Three British Screen Plays

Manvell, Roger edits

Screenplays with a small no. of illustrations for 'Brief Encounter' by Noel Coward, 'Odd Man Out' by F.L. Green and R.C. Sherriff, and 'Scott of the Antarctic' by Walter Meade and Ivor Montagu; foreword by Frank Launder, 'Stars, directors and producers receive an excessive amount of publicity, but screenwriters are seldom mentioned'; introduction by Roger Manvell, 'The fiction film is a comparatively new method of telling stories to a large public.'; or movie history before the auteur theory and a shot at a push away from the documentary movement of the time.

Publisher: Methuen and The British Film Academy. First English edition 1950
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Hugh Whitemore's, English playwright and scriptwriter, copy with his signature. Edgewear, Very good in dustwrapper darkened on the spine and around the perimeter.


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