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Evan Jones (3) (1927–2023)

Auteur de Victory

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12+ oeuvres 157 utilisateurs 7 critiques

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Evan Jones was born in Portland, Jamaica in 1927. He received a BA in English literature from Wadham College, Oxford in 1952. He taught at the George School in Pennsylvania and at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. In 1956, he moved to England and became a full-time writer. His television work afficher plus includes the documentary drama series The Fight Against Slavery. His work as a screenwriter includes Funeral in Berlin, Eva, and Champions. He has also written several books including Tales of the Caribbean, Skylarking, and Stone Haven. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

Œuvres de Evan Jones

Victory (1944) — Screenwriter — 55 exemplaires
Funeral in Berlin [1966 film] (1966) — Screenwriter — 23 exemplaires
Tales of the Caribbean (1985) 18 exemplaires
Réveil dans la terreur (1971) — Writer — 17 exemplaires
King and Country [1964 film] (1964) — Writer — 14 exemplaires
Protector of the Indians (1973) 7 exemplaires

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British agent, Harry Palmer's sent to East Berlin, after they've received word that a highly valuable member of the East's espionage power structure, wants to defect. But only under certain conditions; he wants Harry Palmer to be the one who carries out the plan to help him defect. (fonte: Imdb)
 
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MemorialeSardoShoah | 1 autre critique | Jan 22, 2023 |
During World War One, the British troops are entrenched at Passchendaele, Belgium. Among the volunteers there is a young British soldier, Arthur Hamp, who is the sole survivor of his original company. Hamp spent three years in the trenches and this makes him a veteran. He has never been accused of cowardice but one day he simply decides to leave the war behind him and walk all the way home to Britain. In Calais, France, he is challenged by a Military Police patrol who promptly arrests him for leaving without permission. Hamp’s commanding officers decide to convene a Court Martial and charge him with desertion. If found guilty, Hamp could be shot by a firing squad. Captain Hargreaves is assigned to be Hamp’s defending attorney but he seems skeptical about his chances of acquittal for the deserter. During their first talk, Captain Hargreaves is impressed by his client’s utter sincerity and naivete. He learns that his client volunteered on a dare by his friends back home, spent three … (fonte: imdb)… (plus d'informations)
 
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MemorialeSardoShoah | Nov 19, 2020 |
L'ufficiale di un campo di prigionia nazista (von Sydow) organizza a scopo propagandistico una partita di calcio tra la nazionale tedesca e una squadra di carcerati. (fonte: Mymovies)
 
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MemorialeSardoShoah | Apr 22, 2020 |
Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook, with a screenplay by Evan Jones and directed by Canadian Ted Kotcheff, this is a disturbing, slow-paced meditation on the veneer of civilisation and how barbarity lies buried just below the surface. John Grant (Gary Bond) is a young indentured teacher working in a small town deep in the Australian outback. When the school breaks for Christmas he travels to Bundayabba (the "Yabba") to catch a flight back to Sydney and his girlfriend. He pops into a pub for a quick pint but quickly finds himself sucked into a session, where he loses all his money gambling. Descending into drunkenness with the locals, including the alcoholic Doc Tydon (Donald Pleasance), Grant rapidly descends into degenerate depravity.

"Wake in Fright" is a strange, baffling film directed with an almost documentary eye by Ted Kotcheff. The film works on a deep psychological level, with Kotcheff managing to make absolutely everything look uncomfortable - the heat, the isolation, the locations and the people. There is a tangible feeling that anything might happen and that anything might go wrong at any moment; no doubt assisted by the non-stop boozing that happens throughout. The dialogue is sparse and the hyperbolic macho, mateyness has a feel of menace; indeed much of it has an underlying feel of gay panic (which becomes disturbingly overt at one stage) The vast vistas are astounding and brilliantly captured by cinematographer Brian West, while the music by John Scott adds a dislocating background thrum. The lead actors are very good - Gary Bond cleverly handles John's rapid descent (with some sharp editing helping us get inside his head) while Donald Pleasance is brilliant as the drink-sodden, philosophical doctor. There are points in the film, however, where Pleasance appears to be having too much fun and getting a little too deeply into the spirit of the thing. The rest of the cast have a real authentic feel about them that adds to strange atmosphere of the film.

Although hugely thoughtful and "enjoyable" (if that's the correct word) "Wake in Fright" is a film that is difficult to know exactly what to make of it all on a first viewing. More than one watch appears essential to get into all the nuances of this strange, disturbing film.
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calum-iain | Apr 28, 2019 |

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157
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