Description
Book SynopsisA personal and fascinating account of the career and achievement of an important, much-loved director; Jack Clayton.
Table of ContentsList of plates
Series Editor's foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: lonely passions – the cinema of Jack Clayton
2. Early career: Naples is a Battlefield (1944); The Bespoke Overcoat (1955)
3. Sex, realism and Yorkshire pudding: Room at the Top (1959)
4. Pearl of ambiguity: The Innocents (1961)
5. Woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown: The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
6. Forbidden games: Our Mother's House (1967)
7. Clayton in America: The Great Gatsby (1974); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
8. God's lonely woman: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
9. Death makes a call: Memento Mori (1992)
10. Unfinished business: the unrealised projects of Jack Clayton
11. Conclusion
Appendices: Some writings of Jack Clayton
Filmography
Select bibliography
Index
