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Asquith's film continued in this vein and, as James Chapman has observed, the ‘new realism in the representation of naval officers and men evident in In Which We Serve was consolidated by We Dive at Dawn’. 27 John Mills had played a working-class naval rating in the Lean/ Coward film; for Asquith's film he played Lieutenant Taylor, senior officer on the Sea Tiger, but in a relatively ...
This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith. Ryall sets the director's work in the context of British cinema from the silent period t...
Other articles where Anthony Asquith is discussed: history of film: Great Britain: …1946; Oliver Twist, 1948), and Anthony Asquith (The Importance of Being Earnest, 1952). Even less-conventional films had literary sources (Carol Reed’s Outcast of the Islands, 1951; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes, 1948, and The Tales of Hoffman, 1951). There were exceptions to this ...
Pygmalion is the greatest of Shaw's social satires and a superlative comedy of manners, but Anthony Asquith's film adaptation gives it substance and character that no stage production could ever match. Harry Stradling's slick and inventive photography vividly evokes the bygone era in which the film is set and is particularly effective in the ...
3 giu 2013 · For decades, Anthony Asquith’s Underground (1928) was known as one of Britain’s greatest silent films but barely seen. A story of love and betrayal set around “the Tube”, it was restored by the British Film Institute’s National Archive and re-released this January to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first Metropolitan Railway station opening at Baker Street.
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24 ago 2019 · Michael Heathley (James Donald) has idealistic hopes for his experimental plane, the M-7, in Anthony Asquith’s The Net. Before I saw his first feature films from the late 1920s, I had formed an impression of Anthony Asquith’s work from his well-appointed adaptations of British theatre: George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1938, co-directed with Leslie Howard who plays Henry Higgins), Terence ...
