The Bespoke Overcoat (1956)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 33m
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Alfie Bass, David Kossoff
Synopsis:
A poor warehouse employee, suffering from the extreme cold at work, enjoins a Jewish tailor friend to make him an overcoat, but dies before it is completed. Now a ghost, he persuades the tailor to go with him and steal a coat from his employer, who 'owes him'.
Review:
Based on a Gogol story and Wolf Mankowitz's stage adaptation, this is variously listed by IMDb as a 1954 TV movie directed by Eric Fawcett and a 1955 Romulus production directed by Jack Clayton! The latter theory carries wider traction, unless of course the TV version was a warm-up. In any event, it won a short film Oscar and is notable for its down-to-earth humour, moving performances from the two actors, and atmospheric lighting from Wolfgang Suschitzky.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 33m
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Alfie Bass, David Kossoff
Synopsis:
A poor warehouse employee, suffering from the extreme cold at work, enjoins a Jewish tailor friend to make him an overcoat, but dies before it is completed. Now a ghost, he persuades the tailor to go with him and steal a coat from his employer, who 'owes him'.
Review:
Based on a Gogol story and Wolf Mankowitz's stage adaptation, this is variously listed by IMDb as a 1954 TV movie directed by Eric Fawcett and a 1955 Romulus production directed by Jack Clayton! The latter theory carries wider traction, unless of course the TV version was a warm-up. In any event, it won a short film Oscar and is notable for its down-to-earth humour, moving performances from the two actors, and atmospheric lighting from Wolfgang Suschitzky.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 33m
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Alfie Bass, David Kossoff
Synopsis:
A poor warehouse employee, suffering from the extreme cold at work, enjoins a Jewish tailor friend to make him an overcoat, but dies before it is completed. Now a ghost, he persuades the tailor to go with him and steal a coat from his employer, who 'owes him'.
Review:
Based on a Gogol story and Wolf Mankowitz's stage adaptation, this is variously listed by IMDb as a 1954 TV movie directed by Eric Fawcett and a 1955 Romulus production directed by Jack Clayton! The latter theory carries wider traction, unless of course the TV version was a warm-up. In any event, it won a short film Oscar and is notable for its down-to-earth humour, moving performances from the two actors, and atmospheric lighting from Wolfgang Suschitzky.