Filmography
The following is a list of feature film, documentary, television feature, and short film commissions composed by Frankel between 1394 and 1970. Principal cast of note and additional information are indicated where possible.
Feature Films
1934
“Radio Parade of 1935” (GB): Will Hay - buy on DVD with two other Will Hay titles
1935
“Music Hath Charms” (as arranger) (GB): Henry Hall and his Band
1936
“Public Nuisance Number One” (GB)
“Love in Exile” (GB)
1937
“The Singing Cop” (GB)
“No Monkey Business” (GB)
1943
“He Found a Star” (GB): Vic Oliver; Sarah Churchill
“They Met in the Dark” (GB): James Mason - buy the DVD
1944
“Fiddlers Three” (as arranger) (GB) ‘V’
“I’ll Be Your Sweetheart” (as arranger) (GB) ‘V’
“Flight from Folly” (GB)
1945
“The Seventh Veil” (GB): James Mason; Ann Todd; Herbert Lom - buy the DVD
“Progress Parade” (GB)
1946
“Daybreak” (GB): Eric Portman
“The Years Between” (GB): Michael Redgrave; Valerie Hobson - buy the DVD
“A Girl in a Million” (GB): Joan Greenwood
1947
“Dancing with Crime” (GB): Richard Attenbourough
“Dear Murderer” (GB): Eric Portman
“Night Beat” (GB)
1948
“Portrait from Life” (aka “The Girl in the Painting”) (GB): Herbert Lom; Mai Zetterling
“London Belongs to Me” (aka “Dulcimer Street”) (GB): Richard Attenborough; Alistair Sim - buy the DVD
“Mine Own Executioner” (GB): Burgess Meredith
“Bond Street” (GB)
“Sleeping Car to Trieste” (GB): Jean Kent; Albert Lieven
1949
“The Chiltern Hundreds” (aka “The Amazing Mr Beecham”) (GB): Cecil Parker; David Tomlinson
“Give Us This Day” (aka “Christ in Concrete”) (GB): Sam Wanamaker - buy the DVD
“Trottie True” (aka “The Gay Lady”) (GB): Jean Kent; James Donald
1950
“The Clouded Yellow” (GB): Jean Simmons; Trevor Howard - buy the DVD
“Double Confession” (GB): Peter Lorre
“So Long at the Fair” (GB): Dirk Bogarde; Jean Simmons - buy the DVD
“Night and the City” (GB): Richard Widmark; Gene Tierney (US print scored by Franz Waxman)
1951
“Hotel Sahara” (GB): Peter Ustinov; Yvonne de Carlo - buy the DVD
“The Long Dark Hall” (GB) Rex Harrison; Lili Palmer
“Appointment with Venus” (aka “Island Rescue”) (GB): David Niven; Glynis Johns; Kenneth More - buy the DVD
“Mr Denning Drives North” (GB): John Mills; Phyllis Calvert
“The Man in the White Suit” (GB): Alec Guiness; Joan Greenwood - buy the DVD
1952
“The Importance of Being Earnest” (GB): Michael Redgrave; John Dennison; Joan Greenwood; Edith Evans; Dorothy Tutin etc.
buy the DVD
“The Man who Watched Trains Go By” (aka “Paris Express”) (GB): Claude Rains, Marius Goring; Herbert Lom - buy the DVD
1953
“The Love Lottery” (GB): David Niven; Herbert Lom; cameo by Humphrey Bogart
“The Final Test” (GB): Jack Warner; Robert Morley - buy the DVD
“The Net” (aka “Project M7”): James Donald; Phyllis Calvert; Herbert Lom
1954
“Aunt Clara” (GB): Margaret Rutherford
“Malaga” (aka “Fire Over Africa”) (GB/US): Maureen O’Hara
“Mad About Men” (GB): Glynis Johns - buy the DVD
“Up to His Neck” (GB): Brian Forbes
“The End of the Affair” (GB/US): Van Johnson; Deborah Kerr - buy the DVD
“Always a Bride” (GB)
“The Man who Loved Redheads” (GB): John Justin; Moira Shearer
“The Young Lovers” (GB)
1955
“A Kid for Two Farthings” (GB): Celia Johnson; David Kossoff - buy the DVD
“Lost” (aka “Tears for Simon”) (GB): David Farrar
“Simon and Laura” (GB): Peter Finch; Kay Kendall - buy the DVD
“Footsteps in the Fog” (GB): Stewart Granger; Jean Simmons - buy the DVD
“The Prisoner” (GB): Alec Guiness; Jack Hawkins - buy the DVD
“On Such a Night” (GB) (music consultant): David Knight
“Storm Over the Nile” (GB): Anthony Steel; Laurence Harvey
1956
“The Iron Petticoat” (GB): Bob Hope; Katherine Hepburn - buy the DVD
“Brothers-in-Law” (GB): Ian Carmichael; Richard Attenborough - buy the DVD
1957
“Happy is the Bride” (GB) Ian Carmichael; Terry Thomas
1958
“Orders to Kill” (GB): Paul Massie; Eddie Albert
“I Only Arsked” (GB): Bernard Bresslaw
buy the DVD
1959
“Summer of the 17th Doll” (aka “Season of Passion”)(GB/AUS): John Mills; Ann Baxter; Ernest Borgnine
“Libel” (British MGM): Dirk Bogarde; Olivia de Havilland
1960
“Surprise Package” (GB): Yul Brinner; Noel Coward
“Curse of the Werewolf” (GB): Clifford Evans; Oliver Reed - buy the DVD
1962
“Guns of Darkness” (GB): David Niven; Leslie Caron
1963
“The Old Dark House” (GB): Robert Morley
1964
“Night of the Iguana” (US): Richard Burton; Ava Gardner; Deborah Kerr - buy the DVD
1965
“Battle of the Bulge” (US): Henry Fonda; Robert Shaw; Robert Ryan; Dana Andrews; Charles Bronson; Telly Savalas; James McArthur; Hans Christian Blech; Werner Peters; Pier Angeli; (nominated for a Golden Globe Award 1966 - Best Score category)
buy the DVD
Secondary Features (documentaries, all British)
1944
“The ‘Gen’” (RAF Film Unit)
“The Great Circle” (Shell Film Unit)
Production: Edgar Anstey. Direction: J. B. Napier Bell. (July, 1944.)
“Bon Voyage” (M.O.I. propaganda film; directed by Alfred Hitchcock) - buy on DVD with “Aventure Malgache” below
“Aventure Malgache” (M.O.I. propaganda film; directed by Alfred Hitchcock) - buy on DVD with “Bon Voyage” above
1945
“The Fire of London” (M.O.I.) - buy on DVD (contains three titles)
“Twilight of the Gods” (M.O.I.)
“The New Teacher” (Crown Film Unit)
“Macbeth” (British Council)
Production: Sydney Box, for the British Council.
Direction : Henry Cass [An excerpt from the play by Shakespeare]
“Julius Caesar” (British Council)
Production: Sydney Box, for the British Council.
Direction: Henry Cass [An excerpt from the play by Shakespeare]
“This Was Japan” (Crown). Production and direction: Basil Wright (September, 1945)
“The Broad Fourteens” (Crown Film Unit)
Production: J. B. Holnies. Direction: Richard McNaughton. (August, 1945)
1946
“Machines and Men” (British Movietone News)
“English Criminal Justice” (Greenpark)
Production : Henry Cass, for the British Council.
Direction : Kenneth Annakin. Photography: Raymond Elton. Script: R. F. Delderfield, Kenneth Annakin. Commentary: Harold Warrender. (1946)
1947
“Globe Trotters” (Verity Films)
1948
“Irish Symphony” (Verity Films)
“Call Up” (Verity Films)
1950
“Moving House” (British Transport Films)
Television Features
1963
“Espionage” (ABC/NBC - GB/US) - 8 episodes: - buy the complete set (24 episodes) on DVD
“Castles in Spain”
“The Frantick Rebel”
“A Free Agent””
“The Liberators”
“Once a Spy”
“Snow on Mount Kama”
“Some Other Kind of World”
“We the Hunted”
1965
“The Siege of Manchester” (BBC TV - “Theatre 625″)
1967
“The Incantation of Casanova” (BBC TV - “Theatre 625″)
“Edmund Gurney and the Brighton Mesmerist” (BBC TV - “Theatre 625″)
1970
“The Suicide Club” (from “Mystery and Imagination” - Thames TV) - buy on DVD
Industrial Cartoon Features
1953
“The Moving Spirit” (Halas and Bachelor)
1954
“The Power to Fly” (Halas and Bechelor)
1955
“The World that Nature Forgot” (Halas and Bachelor)
Commercial/industrial Short Films
1954
“The Electric Cooker” (British Electrical Development Assoc.)
1955
“Surf” (Lintas)
Newsreels and Documentaries
Mid-1960’s (date to be confirmed)
“Sulkies and Silks” (presumed to be about harness racing)