We'll Take Manhattan ( We Will Take Manhattan )

We'll Take Manhattan (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: We Will Take Manhattan
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
89 min + 13 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Behind the scenes
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
John McKay

Written By:
John McKay

Actors:
Sascha Bailey ..... Studio Assistant
Frances Barber ..... Diana Vreeland
Aneurin Barnard ..... David Bailey
Fiona Button ..... Lavinia
Anna Chancellor ..... Lucie Clayton
Allan Corduner ..... Alex Liberman
Clemmie Dugdale ..... Chrissie Shrimpton
Karen Gillan ..... Jean Shrimpton
Robert Glenister ..... Ted Shrimpton
Louise Gold ..... Ailsa Garland
Alex Jennings ..... John Parsons
Dominic Le Moignan ..... Vogue Art Junior
Natasha Little ..... Peggy Shrimpton
Joseph May ..... Larry Schwartz
Helen McCrory ..... Lady Clare Rendlesham

Synopsis:

In 1962 budding young photographer David Bailey gets a fifteen guinea contract working for 'Vogue' magazine. For his first shoot,an Acrylan advert, he picks inexperienced teenage model Jean Shrimpton, who has left home to escape a bullying father and moves in with Bailey, despite his having a wife. When the magazine launches its Young Ideas feature, to capture a youth readership, Bailey and Jean are sent on a photo shoot to New York with the magazine's fashion editor Lady Clare Rendlesham. Lady Clare is incensed when Bailey defies her orders and shoots impressively unorthodox photos of his nervous muse, demanding his removal from the magazine. Vogue editor Ailsa Garland, however, recognises the innovative nature of Bailey's work and over-rules Lady Clare, giving rise to one of the most famous partnerships of the Swinging Sixties.

In winter 1962, young cockney photographer David Bailey is given an important assignment by British Vogue to do a fashion shoot in New York. He sticks his neck out, and insists on using the then-unknown model Jean Shrimpton. Who happens to be his girlfriend... In a freezing winter week in Manhattan, they behave very badly, fall in love, drive their fashion editor Lady Clare Rendlesham to tears, make startling photographs, and help invent the sixties. We'll Take Manhattan is the story of that wild week, of their love affair, and of how two young people with no such intention happened to change the world of fashion forever.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 10 March, 2012.