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Compton Bennett

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Herbert William Compton Bennett (15 January 1900 – 11 August 1974), better known as Compton Bennett, was an English film director, writer and producer. He is perhaps best known for directing the 1945 film The Seventh Veil and the 1950 version of the film King Solomon's Mines, an adaptation of an Allan Quatermain story.

Bennett was born in Tunbridge Wells, England. At the beginning of his career, he worked as a band leader and a commercial artist before trying his hand at amateur filmmaking. One of these early films helped him land a job at Alexander Korda's London Films in 1932. There, he became a film editor; later he would help make instructional and propaganda films for the British armed forces during World War II.

Bennett's films tended to be sombre, but were very popular with the moviegoing public. In 1946, Bennett accepted an invitation to go to Hollywood for Universal.

It was, however, during this time that he directed King Solomon's Mines. He was replaced during filming by Andrew Marton.

Bennett eventually returned to the UK. From 1954 to 1957, he left film work to pursue interests in the theatre and television, but produced four films in 1957, After the Ball, Man-Eater, That Woman Opposite and The Flying Scot. Although he continued to write and direct for film and television, his subsequent productions were not as well received.

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Director de cine británico nacido en Turnbridge Wells (Kent). Tras iniciar su carrera en el teatro, se dedicó en exclusiva al cine, donde junto a labores de montador y ayudante de dirección en los populares y prestigiosos estudios Ealing, se inició en la realización de cortometrajes, entre los que destaca Men of Rochdale, dedicado al mundo de la minería del carbón. Debutó con la notable El séptimo velo (1945) con guión de la ganadora del Oscar, Muriel Box. Esta producción británica cuenta la caída en la neurosis de un pianista magistralmente interpretado por James Mason. My own true love (1949), supuso su primera película americana de la mano del productor Val Lewton. La adaptación de la famosa novela de John Galsworthy, La dinastía de los Forsyte (1949), su siguiente trabajo, contó con una de las mejores interpretaciones de Errol Flynn, al que acompañan en el reparto Greer Garson y Janet Leigh. Su película más famosa y galardonada fue Las minas del rey Salomón (1950), codirigida con Andrew Marton; se trata de la mejor adaptación de la primera novela de H. Rider Haggard, interpretada por Stewart Granger y Deborah Kerr. Tras un difícil rodaje en África, consiguió tres nominaciones a los premios de la Academia, de los que logró el de mejor montaje y el de mejor fotografía para el espectacular trabajo de Robert Surtees.

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