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- He and Launder worked on They Came by Night (1940), and Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt (1942).
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Launder and Gilliat. Frank Launder (1906 - 1997) and Sidney Gilliat (1908 - 1994) Launder and Gilliat were one of the most productive teams to work in British films. Separately or together they were involved in some of the greatest works of popular cinema made in this country. Their careers followed a typical path: scrabbling around doing bits ...
Jun 10, 2017 · Posted on June 10, 2017 by Sloane Snodgrasse. Biographical, Cinema. Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat were two English film-makers who maintained a steadily consistent presence in the British cinema between the 1930s and the 1970s. Launder and Gilliat’s creative film roles, whether as writers, directors or producers (or as all three ...
Launder first collaborated with Gilliat in 1936 on the film Seven Sinners. After writing a number of screenplays with Gilliat, including The Lady Vanishes (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock , and Night Train to Munich for Carol Reed ; the two men wrote and directed the wartime drama Millions Like Us (1943).
In 1944 Launder and Gilliat launched their own company, Individual Pictures. They began on a high level, working from their own original scripts. Gilliat's The Rake's Progress offered a biting satirical treatment of a profligate charmer (Rex Harrison, ideally cast) washed up on the rocks of the 1930s.
Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat made such a huge contribution to over three decades of British cinema that it's surprising that they should be so neglected in comparison with contemporaries such as David Lean, Michael Powell and the creators of the great Ealing comedies. There are several reasons for this. They were extraordinarily prolific ...
Feb 24, 1997 · In 1945 Launder and Gilliat set up their own production company, Individual Pictures, and the following year produced Gilliat's fine hospital thriller Green for Danger and Launder's I See A...
Gilliat helped write Two Thousand Women (1944) which Launder directed. Without Launder, Gilliat wrote and directed Waterloo Road (1945) with John Mills and Stewart Granger. But normally both men would produce and write the script and take turns directing.
