Charles Crichton

Quentin Falk is an author, critic and former editor of Screen International and Academy, the BAFTA journal. He has published numerous books, among them studies of Anthony Hopkins, Albert Finney and Alfred Hitchcock.

• Introduction1 Cutting for Korda: 1932–352 Cutting for Korda: 1936–403 The forties: Enter Ealing, 1940–454 The forties: 1946–495 The fifties: 1950–546 The fifties: Exit Ealing, 1954–597 The sixties: 1960–648 The sixties: 1965–699 The seventies: Downsizing10 The eighties: Ealing RegainedIndex

'Veteran critic Quentin Falk runs vigorously through the Ealing icon’s career half-decade by half-decade.'Total Film'Falk bases his study on academic accounts, memoirs, autobiographies, private correspondence with the Crichton family, copious use of reviews and the range of interviews with industry personnel one might expect from a former editor of Screen International, including Falk’s own 1987 interview with Crichton for the Guardian... An authoritative and perceptive account.' The Journal of British Cinema and Television