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The Bespoke Overcoat is a 1956 British black and white short film directed by Jack Clayton, based on a 1953 play of the same name by Wolf Mankowitz. The story is an adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's short story The Overcoat with the action moved from Russia to the East End of London.
Jun 2, 2024 · Pacific Resident Theatre. 703 Venice Blvd. Venice. Inspired by Nicolai Gogol's famous short story, Wolf Mankowitz's The Bespoke Overcoat is by turns a deeply comic and unforgettably poignant reimagining of Gogol's most famous classic tale, The Overcoat.
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Mar 29, 2024 · Such is the case in Wolf Mankowitz’s The Bespoke Overcoat, inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s famous short story “The Overcoat“ about a long-suffering, poor warehouse clerk who seeks to obtain a new overcoat. After the play opened in London in 1953, Mankowitz adapted it into a film that won the Oscar for Best Short Subject in 1957.
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Inspired by Nicolai Gogol’s famous short story, Wolf Mankowitz’s The Bespoke Overcoat is by turns a deeply comic and unforgettably poignant reimagining of Gogol’s most famous classic tale, The Overcoat. Reset by Mankowitz into the Jewish East End of London, this story about an old clerk who can’t afford a new overcoat is a tale of love ...
Editorial Staff. Off-West End. 15 June 2010. A tidy morality tale focusing on galloping commercialism and its disruption of old world ethics and values, The Bespoke Overcoat is one of Wolf Mankowitz’s best-known plays, having won an Academy Award in 1956 for best short subject.
Pacific Resident Theatre's production of Academy Award Winning Wolf Mankowitz' play THE BESPOKE OVERCOAT (also an Academy Award Winning Short) is truly a successful experiment, testing the timelessness of striking work from a different era (early 1950's), and different nation (UK), all to learn whether or not Mankowitz' powerful message still ...
