Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 ReviewReally refreshing…treated with perception and intelligence -- .
Table of ContentsList 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
