This is a wonderful secret history of British movies that includes the scandals, the suicides, the immolations and the contract killings - the product of thousands of conversations with veteran film-makers. Here you'll meet, among many others, the 20s film idols snorting cocaine from an illuminated glass dance floor on the bank of the Thames, the model who escaped Soho's gangsters to become the queen of the nudie flicks and the genteel Scottish comedienne who, at the age of fifty-five, reinvented herself as a star of exploitation cinema, and fondly remembers 'the one where I drilled in people's heads and ate their brains'. Welcome to the lost worlds of British cinema.
| ISBN: | 9780571212989 |
| Publication date: | 16th February 2006 |
| Author: | Matthew Sweet |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 388 pages |
| Genres: |
Films, cinema |
This is a wonderful secret history of British movies that includes the scandals, the suicides, the immolations and the contract killings - the product of thousands of conversations with veteran film-makers. Here you'll meet, among many others, the 20s film idols snorting cocaine from an illuminated glass dance floor on the bank of the Thames, the model who escaped Soho's gangsters to become the queen of the nudie flicks and the genteel Scottish comedienne who, at the age of fifty-five, reinvented herself as a star of exploitation cinema, and fondly remembers 'the one where I drilled in people's heads and ate their brains'. Welcome to the lost worlds of British cinema.
Shepperton Babylon features in the following genres: Films, cinema
Shepperton Babylon is available in Paperback
Shepperton Babylon was written by Matthew Sweet and published by Faber & Faber
Shepperton Babylon has 388 pages
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