This collection brings together three of Cowards most important screenplays ndash; In Which We Serve (1942); Brief Encounter (1945) and The Astonished Heart (1950). The collection features the shooting scripts for each film alongside contextual notes for each play; and a general introduction; by Barry Day. In Which We Serve earned Coward an Academy Honorary Award in 1943 as well as the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film. The film remains a classic of wartime British cinema. Brief Encounter; the most famous screenplay in this collection; is based on Cowards 1936 one-act play Still Life. It remains one of the greatest love stories of all time; coming second in a British Film Institute poll of the top 100 British films. The Astonished Heart tells the story of a psychiatrists growing obsession for a good-time girl and the resulting tragedy this leads to. This collection features a foreword by Laurence Kardish; Senior Curator Emeritus; Film; at New Yorks MoMA; and an eight-page black and white plate section of production stills.
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