Takes the reader through the British locations used in films like "Reds" and "The Thief of Bagdad". It tells the stories behind the films of Powell and Pressburger, Ealing and the Beatles, and provides insights into the West Country of "Far From the Madding Crowd" and the Scotland of "Rob Roy".
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This educational and well-researched overview of film locations in the British Isles is presented with exceptional style. Award-winning journalist Pendreigh (cinema editor for the Scotsman) focuses each chapter upon a specific locale?London, southeast England, Scotland, Dublin, Wales, etc.?and includes a representative list of films shot in each region. (The list is often surprising. For example, the 1989 hit Batman, presumably the tale of a futuristic New York gone bad, was actually shot in southeast England.) Individual film entries contain descriptive information on plot, characters, actors, staff, background details, and physical surroundings. Pendreigh's perceptive critical commentaries and charming "insider" anecdotes are both literate and smoothly integrated into the text. Beautiful black-and-white photographs, a carefully prepared index, and a useful popular bibliography complement the work. Circulating libraries with a special interest in cinema will find this extremely appealing.?Carol J. Binkowski, Bloomfield, N.J.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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