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This study focuses on the genre of screwball comedy between 1934 and 1942, film-by-film, year-by-year, providing film enthusiasts or serious researchers with an informed guide to the screen offerings of the era.
This biography of John Wayne includes analyses of films that made him a hero, a comprehensive filmography, and a study of his style of work.
Columbia produced over 500 two-reel shorts from 1933 through 1958, with Hollywood's finest comics. Fully illustrated with never-before-published photographs, this book chronicles the history of all, including interviews with the veterans. The filmography covers all of the 526 two-reelers: credits, date, synopsis.
Though the horror film was not officially born until Frankenstein was released in 1931, there were many silent films that contained terrifying scenes and horrific elements. This filmography includes all such silent films.
3-D Movies is the first full and accurate history of 3-D film from the earliest part of the 20th century to the present. Full technical specifications are given, along with patent drawings and equipment photos.
This is a definitive record of the players and productions of Mascot Pictures, a film company that specialised in chapter plays and B movies and became influential in winning an audience for the kind of films it innovated, such as the musical Western.
This text looks at such varied subjects as Victorian architecture, urban crime, women's rights and the impact of new technology in an attempt to understand the peculiar relationship between horror in literature and the horror of daily life.
The compilers of this book have brought together some of the funniest snatches of dialogue on film over a 60 year time period. Each entry sets the quotation in context, names the actor or actress, the name of the movie and the year of release. The quotations are arranged by category.
This is a complete filmography of Allied Artists Pictures Corporations' 452 feature films and short subjects. Each entry gives dates of release, running time, genre, production credits, cast, a brief plot synopsis and a notes section showing items of special interest.
This is a photographic guide to 382 sites in and around Los Angeles that have been used in film and television. Some are well known (Mann's Chinese Theater, the Hollywood Bowl), others are obscure (such as the Hollywood Hills house used in ""Double Indemnity"").
This text evaluates the work of Laurel and Hardy. It summarizes the critical reception of the two and compares Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to other contemporary comedians. Brief biographies analyse early solo films and the development of the team. Attention is given to cinematic and comic style.
Taboo breakers and trend setters, shameless hucksters and famous directors, exploitation filmmaking has seen it all. This collection features ""classic films"" such as ""The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"" and ""Nude On The Moon"".
Poverty Row Horror films were cheaply produced with writing that ranged from bad to atrocious. These essays contain full filmographic data on the 31 horror chillers made by the three studios from 1940 through 1946.
Best known for his television Perry Mason, Raymond Burr had a career spanning over 50 years. His life is meticulously documented here, including movie roles in such Hollywood productions as Rear Window and Key to the City.
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