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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
      Published 4 January 2011
      ISBN-13 9780719063558
      978-0719063558
      ISBN-10 0719063558

      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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