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The Films Of Dirk Bogarde
200 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1974
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February 11, 2024
From Joseph Losey's introduction:
" ...... Dirk Bogarde is one of those rare people I describe as contributive. His participation in any film at any level could, should and almost always does affect the whole. He has grown steadily in personal and professional stature throughout his career: it is necessary to examine the whole span of his work to understand the extent of his incredible achievement.
"In the second decade of our more than twenty years together Dirk and I have four times again worked together on films which had been made and released - and not a few times we have worked on projects which others eventually made. More than once he has come to my rescue, often at great risk to himself and nearly always at some sacrifice to his material well-being. For a matinee idol to tackle serious and advanced subjects in films which were often labelled uncommercial before they were even begun is not the kind of chance most people in the precarious profession of acting dare contemplate. Dirk contemplated, dared and saw such projects through time and time again: with me and many other directors. The price was high. The personal satisfactions were often not great enough. We both, however, had it the way we wanted it. We knew the consequences and largely took them. Thank God, or each other."
Losey directed Bogarde in some of his most outstanding performances:
"The Sleeping Tiger" (1954)
"The Servant" (1963) *
"King and Country" (1964)
"Modesty Blaise" (1966)
"Accident" (1967)
This 1975 film career study is a first-rate collection of all Bogarde's films from his early ventures often playing delinquent hoodlums to his "Doctor" days and as a Rank Matinee Idol, his partnership with Betty E. Box and Ralph Thomas, his daring role in the Basil Dearden classic "Victim"; his collaboration with other great directors including John Schlesinger ("Darling"*), Jack Clayton ("Our Mother's House"), John Frankenheimer ("The Fixer") and Luchino Visconti ("The Damned" and "Death in Venice").
There's a heck of lot of stuff packed into this 200-page volume. All Dirk's films list cast and credits, a synopsis and capsule reviews by the critics of the day. Special sections devoted to Dirk's beginning in the movies, the fan image, the off-set Bogarde and a summary of him as the creative actor and a picture essay on "the changing face of Bogarde."
HUNDREDS of fabulous photos and film stills.
Bogarde: "I love the camera and it loves me. Well, not very much sometimes. But we're good friends."
* Winner Best Actor Award for these performances in 1963 and 1965 as chosen by the British Film Academy.
Review based on A.S. Barnes & Co. 1975 edition published in conjunction with original British 1974 publication (Literary Services and Production).
" ...... Dirk Bogarde is one of those rare people I describe as contributive. His participation in any film at any level could, should and almost always does affect the whole. He has grown steadily in personal and professional stature throughout his career: it is necessary to examine the whole span of his work to understand the extent of his incredible achievement.
"In the second decade of our more than twenty years together Dirk and I have four times again worked together on films which had been made and released - and not a few times we have worked on projects which others eventually made. More than once he has come to my rescue, often at great risk to himself and nearly always at some sacrifice to his material well-being. For a matinee idol to tackle serious and advanced subjects in films which were often labelled uncommercial before they were even begun is not the kind of chance most people in the precarious profession of acting dare contemplate. Dirk contemplated, dared and saw such projects through time and time again: with me and many other directors. The price was high. The personal satisfactions were often not great enough. We both, however, had it the way we wanted it. We knew the consequences and largely took them. Thank God, or each other."
Losey directed Bogarde in some of his most outstanding performances:
"The Sleeping Tiger" (1954)
"The Servant" (1963) *
"King and Country" (1964)
"Modesty Blaise" (1966)
"Accident" (1967)
This 1975 film career study is a first-rate collection of all Bogarde's films from his early ventures often playing delinquent hoodlums to his "Doctor" days and as a Rank Matinee Idol, his partnership with Betty E. Box and Ralph Thomas, his daring role in the Basil Dearden classic "Victim"; his collaboration with other great directors including John Schlesinger ("Darling"*), Jack Clayton ("Our Mother's House"), John Frankenheimer ("The Fixer") and Luchino Visconti ("The Damned" and "Death in Venice").
There's a heck of lot of stuff packed into this 200-page volume. All Dirk's films list cast and credits, a synopsis and capsule reviews by the critics of the day. Special sections devoted to Dirk's beginning in the movies, the fan image, the off-set Bogarde and a summary of him as the creative actor and a picture essay on "the changing face of Bogarde."
HUNDREDS of fabulous photos and film stills.
Bogarde: "I love the camera and it loves me. Well, not very much sometimes. But we're good friends."
* Winner Best Actor Award for these performances in 1963 and 1965 as chosen by the British Film Academy.
Review based on A.S. Barnes & Co. 1975 edition published in conjunction with original British 1974 publication (Literary Services and Production).
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