

The Curt Siodmak interview was originally published, in slightly different form ("An Outspoken Interview with the Sultan of Speculation"), in the December 1988 and March/April 1989 issues ofįILMFAX. The Daniel Mainwaring interview was first published as "Screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring Discusses Out of the Past" in the Velvet Light Trap (Fall 1973). An edited portion of the Ben Maddow interview originally appeared as "The Invisible Man" in the Summer 1989 issue of Sight and Sound. The Leigh Brackett interview was originally published as "Grab What You Can Get: The Screenwriter as Journeyman Plumber" in the August–September 1976 issue of Films in Review.

The copy editor, whose remarks were appreciated and suggestions invariably adopted, was Lieselotte Hofmann. The transcriptions were rendered by the reliable Cindy Walker. Winburn (in New York City) volunteered their time and special talents for portrait photography of several of the screenwriters. The people who conducted (or, in the case of Tom Flinn, "edited") the interviews wrote the respective introductions.Īlison Morley (in Los Angeles) and William B. Pat McGilligan compiled all the filmographies, except Walter Reisch's (contributed by Joel Greenberg). The scriptwriters themselves were generous with their time and comments, with (in some cases) photographs from their personal stock, and, generally speaking, warm encouragement. This book, a labor of love for all involved, owes its existence to an unusually supportive editor, Ernest Callenbach, and to the writers who did the hard work of some of the interviews: Tina Daniell, Dennis Fischer, Joel Greenberg, Margy Rochlin, Steve Swires, David Thomson. Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1991. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Preferred Citation: McGilligan, Patrick. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.

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