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Lance Comfort (Paperback)
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Lance Comfort (Paperback)
Series: British Film-Makers
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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) and 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 as a murderess, and
Temptation Harbour (1947) starring Robert Newton as a decent man in
the grip of erotic attraction. Comfort's career has never been
charted in full - that is, from the apprenticeship in the 1930s,
through the melodramas of the 1940s to the often rewarding
co-features of the following two decades. His is in many ways a
prototypical career in British cinema: his very attractive body of
work has been marginalised by critical focus on a few giant
figures. But giant figures alone do not make an industry. This is a
book that will appeal to all students and researchers in British
cinema, as well as to anyone with an interest in British films -
and why they were the way they were - in their most productive
period.
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