Blake Edwards, director of the Pink Panther films, has died aged 88. We look back over his career in clips
Not many fledgling scriptwriters can upset the masses enough to make the front page of the New York Times the following day, but that's what happened when Orson Welles handpicked Blake Edwards to work on his notorious 1938 radio play War Of The Worlds.
However, it was television where Edwards began to carve out his own distinctive style. Created as a response to Mike Hammer, Sam Spade and countless other noir private dicks of the time, the late 50s NBC series Peter Gunn would prove to be the birthplace of much of Blake Edwards's style.
Slick where his counterparts were abrasive, dapper where they were downbeat, Gunn – propelled by Henry Mancini's timeless theme music – was cooler than anyone could have imagined.
Edwards wasn't responsible for the screenplay for 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's,...
Not many fledgling scriptwriters can upset the masses enough to make the front page of the New York Times the following day, but that's what happened when Orson Welles handpicked Blake Edwards to work on his notorious 1938 radio play War Of The Worlds.
However, it was television where Edwards began to carve out his own distinctive style. Created as a response to Mike Hammer, Sam Spade and countless other noir private dicks of the time, the late 50s NBC series Peter Gunn would prove to be the birthplace of much of Blake Edwards's style.
Slick where his counterparts were abrasive, dapper where they were downbeat, Gunn – propelled by Henry Mancini's timeless theme music – was cooler than anyone could have imagined.
Edwards wasn't responsible for the screenplay for 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's,...
- 12/17/2010
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
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