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Went the Day Well?
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Paperback. Went the Day Well? is one of the most unusual Ealing Studios pictures, a distinctly unsentimental war film made in the darkest days of WWII. Houston studies why the film avoids the cosy Ealing trademark. This Film Classics 20th anniversary edition comes with a new foreword by Geoff Brown, and a stunning new jacket design by Mark Swan. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 72 pages, 34 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 142 x 6. Weight in Grams: 134. Series: BFI Film Classics. 72 pages, 34 black & white halftones. Went the Day Well? is one of the most unusual Ealing Studios pictures, a distinctly unsentimental war film made in the darkest days of WWII. Houston studies why the film avoids the cosy Ealing trademark. This Film Classics 20th anniversary edition comes with a new foreword by Geoff Brown, and a stunning new jacket design by Mark Swan. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: APFG. Dimension: 189 x 142 x 6. Weight: 134.
Went the Day Well? is one of the most unusual pictures Ealing Studios produced,
a distinctly unsentimental war film made in the darkest days of World War II,
and nothing like the loveable comedies that later became the Ealing trademark.
Its clear-eyed view of the potential for violence lurking just below the surface
in a quiet English village possibly owes something to the Graham Greene story
on which it is based, though, as Penelope Houston shows, there remains a
mystery about the extent to which Greene was actually involved in the scripting.
Or perhaps the direction by the Brazilian ... Read more
Went the Day Well? is one of the most unusual pictures Ealing Studios produced,
a distinctly unsentimental war film made in the darkest days of World War II,
and nothing like the loveable comedies that later became the Ealing trademark.
Its clear-eyed view of the potential for violence lurking just below the surface
in a quiet English village possibly owes something to the Graham Greene story
on which it is based, though, as Penelope Houston shows, there remains a
mystery about the extent to which Greene was actually involved in the scripting.
Or perhaps the direction by the Brazilian ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
72
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844575008
SKU
V9781844575008
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About Na Na
PENELOPE HOUSTON is a British film critic and journal editor. She was one of the founders of the film journal Sequence, edited Sight & Sound, the journal of the BFI, and was a regular contributor to the Monthly Film Bulletin. She has also been a film critic for The Spectator, deputised as critic for The Times, has written for numerous ... Read more
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