British screenwriter, film producer and journalist
David Pirie is a screenwriter, film producer, film critic, and novelist. As a screenwriter, he is known for his noirish original thrillers, classic adaptations and period gothic pieces.[1] In 1998, he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Drama Serial for his adaptation of Wilkie Collins's 1859 novel The Woman in White into "The Woman in White" (BBC, 1997).[2] His first book, A Heritage of Horror: The English Gothic Cinema 1946–1972 (1973), was the first book-length survey of the British horror film.[3] He has written several novels, including the Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes trilogy which includes The Patient's Eyes (2002), The Night Calls (2003), and The Dark Water (2006).
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chimpanzee makeup is so convincing, as it was in the other pictures." DavidPirie of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "Infuriatingly, Escape from the Planet...
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characters are totally ludicrous and destroy utterly the film's credibility." DavidPirie of the Monthly Film Bulletin noted it being "full of slick visual conceits...
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by Nicholson as a hired gun... and an incredible, unexpected finale." DavidPirie in Time Out wrote: "Probably the first Western which really deserves...
predictability, found good words for the story and Janet Blair's performance. DavidPirie of Time Out magazine, while not happy with the casting of Janet Blair...
out of gas, along with the desperate old woman [Countess Elizabeth]." DavidPirie of The Monthly Film Bulletin called the acting "extremely poor," but...
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produced by Glow Worm. The Twelve: A miniseries, based on a concept by DavidPirie, about an FBI agent who finds evidence that the world will end on the...
of the film. In his book A Heritage of Horror (1971, the film critic DavidPirie considered Circus of Horrors to be the third entry in what he calls Anglo-Amalgamated's...
drink it and pours the tea into a sugar bowl. Adaptor: DavidPirie Director: David Moore Cast: David Suchet as Hercule Poirot Elisabeth Dermot Walsh as Elinor...
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