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Wendy Haslem

Wendy Haslem is a lecturer in the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches courses on film history and Australian cinema.

Wendy Haslem reviews ‘Roy Ward Baker’ by Geoff Mayer

November 2005, no. 276 01 November 2005
Roy Ward Baker is quoted as saying ‘realism is my forte’. But Geoff Mayer’s book reveals that over a fifty-eight-year career in film and television, Baker was much more than just a ‘realist’. Baker began as a ‘gopher’ at Gainsborough Studios in 1934, but he is best known for directing what is perhaps the definitive film on the Titanic disaster, A Night to Remember (1958). He also dir ... (read more)