Band of Angels melodrama, directed by Raoul Walsh, bears some thematic resemblance to 'Gone With the Wind', in dealing with issues of race and miscegenation, set against the backdrop of the Civil War." Band of Angels Band of Angels is a 1957 romantic drama film set in the American South before and during the American Civil War, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren. It starred Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo and Sidney Poitier. The movie was directed by Raoul Walsh. Amantha Starr (Yvonne De Carlo) is the privileged daughter of a Kentucky plantation owner. However, after
Jim Clark (film editor) BAFTA Awards for his editing of the films "Vera Drake" (directed by Mike Leigh-2004) and "Marathon Man" (directed by John Schlesinger-1976). In 2005, Clark received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award. Responding to a question about the major influences on his editing, Clark said As a director he was responsible for "Rentadick" (1972) and "Madhouse" (1974) starring Vincent Price. Clark lived in Kensington with his wife Laurence Méry-Clark, also a film and television editor. They married in 1961 and had three children. In 2011, Clark's autobiography "Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing" was published, receiving warm reviews from "The