Five Screenplays By Preston Sturges

Here are five comic masterpieces by Preston Struges, who has been called "Hollywood's greatest writer-director, with emphasis on the former." The scripts are drawn from the great period between 1939 and 1944, which Andrew Sarris called "one of the most brilliant and most bizarre bursts of creation in the history of cinema." They are astonishingly readable and deliciously funny. Brian Henderson's introduction provides an overview of Sturges criticism and brief biographical material. Each script is preceded by a prefatory essay discussing its evolution. The insights provided by this volume will be useful to film students and aspiring screenwriters, and fascinating to anyone interested in screen comedy. Virtually all the illustrations, showing Sturges at work, are published here for the first time. The collection includesThe Great McGinty, Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels,andHail the Conquering Hero.Sturges, Preston is the author of 'Five Screenplays By Preston Sturges' with ISBN 9780520054424 and ISBN 0520054423.