| Introduction : a revolutionary soldier | p. 1 |
| My country right or wrong? | p. 33 |
| A child of empire | p. 35 |
| Sequence | p. 41 |
| Starting in films | p. 50 |
| The value of an Oscar | p. 56 |
| Finding a style | p. 59 |
| Commercials and television | p. 61 |
| Bernard Miles | p. 63 |
| Notes from Sherwood | p. 66 |
| Every day except Christmas | p. 70 |
| Free cinema | p. 73 |
| The court style | p. 78 |
| Glory days | p. 83 |
| Sport, life and art | p. 90 |
| Roberto Gerhard and the music for This sporting life | p. 99 |
| The singing lesson | p. 102 |
| The white bus | p. 105 |
| How If .... came about | p. 108 |
| School to screen | p. 112 |
| If .... the colour of monochrome | p. 116 |
| Notes for a preface | p. 120 |
| In celebration | p. 124 |
| O lucky man! | p. 126 |
| Stripping the veils away | p. 129 |
| The old crowd | p. 137 |
| Britannia hospital | p. 148 |
| Wham! in China | p. 158 |
| The whales of August | p. 162 |
| Lillian and Bette : Bette and Lillian | p. 165 |
| Bette Davis | p. 169 |
| Glory! glory! | p. 170 |
| 35 days in Toronto | p. 172 |
| The long night of the Russian Canape | p. 180 |
| Is that all there is? | p. 184 |
| Angles of approach | p. 189 |
| Creative elements | p. 194 |
| The director's cinema? | p. 200 |
| The film artist - freedom and responsibility! | p. 210 |
| The cinema is ... | p. 215 |
| Stand up! stand up! | p. 218 |
| Get out and push! | p. 233 |
| French critical writing | p. 252 |
| Positif and Cahiers du Cinema | p. 255 |
| Catholicism and the cinema | p. 257 |
| David Robinson | p. 260 |
| Dilys Powell and C. A. Lejeune | p. 263 |
| Taking them all in : Pauline Kael | p. 265 |
| Too much : art and society in the sixties | p. 268 |
| Critical betrayal | p. 271 |
| Vital theatre | p. 281 |
| Replying to critics | p. 286 |
| Pre-Renaissance : is the left going in the right direction? | p. 289 |
| No nonsense about Shakespeare | p. 297 |
| The playboy in Edinburgh | p. 299 |
| A French hamlet | p. 301 |
| At the court of King George | p. 303 |
| Jocelyn Herbert | p. 308 |
| Tony Richardson | p. 311 |
| John Dexter | p. 315 |
| John Osborne | p. 319 |
| Jill Bennett | p. 322 |
| Rachel Roberts | p. 323 |
| John Haynes | p. 325 |
| John Gielgud | p. 330 |
| David Storey | p. 332 |
| A possible solution | p. 336 |
| British cinema : the descending spiral | p. 340 |
| The studio that begs to differ | p. 347 |
| Going it alone : the British documentarists | p. 353 |
| Only connect : some aspects of the work of Humphrey Jennings | p. 358 |
| Postscript to 'only connect' | p. 365 |
| Lucky Jim | p. 367 |
| The films of Carol Reed | p. 369 |
| A prophet without honour | p. 374 |
| A matter of life and death : Michael Powell | p. 377 |
| Recollections of a full life : Bryan Forbes | p. 380 |
| The short flight of a golden bird | p. 382 |
| Bill Douglas | p. 385 |
| The lost past of British cinema | p. 386 |
| The lights that failed | p. 387 |
| British cinema : the historical imperative | p. 390 |
| Inventing Hollywood | p. 400 |
| Charlie Chaplin | p. 404 |
| Mary Pickford | p. 408 |
| The films of Alfred Hitchcock | p. 410 |
| Return of the prodigal : Von Stroheim | p. 421 |
| Garbo and Shearer | p. 424 |
| Shirley Temple | p. 428 |
| Mary Astor | p. 431 |
| Katharine Hepburn | p. 436 |
| George Cukor | p. 439 |
| David O. Selznick | p. 441 |
| Meeting in Dublin with John Ford : The quiet man | p. 444 |
| They were expendable and John Ford | p. 452 |
| Last meeting : palm desert | p. 465 |
| The Hustons | p. 469 |
| Orson Welles | p. 472 |
| Joseph Losey | p. 477 |
| Nicholas Ray | p. 479 |
| Don Siegel | p. 481 |
| Martin Scorsese | p. 483 |
| Behind the mask of innocence : Kevin Brownlow | p. 485 |
| The birth of a nation | p. 487 |
| Louisiana story | p. 489 |
| Guys and dolls, A hill in Korea and Smiles of a summer night | p. 491 |
| The big heat | p. 493 |
| Them! | p. 494 |
| Giant | p. 495 |
| The girl can't help it | p. 497 |
| Minnelli, Kelly and An American in Paris | p. 498 |
| Science fiction movies | p. 503 |
| The last sequence of On the waterfront | p. 505 |
| Hooray for Hollywood | p. 512 |
| Hype vs. old lies | p. 517 |
| Sergei Eisenstein | p. 522 |
| Theoretical writings of Eisenstein | p. 526 |
| Kozintsev's Lear | p. 529 |
| L'Atalante, the forgotten masterpiece | p. 530 |
| Leni Riefenstahl | p. 533 |
| Encounter with Prevert | p. 535 |
| Bergman's reticent confessional | p. 537 |
| Satyajit Ray, commitment to humanity | p. 539 |
| Roman Polanski | p. 542 |
| Paisa | p. 546 |
| Sciuscia | p. 548 |
| Casque d'Or | p. 549 |
| Madame de ... | p. 554 |
| The adventures of Robinson Crusoe | p. 556 |
| La Terra Trema and Baby doll | p. 558 |
| A generation and Bridge on the River Kwai | p. 560 |
| Three to cheer for | p. 562 |
| Cannes 1955 | p. 570 |
| Cannes for the tenth time | p. 575 |
| Two inches off the ground | p. 578 |
| Commitment in a cold climate | p. 583 |
| The theatre we deserve | p. 590 |
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