Jack Whittingham (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jack Whittingham (1910 - July 3, 1972) was a British playwright, film critic, and screenwriter. He was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford. Beginning with the film Q Planes, Whittingham was a prolific screenwriter. He is particularly famous for having collaborated with Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory on a James Bond screenplay for a film. When these plans were scrapped, Fleming novelised the work into his ninth official novel, Thunderball; however, the novel only credited Fleming. McClory and Whittingham then sued Fleming, which led to a settlement in 1963 that gave McClory the film rights to the novel. During the lawsuit, Jack Whittingham stepped down as 'co-plaintiff' and stood by Kevin as 'principal witness', having previously signed away all his rights "of whatsoever nature" entirely when the screenplay was presumed finished.