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Summary
Richard Ayoade edits and introduces this defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen — rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber.
This volume of Harauld Hughes’s first three screenplays includes a preface by the author, as well as new critical appreciations by Richard Ayoade, Chloë Clifton-Wright and his current widow, Lady Virginia Lovilocke.
THE SWINGING MODELS
The film that started it all: Hughes’s searing indictment of the bikini business’s (literal) underbelly.
THE ESPECIALLY WAYWARD GIRL
A new student discovers her classmates have a thirst for human blood, which makes it hard to focus on the syllabus.
THE MODEL AND THE ROCKER
A dream collage of catwalks, crispy beats and crustaceans takes shape in this — one of Hughes’s most confusing narratives.
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Harauld Hughes was born in Cardiff in 1931. In 1932, his mother sent him to London to fend for himself. He remained there until the outbreak of the Second World War, when he was evacuated to Suffolk, despite his offers to enlist. Hughes returned to London in 1945 and lived in the Elephant and Castle. His experiences as a teenage…
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