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This book traces the career of one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry over more than sixty years, who directed landmark British films, worked at Twentieth Century Fox and Rank in Hollywood, moved to television series such as 'The Avengers' and re-emerged as a major director of science fiction and horror. -- .

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Really refreshing…treated with perception and intelligence -- .

Table of Contents

List of plates
Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A classical director working in a melodramatic force field
2. 'Realism' - 'Flame in the Streets' and 'A Night to Remember'
3. 'A morbid sensibility': 1947-1961
4. 'Roy Ward Baker': Hammer and Amicus
5. Conclusion: 'The One That Got Away'
Filmography
Select Bibliography
Index

Roy Ward Baker

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    Publisher: Manchester University Press
    Publication Date: 4/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780719063558, 978-0719063558
    ISBN10: 0719063558
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This book traces the career of one of the great survivors of the British film and television industry over more than sixty years, who directed landmark British films, worked at Twentieth Century Fox and Rank in Hollywood, moved to television series such as 'The Avengers' and re-emerged as a major director of science fiction and horror. -- .

    Trade Review
    Really refreshing…treated with perception and intelligence -- .

    Table of Contents

    List of plates
    Series Editors' Foreword
    Acknowledgements
    Introduction: A classical director working in a melodramatic force field
    2. 'Realism' - 'Flame in the Streets' and 'A Night to Remember'
    3. 'A morbid sensibility': 1947-1961
    4. 'Roy Ward Baker': Hammer and Amicus
    5. Conclusion: 'The One That Got Away'
    Filmography
    Select Bibliography
    Index

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