Simply: Fright. Part III
Author: jone Date: 14 November, Category: Appealing, Visits 3686
Ernie Lotinga, looking terrified as a gun is pointed in his face, in a scene from the play [My Wifes Family], at the Garrick Theatre, London. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). 24th February 1941
Actress Florrie Groves in a scene from the play, [The Strangler]. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). 25th May 1927
Edna May Oliver and Robert Armstrong, in a scene from the film [The Penguin Pool Mystery] (aka [Penguin Pool Murder]), directed by George Archainbaud for RKO. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images). 1932
Comedian Arthur Lucan, as Mother Riley, rehearsing the parachute drop scene from the film [Old Mother Riley in Paris] at Gatwick Airport. The skirt of his costume is blown out by the air from the aeroplanes propeller. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 16th June 1938
Member Shirley Hirst screams in terror at one stage during a meeting of the Ghost Club. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images). 1952
Not all police dogs are thoroughbreds, this mongrel is adept at catching wrongdoers as this tree climbing felon is finding out. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). February 1928
Actor D A Clarke Smith strangling his wife, played by Angela Baddeley, in a scene from the play [To Account Rendered] at the New Theatre. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). 21st January 1931
Ronald Bone and Sally Hennegan make a daring double jump into the Holborn [Oasis], an outdoor swimming pool in London. (Photo by L. Blandford/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 31st August 1954
The Aetna Casualty and Insurance Company are sponsoring the use of driving simulation machines at driving schools in a bid to lower the amount of road accidents connected with learner drivers. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955
A competitor at the rodeo, held in the Roman amphitheatre of Arles, in the Camargue region of southern France, attempts to elude a charging bull by climbing over the perimeter fence. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955
A student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), a leading British drama school in Gower Street, London, affects a look of horror. (Photo by Felix Man/Picture Post/Getty Images). 29th October 1938
Shock horror as shown by an actress in a scene from Sweeney Todd. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images). 1954
The British actress Valerie Hobson in a Tiger Moth aeroplane during a flying lesson. (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 13th December 1947
New York film and stage actor Chester Morris (1901–1970), in an atmospheric scene from the Paramount film [Woman Trap]. (Photo by Margaret Chute/Getty Images). Circa 1950
British film actor Dirk Bogarde (1921–1999) frightening child actor Jon Whiteley with a live lobster on the set of the film, [Hunted]. (Photo by Grace Robertson/Picture Post/Getty Images). 17th November 1952
A man in a grotesque mask gives a young woman a fright in an effort to cure her hiccups. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955
British actor David Farrar, playing a dipsomaniac scientist in a scene from the Powell and Pressburger film [The Small Back Room], fights off a huge whisky bottle as pictures behind him burst into flames. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images). 24th July 1948
British actress Betty Stockfield (1905–1966) looking anxious. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). 9th December 1932
British actor Alec Guinness (1914–2000) playing the part of Fagin, seizes one of the paupers by the scruff of his neck in a scene from David Leans film version of [Oliver Twist]. (Photo by Charles Trigg/Picture Post/Getty Images). 1948
Paul Muni (1896–1967) as Tony Camonte and Ann Dvorak (1912–1979) as his sister Cesca Camonte in [Scarface], a film a clef based on the life of mob boss Al Capone. Alternatively titled [Scarface: The Shame of a Nation], the film was directed by Howard Hawks for United Artists. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1932
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