Four More Screenplays by Preston Sturges
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Includes The Palm Beach Story , Triumph over Pain/The Great Moment , The Miracle at Morgan's Creek , and Unfaithfully Yours . Humorous, sophisticated, and superbly crafted, the cinema of Preston... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520203658
ISBN13:9780520203655
Release Date:January 1995
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:983 Pages
Weight:2.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
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Preston Sturges' Screenplays
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This book is a wonderful compilation of Preston Sturges' screenplays. It's very good for all who love the great director.
Three Fine Comedies and One Odd Misfire
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This volume contains some of Sturges' best work, including the immortal comedy The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, together with The Palm Beach Story and Unfaithfully Yours. Five stars for The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, perhaps the funniest, most subversive movie of the 1940's. The biggest curiosity here, though, is Sturges' script for his odd dental-anesthesia biopic The Great Moment. This film was heavily altered by the studio prior to its release. Sturges' original script would probably have been a better picture, but it's hard to imagine this project succeeding in any case.
Great comedy films
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Contains the screenplay for "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" (to my taste, the most hilarious film of all time). When I worked as a cataloger at Newport Public Library, I constantly told my co-workers that I thought Preston Sturges wrote better dialogue than Shakespeare. I could prune lines from "Hamlet," but I couldn't cut a single line from "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek."
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