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4 unusual facts about Leslie Halliwell


The Filmgoer's Companion

It was originally written by Leslie Halliwell, but since his death in 1989, it has been edited by John Walker.

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker

Leslie Halliwell called it a "sardonic adult comedy of the battle of the sexes" (Halliwell, 2000: 522).

The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

Leslie Halliwell also panned the film as an "hysterical psychic melodrama which pretty well ruins its own chances by failing to explain its plot", (Halliwell, 2000: 675).

Three Came Home

In August 1976, Leslie Halliwell described the film as "well-made, harrowing", assigning it ** (2 stars out of 4), a rarely granted high rating.


Philip Purser

Purser has also co-authored three editions of Halliwell's Television Companion (1982, 1986, originally Halliwell's Teleguide 1979) and wrote a TV film The One and Only Phyllis Dixey (Peek-A-Boo) on the wartime erotic entertainer for Thames in 1978.


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