![]() Kevin Brownlow, a film editor in his own right and author of the seminal silent film trilogy initiated with The Parade's Gone By., brings to Lean's biography an exhaustive knowledge of the art and the industry. ![]() All are classics, including The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to India. Lean's 1955 film Summertime took him from England to the world of international moviemaking and the stunning series of spectacular color epics that would gain for his work twenty-seven Academy Awards and fifty-six Academy Award nominations. There followed his legendary black-and-white films of the 1940s and his four-film movie collaboration with Noel Coward. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of the appropriately titled Great Expectations. The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. ![]()
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