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Alan Sharp is one of Scotland’s most significant writers. The adopted son of a Greenock shipyard worker, he became a best-selling novelist, a leading television playwright and a record-breaking Hollywood screenwriter.
Jun 2, 2023 · The focus of Manderson’s research was the Alan Sharp Papers Collection, established at Dundee University in 2013, the year Sharp died. The holdings include manuscripts, letters, notes, interview transcripts, reviews and audience reports, and Manderson examined this material meticulously.
Alan Sharp (12 January 1934 – 8 February 2013) was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter. He published two novels in the 1960s, and subsequently wrote the screenplays for about twenty films, mostly produced in the United States.
The audience is just as bewildered as Harry: Alan Sharp’s aptly written screenplay makes sure of that. Night Moves demands, and deserves, multiple viewings, and every single one of them is equally rewarding.
Alan Sharp was born on 12 January 1934 in Alyth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Dean Spanley (2008), Rob Roy (1995) and Night Moves (1975). He was married to Elizabeth Thomas, Sarah (Sally) Travers, Margaret Inglis Donachie and Harriet Sharp.
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A Scottish born screenwriter with a diverse range of credits, Sharp wrote The Last Run (1971), The Hired Hand (1971), Ulzana’s Raid (1972), Billy Two Hats (1974) and Night Moves (1975).
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Alan Sharp: Revisionist Screenwriter and Novelist. Mario Relich. David Manderson (2023), The Anti-Hero’s Journey: The Work and Life of Alan Sharp, Oxford and New York: Peter Lang Publishing. Paperback, 371 pp, £40.00, ISBN 978-1-7899-7575-8.
