10 Greatest Films of all time - Props

IU Greatest films of all time What makes a film great? The plot? The actors? The PROPS! Think of your favourite movie.. what do you think of? The characters or the props? Spur Creative Workshop specialise in the manufacture of high quality props and sculptures. With a wealth of experience in sculptural props and GRP moulding and casting we are able to produce bespoke items to the highest quality with finishes that are beautifully crisp and clean and our attention to detail has meant continual positive feedback from our clients who include Tate Modern, The National Army Museum, Harrod's, Sky Movies and Dubai Duty Free to name but a few, with some of the most prominent theatre and opera companies in the UK including: Bill Kenwright Ltd, Glyndebourne Opera and The Donmar Warehouse. THE GODFATHER (FILM SERIES) Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). The Godfather Prop: The Gun THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison. However, only Andy knows he didn't commit the crimes. While there, he forms a friendship with Red (Morgan Freeman), experiences brutality of prison life, adapts, helps the warden, etc., all in 19 years. THE SHAWSHANK RE DE MPT O N Prop: The Bible CASABLANCA Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, love and virtue. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her Czech Resistance leader husband escape from the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis. A Warner Brar. -First National PICTURE COP k A s SNC Prop: The Piano SCHINDLERS'S LIST LE SIEES SE SCHINDLIRS IST In Kraków during World War II, the Germans had forced local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German, arrives in the city hoping to make his fortune. A member of the Nazi Party, Schindler lavishes bribes on Wehrmacht (German armed forces) and SS officials and acquires a factory to produce enamelware. To help him run the business, Schindler enlists the aid of Itzhak Stern, a local Jewish official who has contacts with black marketeers and the Jewish business community. WINNER ACADEMY AWARD Prop: The List pages STAR WARS (FILM SERIES) The original trilogy begins with the Galactic Émpire nearing completion of the Death Star space station, which will allow the Empire to crush the Rebel Alliance, an organized resistance formed to combat Emperor Palpatine's tyranny. Palpatine's Sith apprentice Darth Vader captures Princess Leia, a member of the rebellion who has stolen the plans to the Death Star and hidden them in the astromech droid R2-D2. R2, along with his protocol droid counterpart C-3PO, escapes to the desert planet Tatooine. There, the droids are purchased by farm boy Luke Skywalker and his step-uncle and aunt and from there the story begins. STAR WARS Props: The Stormtrooper GONE WITH THE WIND Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American historical epic film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel of the same name. It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard. Set in the 19th-century American South, the film stars Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, and Hattie McDaniel, among others, and tells a story of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era from a white Southern point of view. The film received ten Academy Awards (eight competitive, two honorary), a record that stood for 20 years until Ben-Hur surpassed it in 1960. GONE WITH theWIND Prop: The Green Curtain Dress by MARGARET MITCHELL IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE In Bedford Falls, New York, on Christmas Eve 1945, George Bailey is suicidal. Prayers for him reach Heaven. Clarence Odbody, Angel 2nd Class, is assigned to save George. To prepare Clarence, his superior Joseph shows flashbacks of George's life. At age 12, George saves his younger brother Harry, who fell through the ice on a pond, costing George the hearing in one ear. Later, he catches a potentially deadly mistake made by his boss, distracted by the news of the sudden death of his son. George waits for Harry to graduate from high school and replace him at the family business, the Bailey Brothers' Building and Loan, a longtime irritant to Henry F. Potter, the richest man in JAMES STEWART DONNA RID IT'S A ONDERFUL LIFE town. THE WIZARD OF OZ The film starts in sepia toned Kansas in the early 1900s. Dorothy Gale lives with her dog Toto on the farm of her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Dorothy and Toto get in trouble with a ruthless neighbor, Miss Almira Gulch, when Toto bites her. However, Dorothy's family and the farmhands are all too busy to pay attention to her. Miss Gulch arrives with permission from the sheriff to have Toto euthanized. He is taken away, but escapes and returns to Dorothy; she then decides to run away from home with Toto to escape Miss Gulch. 70" The UIZARD Prop: The Ruby Slippers KING KONG King Kong is a Pre-Code 1933 monster/adventure film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. The screenplay was by Ruth Rose and James Ashmore Creelman from a story by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. It stars Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot and Robert Armstrong, and opened in New York City on March 2, 1933 to rave reviews. The film tells of a gigantic island- dwelling ape creature called Kong who dies in an attempt to possess a beautiful young woman. Kong is distinguished for its stop-motion animation by Willis O'Brien and its musical score by Max Steiner. The film has been released to video, DVD, and Blu-ray, and has been computer colorized. In 1991, the film was deemed "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. It has been remade twice: once in 1976 and again in 2005. KING KONG FAY WRAY ROBERT ARMSTRONG BRUC" ne production de COOPER et SCH DALOSIETUAs eFAUL BRACH aEDGAR WALLACE & Prop: King Kong FANTASIA The ultimate in st and sound Now rerecorded in hew digtal seca Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt Disney Productions. With story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer, and production supervision by Ben Sharpsteen, it is the third feature in the Disney animated features canon. The film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski; seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Music critic and composer Deems Taylor acts as the film's Master of Ceremonies, who introduces each segment in live action interstitial scenes. Disney settled on the film's concept as work neared completion on The Sorcerer's Apprentice, an elaborate Silly Symphonies short designed as a comeback role for Mickey Mouse who had declined in popularity. As production costs grew higher than what it could earn, he decided to include the short in a feature-length film with other segments set to classical pieces. The soundtrack was recorded using multiple audio channels and reproduced with Fantasound, a pioneering sound reproduction system that made Fantasia the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound. Quer Dinep's FANTAŠIA Prop: Mickey P pinterest.com/spurcreative1 O+ google.com/+SpurcreativeCoUk instagram.com/spurcreativeworkshop/ twitter.com/spur_creative [email protected] Designed By: www.spurcreative.co.uk 01892 890608