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Book SynopsisBLAKE EDWARDS Blake Edwards: Film Director as Multitalented Auteur is the first critical analysis to focus on the dramatic works of Blake Edwards. Best known for successful comedies such as The Pink Panther series with Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards wrote, produced, and directed serious works in radio, television, film, and theater for seven decades. Although hit films such as Breakfast at Tiffany's and 10' remain popular, many of Edwards's dramas have been forgotten or marginalized.
In this unique book, William Luhr and Peter Lehman draw on original research from numerous set visits and personal interviews with Edwards and many of his creative and business collaborators to explore his dramas, radio and television work, theatrical productions, one-man art shows, and unproduced screenplays. In-depth chapters analyze non-comedic films including Experiment in Terror, Days of Wine and Roses, and The Tamarind Seed, the theatrical f
Table of Contents
List of Figures ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Chapter 1 Introduction: “Call Me Blake.” 1
Chapter 2 The Early Period (1948–1962) 29
Chapter 3 Mister Cory (1957) 64
Chapter 4 Experiment in Terror (1962) 77
Chapter 5 Days of Wine and Roses (1962) 92
Chapter 6 Gunn (1967) and Peter Gunn (1989) 108
Chapter 7 Wild Rovers (1971) 129
Chapter 8 The Carey Treatment (1972) 152
Chapter 9 Julie (1972) 171
Chapter 10 The Tamarind Seed (1974) 194
Chapter 11 Sunset (1988) 210
Chapter 12 The Late Period: Play It Again, Blake 234
Appendix 1: Books on Blake Edwards 261
Appendix 2: The Interviews 263
Index 265
