Blackburn Twins, Jerry Collins, and The Roxy Orchestra. The Roxy closed on March 29, 1960. The final movie was The Wind Cannot Read, a British...
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attendances. (Four films it were making at the time were A Night to Remember, Nor the Moon by Night, The Wind Cannot Read and Innocent Sinners which cost £1.1...
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Operation Amsterdam (category Films set in the Netherlands)
Bismarck!, Northwest Frontier, Ferry to Hong Kong, The Wind Cannot Read and The Captain's Table. The New York Times said "a surprisingly lukewarm drama...
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(1957) Campbell's Kingdom (1957) The Wind Cannot Read (1958) The Captain's Table (1959) North West Frontier (1959) I Aim at the Stars (1960) Mysterious Island...
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The first Occidental film made in the USSR. Some details of this film appear "here". 24 September 2008.. Regarding the storyline, BG Movies reads "Съветската...
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List of war films and TV specials set between 1914 and 1945 (redirect from List of war films and TV specials set in The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century (1914-1999))
Objective Burma (1945) The Hasty Heart (1949) Francis (1950) The Purple Plain (1954) The Burmese Harp (1956) The Wind Cannot Read (1958) Yesterday's Enemy...
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