Charles Crichton
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'Veteran critic Quentin Falk runs vigorously through the Ealing icon’s career half-decade by half-decade.'
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Total Film
'Falk bases his study on academic accounts, memoirs, autobiographies, private correspondence with the Crichton family, copious use of reviews and the range of interviews with industry personnel one might expect from a former editor of Screen International, including Falk’s own 1987 interview with Crichton for the Guardian... An authoritative and perceptive account.'
The Journal of British Cinema and Television
Charles Crichton is perhaps best remembered as the director of the unlikely blockbuster hit A Fish Called Wanda, made when he was seventy-seven years old. But the most significant part of his career was spent at Ealing Studios in the 1940s and 1950s, working on such beloved comedies as Hue and Cry, The Lavender Hill Mob and The Titfield Thunderbolt. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Manchester University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9781526149954
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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'Veteran critic Quentin Falk runs vigorously through the Ealing icon’s career half-decade by half-decade.'
» .
Total Film
'Falk bases his study on academic accounts, memoirs, autobiographies, private correspondence with the Crichton family, copious use of reviews and the range of interviews with industry personnel one might expect from a former editor of Screen International, including Falk’s own 1987 interview with Crichton for the Guardian... An authoritative and perceptive account.'
The Journal of British Cinema and Television