Appendix 3.2: Sample films - synopses and character lists
EAST OF EDEN US 55
14 |
Sam the Sheriff____________________________________ |
4_____ |
15 |
Two drunks in the Monterey jail___________________ |
4_____ |
16 |
Men and boys at the lettuce harvest |
4____ |
17 |
Three coalmen passing by the lettuce harvest |
4_____ |
18 |
Abra's father, not seen but referred to in |
4 |
19 |
Two men loading lettuce onto railroad cars |
4_____ |
20 |
Crowd at the railroad station_____________________ |
4____ |
21 |
Band playing as the train pulls out |
4_____ |
22 |
Mechanic explaining automobile to the Trask |
4 |
23 |
Men in the keep fit class |
4_____ |
24 |
Doorman at the keep fit class |
4_____ |
25 |
Instructor and pianist on stage in the keep fit |
4 |
26 |
Participants and observers at the war parade______ |
4____ |
27 |
Uniformed army officer leading new recruits______ |
4_____ |
28 |
Procession of new recruits |
4_____ |
29 |
Old men watching new recruits____________________ |
4____ |
30 |
Mexican farmer and boys at the bean field_________ |
4_____ |
31 |
Uniformed man accosting Abra at the fair |
4_____ |
32 |
Crowds at the fair |
4_____ |
33 |
Men discussing Germans, at the fair |
4_____ |
34 |
Crowd at the brawl_________________________________ |
4_____ |
35 |
Mr Olbrecht1S father_____________________________ |
4_____ |
36 |
Farmer and his son asking Adam about the draft |
4____ |
37 |
Doctor attending Adam |
4_____ |
REACH FOR THE SKY dir Lewis Gilbert UK 1956
This film offers a detailed study of a segment from the life
of Douglas Bader (Kenneth More), opening with his arrival in
September 1928 at RAF Cranwell as a trainee pilot, and closing
with his triumphal flight over London in May 1945 to
comment orate the fifth anniversary of the Battle of Britain in
229