Shepperton Babylon

By: Matthew Sweet

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Paperback | 16 February 2006 | Edition Number 1

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400 Pages

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'A singular triumph . It makes our cinematic history vivid and invigorating in a way few books have yet managed.' - Empire

This is a wonderful secret history of British movies that includes the scandals, the suicides, the immolations and the contract killings - the product of thousands of conversations with veteran film-makers. Here you'll meet, among many others, 20s film idols snorting cocaine from an illuminated glass dance floor on the back of the Thames, the model who escaped Soho's gangsters to become the queen of the nudie flicks and the genteel Scottish comedienne who, at the age of fifty-five, reinvented herself as a star of exploitation cinema, and fondly remembers 'the one where I drilled in people's heads and ate their brains.' Welcome to the lost worlds of British cinema.

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"'A singular triumph... It makes our cinematic history vivid and invigorating in a way few books have yet managed.' Empire 'Very well-informed and effortlessly funny. I doubt there will be a better film book this year.' Independent"

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