Mankowitz screenplay
In his own words, most of the Russian writer Gogol’s work was pervaded by “laughter through tears invisible to the world.”
“The Bespoke Overcoat” a screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz, was suggested by a story of Gogol.
It is about the love of the poor for the very poor; about an East End Jewish tailor, a frail and impoverished old clerk and a coat with a sheepskin lining. To help his friend. Morry the tailor offers to make him a skeepskinlined overcoat, but before the [coat is completed the old clerk. Fender, dies. His yearning for the coat, however, is great enough to transcend .even death.
"The Bespoke Overcoat” features David Kossoff as Morry the tailor, and Alfie Bass as Fender. It is a Remus production, produced and directed by Jack Clayton and screens from CHTV3 next Sunday evening.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33058, 27 October 1972, Page 4
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