Alan Sharp: From Greenock to Hollywood

This season of films, by a neglected figure who worked with Hollywood’s greatest directors and became one of Scotland’s most important transnational authors, has been specifically devised to restore Sharp’s work to the prominence it deserves. Featuring films directed by legendary auteurs such as Peter Fonda, Robert Aldrich and Arthur Penn, and including actors such as Burt Lancaster, Melanie Griffith, Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Verna Bloom and James Woods, it illustrates the astonishing career of a self-taught, working-class man who made it all the way to the top just because he believed in himself.