Blake Edwards : Film Director as Multitalented Auteur (Paperback)

List of Figures ix

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Chapter 1 Introduction: “Call Me Blake.” 1

Chapter 2 The Early Period (1948–1962) 29

Chapter 3 Mister Cory (1957) 64

Chapter 4 Experiment in Terror (1962) 77

Chapter 5 Days of Wine and Roses (1962) 92

Chapter 6 Gunn (1967) and Peter Gunn (1989) 108

Chapter 7 Wild Rovers (1971) 129

Chapter 8 The Carey Treatment (1972) 152

Chapter 9 Julie (1972) 171

Chapter 10 The Tamarind Seed (1974) 194

Chapter 11 Sunset (1988) 210

Chapter 12 The Late Period: Play It Again, Blake 234

Appendix 1: Books on Blake Edwards 261

Appendix 2: The Interviews 263

Index 265