Download or read Mystery Suspense Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1,200 DVDs in the mystery, suspense and film noir categories were examined and rated for this illustrated guide. The book is divided into two main sections. In the first, 218 movies are given the glamour treatment with comprehensive details of players and crews, plus background information and reviews. In the second section, essential details on over 500 films are briefly described. Bonus articles includes a survey of "The Thin Man" series, "Sherlock Holmes," "Humphrey Bogart versus Alan Ladd," "Raymond Chandler on the Big Screen" and "The Big Clock." This book will not only prove most useful for all movie fans, but will enthrall and entertain for years to come.
Download or read Film Noir Detective and Mystery Movies on DVD A Guide to the Best in Suspense PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read Classic Movies The Best and the Worst Pictures to see Films to avoid PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered in this large volume paperback are some of Hollywood's best loved and most famous movies. In addition to the many film classics, however, the author has included a number of equally entertaining films that deserve to be better known. Many of these movies are now available on DVD. Full credits and detailed reviews are provided for over a hundred of these classic films. Over two hundred more movies are represented by short reviews. Many of the reviews contain DVD details. Of course, not all classic movies have surfaced on DVD to date, but they are being issued at the rate of around forty a month! If you love classic movies, this book will provide an invaluable guide to some of the enjoyable films that are now available (and also, of course, some of the disappointing films that you might wisely avoid).
Download or read A Risky Business Crime in the Movies PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read 50 of the Finest Films Hollywood Ever Made PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read Silent Movies Plus More Silent Films Early Talkies on DVD PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost all the CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD MOVIES discussed in this book are currently available on DVD. Many are sold by specialist stores such as Oldies. And now that vintage titles are being pressed on demand, theoretically they will never go out of print! However, an attempt has been made to include some of the classics that are not so well-known, as well as those that are more frequently aired on TV or are prominently featured in retail and mail order stores. Here, for example, are a few of the movie titles that begin with the letter "S" Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917), Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947), She Goes To War (1929), the Shining Adventure (1925), the Ship of Lost Men (1929), Show-Off (1926), Silent Enemy (1930), Sky Bride (1932), Sky High (1922), Slums of New York (1932), the Smart Set (1928), Son of the Gods (1930), Speedway (1929), Spite Marriage (1929), the Squall (1929), Square Shoulders (1929), Stranger in Town (1932), Strictly Unconventional (1930), Sunset Trail (1932), Svengali (1931).
Download or read 500 Famous Films PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read History in Movies Hollywood Style PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read 140 All Time Must See Movies for Film Lovers Now Available On DVD PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Howard Reid's books are not only noted for the wealth of essential information he provides on each film he discusses, but for the insight and clarity of his reviews. Reid has been reviewing films professionally since 1955, and has contributed an enormous amount of material to newspapers and magazines in England, France, Australia and the USA. In the course of his work, Reid has come into contact with many famous stars and directors, and is often able to provide quotes and information that no other sources can duplicate. As a reviewer for one of Reid's previous books rightly pointed out, "Nobody does it better than John Howard Reid." In fact, Reid often provides far more information than the titles of his books suggest. "140 All-Time Must-See Movies" is a typical case. The book actually provides full details and reviews for 160 feature films plus brief comments on over 30 shorts.
Download or read 150 Finest Films of the Fifties PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950's saw a major revolution on the movie front. In order to combat TV, the size of movies screens was changed forever. Unfortunately, there was no standard agreement as to what dimensions, the preferred new sized screen should be.
Download or read More New Light On Movie Bests PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read British Movie Entertainments on Vhs and DVD A Classic Movie Fan s Guide PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike their American colleagues, British suppliers were extremely slow to release their country's superb libraries of classic films for movie fans to purchase on either VHS tapes or DVD discs. In 2004, little over 100 titles were available. But now there are around 700, with promises of many more to come. This book details some of the best. Over 400 movies in all are described in either minute detail or in summary form! The quality (or lack of quality) in the DVD transfer is fearlessly indicated. The author's emphasis is on movies made before 1970, especially those with popular stars such as Glynis Johns, Gracie Fields, George Formby, Margaret Lockwood, Arthur Askey, Anna Neagle, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Stewart Granger, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Will Hay, Tommy Trinder, Alec Guinness, Michael Wilding, Peter Finch, Christopher Lee, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Kenneth More, Kay Kendall, John Gregson, etc.
Download or read 77 Movies That Just Missed Awards or Audience Applause PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movies detailed in this book include both films that are well-known and those that are somewhat obscure, although nearly all are now available on DVD. Titles include The Bat Whispers, The Bishop Misbehaves, Black Midnight, Caesar and Cleopatra, Chisum, City Beneath the Sea, Comedy of Terrors, Corsair, The Count of Monte Cristo, Cromwell, The Egyptian, The Glass Web, How To Marry a Millionaire, The Jack-Knife Man, Key to the City, Kiss Me Deadly, Ladies Love Danger, Midnight, Our Hospitality, The Road to Reno, So This Is New York, Stella Dallas, Stormy Weather, The Thirteenth Guest, Tickle Me, Titanic, Tower of London, Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round, The Valley of Decision, Viva Zapata!, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man.
Download or read Great Movie Musicals on DVD PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 60 great film musicals from Hollywood's major studios are given detailed treatment, while hundreds more are briefly noted in this comprehensive guide to the best of America's vintage movie musical classics that are now available on DVD.
Download or read Hollywood Classics Title Index to All Movies Reviewed in PDF, written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete index to all the films reviewed in all 24 of the "Hollywood Classics" movie books, this massive final volume not only devotes 120 pages to the title index but also contains 212 pages of exhaustive details and comments on an additional 80 must-see films. This additional 80 includes such classics as "A Streetcar Named Desire", the 1937 "Prisoner of Zenda", the multi-award winning "All the King's Men", Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo", Henry King's "Tol'able David", Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", Byron Haskin's "The War of the Worlds", the Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor "Waterloo Bridge", the Clark Gable and Jean Harlow "Red Dust", Ronald Colman's "If I Were King", the classic noir "Out of the Past", three versions of "Romeo and Juliet", and the delightful Claudette Colbert and James Stewart comedy, "It's a Wonderful World".
Download or read Ray Milland PDF, written by James McKay and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With no formal training as an actor, Welsh-born Ray Milland (1907-1986), a former trooper in the British Army's Household Cavalry, enjoyed a half-century career working alongside some of the great directors and stars from the Golden Age of cinema. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as the alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945), a defining moment that enabled him to break free from romantic leads and explore darker shades of his debonair demeanor, such as the veiled menace of his scheming husband in Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder (1954). A consummate professional with wide range, Milland took the directorial reins in several of his starring vehicles in the 1950s, most notably in the intelligent Western A Man Alone (1955). He comfortably slipped into most genres, from romantic comedy to adventure to film noir. Later he turned to science fiction and horror movies, including two with cult filmmaker Roger Corman. This first complete filmography covers the actor's screen career, with a concise introductory biography and an appendix listing his extensive radio and television credits.
