Jack Clayton

by Neil Sinyard

Book Overview

In Fran ois Truffaut's opinion The Innocents was 'the best English film after Hitchcock goes to America'. Tennessee Williams said of The Great Gatsby: 'a film whose artistry even surpassed the original novel'. The maker of both films was Jack Clayton, one of the finest English directors of the post-war era and perhaps best remembered for the trail-blazing Room at the Top which brought a new sexual frankness and social realism to the British screen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719055059
• ISBN13: 9780719055058
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"