Film Scripts One: Henry V, The Big Sleep, A Streetcar Named Desire (Applause Books) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480342033 ISBN 13: 9781480342033

Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

The Film Scripts Series is a new printing of some of the greatest screenplays ever written. Each of the four volumes in the series a edited by George P. Garrett O. B. Hardison Jr. and Jane R. Gelfman a contains three classic shooting scripts written by some of the finest writers to ever work in Hollywood. Every volume also features a highly informative introduction a glossary of technical terms an extensive bibliography and the credits for each film. These enduring screenplays will be of great interest to the general film buff the aspiring screenwriter and the professional filmmaker. Of particular value to the screenwriter and filmmaker is the fact that all scripts are printed in standard screenplay format.THTHEFilm Scripts OneE features:THTH+/-EHenry VE+/- (1946 United Artists reissue 2007 Park Circus-UK): Script by Laurence Olivier and Reginald Beck; Directed and produced by Laurence Olivier; Academy Award for Laurence Olivier (honorary award for his outstanding achievement as actor producer and director); Academy Award nominations for best picture best actor (Laurence Olivier) best art direction and best score.THTH+/-EThe Big SleepE+/- (1946 Warner Bros. Pictures): Script by William Faulkner Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman based on the novel by Raymond Chandler; Directed by Howard Hawks; Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.THTH+/-EA Streetcar Named DesireE+/- (1951 Warner Bros. Pictures): Script by Tennessee Williams adaptation by Oscar Saul; Directed by Elia Kazan; Starring Marlon Brando Kim Hunter Vivien Leigh and Karl Malden; Academy Awards for Vivien Leigh Kim Hunter Karl Malden and best art direction; Academy Award nomination for Marlon Brando.

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About the Author

George Garrett (June 11, 1929 - May 25, 2008) is the author of 34 books. He served as the Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia and has been honored with many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Grant, the T. S. Eliot Award, the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. He worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and taught at Cambridge University and, for many years, at the University of Virginia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1480342033
• ISBN 13: 9781480342033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 552
• Editor: Garrett Jr. George P, Hardison O. B., Gelfman Jane R.