The Light's on at Signpost

The Light's on at Signpost

Author	George MacDonald Fraser
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	memoir
Publication date	2002

The Light's on at Signpost is a memoir from George MacDonald Fraser covering his various adventures in screenwriting as well as essays on the state of modern-day England.

It includes chapters on:

working on The Three Musketeers with Richard Lester;
his relationship with Oliver Reed;
being approached to write a sequel to The Crimson Pirate by Burt Lancaster;
a diary entry when working on The Prince and the Pauper (1977);
working on Force 10 from Navarone in Yugoslavia;
adapting the novel Tai Pan, including working with Steve McQueen and Richard Fleischer;^[1]
working on Red Sonja and meeting Arnold Schwarzenegger
his work on the script for Superman;
a biographical sketch of Fraser.

References

↑ DJ Taylor, "Flash goes to the movies The Guardian, 15 June 2002 accessed 23 November 2012

External links

Works by George MacDonald Fraser

The Flashman Papers	Flashman (1969) Royal Flash (1970) Flash for Freedom! (1971) Flashman at the Charge (1973) Flashman in the Great Game (1975) Flashman's Lady (1977) Flashman and the Redskins (1982) Flashman and the Dragon (1985) Flashman and the Mountain of Light (1990) Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (1994) Flashman and the Tiger (1999) Flashman on the March (2005)

Other novels	Mr American (1980) The Pyrates (1983) The Candlemass Road (1993) Black Ajax (1997) The Reavers (2007) Captain in Calico (2015)

Short stories	The General Danced at Dawn (1970) McAuslan in the Rough (1974) The Sheikh and the Dustbin (1988)

History	The Steel Bonnets (1971) The Hollywood History of the World (1988, revised 1996)

Memoirs	Quartered Safe Out Here (1992) The Light's on at Signpost (2002)

Screenplays	The Three Musketeers (1973) The Four Musketeers (1974) Royal Flash (1975) The Prince and the Pauper (1977) Force 10 from Navarone (1978) (uncredited) Ashanti (1979) (uncredited) Superman II (1980) (uncredited) Octopussy (1983) Red Sonja (1985) The Return of the Musketeers (1989)

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