"Really refreshing...treated with perception and intelligence "
Barry Forshaw, Crime Time 2005 No 43 This book traces the career of
Roy Ward Baker, one of the great survivors of the British film and
television industry. He directed the landmark British film Morning
Departure (1949), worked at Twentieth Century Fox in Hollywood in
the early 1950s where he directed Marilyn Monroe's 'breakthrough'
film (Don't Bother to Knock), and followed this with a succession
of fine films for Rank, culminating in the best version of the
Titanic disaster, A Night to Remember in 1958. Yet within three
years he was unable to secure a job in the British film industry
and he moved to television series such as The Avengers, The Saint
and Minder. Later Baker re-emerged as a major director of
science-fiction (Quatermass and the Pit) and horror films (Asylum).
Geoff Mayer provides an industrial and aesthetic context in which
to understand the interrelationship between a skilled classical
director and the transformation of the British film industry in the
1950s
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