This is the first sustained and comprehensive critical study of
Anthony Asquith. Ryall sets the director's work in the context of
British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, and examines
the artistic and cultural influences within which his films can be
understood. Asquith's silent films were compared favourably to
those of his eminent contemporary Alfred Hitchcock, but his career
faltered during the 1930s. However, the success of Pygmalion (1938)
and French Without Tears (1939), based on plays by George Bernard
Shaw and Terence Rattigan, together with his significant
contributions to wartime British cinema, re-established him as one
of Britain's leading film makers. Asquith's post-war career
includes several pictures in collaboration with Rattigan, and the
definitive adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being
Earnest (1951), but his versatility is demonstrated effectively in
a number of modest genre films including The Woman in Question
(1950), The Young Lovers (1954) and Orders to Kill (1958).
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