Lance Comfort,9780719054846

Lance Comfort

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ISBN13: 9780719054846
ISBN10: 0719054842
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2013-09-30
Publisher(s): Manchester University Press
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Summary

Who is Lance Comfort? The short answer is that he is the most unjustly neglected director in British film history. McFarlane's lively, thoroughly researched study aims to correct this situation. In the years between 1941 and 1965 he made some of the most entertaining films in Britain. There was the striking success of his second feature as director, Hatter's Castle (1941). When he returned to this melodramatic vein in 1945 he made a series of highly proficient and enjoyable studies in obsession, including Bedelia (1946) with Margaret Lockwood, and Temptation Harbour (1947) starring Robert Newton. Before this book, Comfort's career has never been charted in full.

Author Biography

Brian McFarlane is Associate Professor in the English Department of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Plates
viii
Series Editors' Foreword x
Acknowledgements xii
A place in the field
1(12)
A long apprenticeship
13(11)
Breakthrough: Hatter's Castle
24(13)
`The busiest British film director'
37(29)
Dark achievement: six melodramas
66(46)
Interlude: where to, now?
112(6)
The double-bill: filming in the 1950s and 60s
118(48)
Conclusion
166(5)
Filmography 171(46)
Select Bibliography 217(2)
Index 219

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