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Leon Clore (* 9. Juli 1918 in Brighton; † 9. Februar 1992 in London) [1] [2] war ein britischer Filmproduzent, der überwiegend an Dokumentarfilmen oder Kurzfilmen mitwirkte. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Karriere. 2 Privat. 3 Filmografie (Auswahl) 4 Weblinks. 5 Einzelnachweise. Karriere.
9 February 1992. (1992-02-09) (aged 73) White City, London, England. Citizenship. British. Occupation. Film producer. Leon Clore (9 July 1918 – 9 February 1992) was a British film producer who was primarily involved in documentary and short films, as well as several motion pictures.
Leon Clore (born on July 9 1918; died February 9 1992 in London) was a British film producer who was primarily involved in documentary and short films, as well as several major movie pictures.
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The film intercuts the stories of two romantic affairs. One is within a Victorian period drama involving a gentleman palaeontologist, Charles Smithson, and the complex and troubled Sarah Woodruff, known as "the French lieutenant's woman". The other affair is between the actors Mike and Anna, playing the lead roles in a modern filming of the story. ...
Harold Pinter and Karel Reisz worked on the script in 1979, with Leon Clore as producer, and with whom Reisz regularly worked in their company Film Contracts, formed many years earlier. Leon had produced Reisz' Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment. The film was shot in 1980 on location in Lyme Regis, Dartmouth, Exeter, London docks, and Windermere...
Box office
The film was the second highest-grossing British film for the year with theatrical rentals of £1,244,152, behind Chariots of Fire.
Critical reception
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it "a beautiful film to look at, and remarkably well-acted". Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it "an astonishingly beautiful film, acted to the elegant hilt by Meryl Streep as the ultimately unreliable Sarah; Jeremy Irons, who looks a lot like the young Laurence Olivier of Wuthering Heights, as Charles Smithson, and by a cast of splendid supporting actors of the sort that only England seem...
Bibliography
1. Gale, Steven H. (2002). Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2706-8.
Bayer, Gerd (2010). "On Filming Metafiction: John Fowles's Unpublished 'The Last Chapter' and the Road to Postmodern Cinema". English Studies. 91 (8): 893–906. doi:10.1080/0013838X.2010.517301. S2C...Gale, Steven H. (2001). "Harold Pinter's The French Lieutenant's Woman: A Masterpiece of Adaptation". In Gale, Steven H. (ed.). The Films of Harold Pinter. Albany: State University of New York Pres...The French Lieutenant's Woman at IMDbThe French Lieutenant's Woman at Rotten TomatoesThe French Lieutenant’s Woman: A Room of Her Own an essay by Lucy Bolton at the Criterion CollectionLeon Clore was born on July 9, 1918. He was a producer and assistant director, known for The Conquest of Everest (1953), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) and Our Virgin Island (1958). He died on February 9, 1992.
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It was made by British Lion and produced by Leon Clore from a screenplay by David Mercer, adapted from his BBC television play A Suitable Case for Treatment (1962), in which the leading role was played by Ian Hendry.
Leon Clore was a film producer whose credits include "The French Lieutenant's Woman. Born in Brighton Clore was instrumental in launching the film careers of such directors as Lindsay Anderson. He also nurtured the British career of blacklisted American director Joseph Losey. With John Taylor and Grahame he formed Countryman Films which ...
