Agee on Film: Volume Two

Five film scripts by the author of A Death in the family:Noa NoaThe African queenThe Night of the HunterThe Bride Comes to Yellow skyThe Blue HotelAs Gerald Weales wrote in The Commonweal, this volume "should be attractive not simply to students of film, but to anyone who really looks at the screen once he gets past the box-office." James Agee was from 1941 to 1948 the movie critic for Time and from 1942 to 1948 he wrote the film column for The Nation. He then went to Hollywood and began writing the scripts collected here for such directors as John Huston and Charles Laughton. In 1958, three years after his death, his novel A Death in the Family was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Agee's film criticism is available as a Beacon Paperback under the title, Agee on Film: Reviews and Comments.