Noël Coward Screenplays

This collection brings together three of Coward's most important screenplays -<i> In Which We Serve</i> (1942) <i>Brief Encounter</i> (1945) and <i>The Astonished Heart</i> (1950). The collection features the shooting scripts for each film alongside contextual notes for each play and a general introduction by Barry Day. <br/><i><br/>In Which We Serve</i> earned Coward an Academy Honorary Award in 1943 as well as the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film. The film remains a classic of wartime British cinema. <br/><br/><i>Brief Encounter</i> the most famous screenplay in this collection is based on Coward's 1936 one-act play <i>Still Life</i>. It remains one of the greatest love stories of all time coming second in a British Film Institute poll of the top 100 British films. <br/><br/><i>The Astonished Heart</i> tells the story of a psychiatrist's growing obsession for a good-time girl and the resulting tragedy this leads to. <br/><br/>This collection features a foreword by Laurence Kardish Senior Curator Emeritus Film at New York's MoMA and an eight-page black and white plate section of production stills.