In Conversation with Brian Clemens

Read all about a Ben Hecht-style upbringing; fooling an experienced casting director; the historic ‘Brides in the Bath’ murders; visualising a script; Ingrid Pitt on Lady Macbeth; professional fall-outs; getting ‘the gig’ on ITC action-adventure shows; the funny side of ‘Psycho’, Edgar Allan Poe awards; Lew Grade ‘deals’; libraries and florists; a Guinness with Max Wall in Brighton; attacks on the nerves; creaking old houses and Truman Capote inspiring a notable film project with Mia Farrow. Planned as a formal interview to explore screenwriter Brian Clemens’ thoughts and recollections as to his masterful anthology series ‘THRILLER’, the resulting conversation soon evolved into a freewheeling, even barnstorming, discussion on such topics as Shakespeare’s construction of his narratives and the startling effects of Kelly McGillis in a hayloft on Harrison Ford, all to be taken with a hearty slice of ‘Rabbit Pie’! Join me herein for an unexpurgated, fully annotated and indexed; witty and informative ‘ride’ with a British television icon - featuring a foreword by Brian’s son Samuel Clemens and some choice bonus material. Watch out for a Hitchcockian switch!