Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide

Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide
Title Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide PDF eBook
Author John Howard Reid
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 321
Release 2008-06-26
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1435710738

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A guide to 178 classic Hollywood movies from the 1920s and early 1930s, now available on DVD releases from both major and independent USA companies. These films feature both stars like Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, Louise Brooks, Charles Chaplin, Joan Crawford, Colleen Moore, Harold Lloyd, Gary Cooper, William Powell, Greta Garbo, Rudolph Valentino, Norma Shearer, Buster Keaton, Shirley Temple, Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Colman, Lillian Gish, Marion Davies, and Wallace Beery, who are still top favorites with movie fans, as well as players like Laura La Plante, Charles Ray, Alice Terry, Pola Negri, Mary Miles Minter, Rod La Rocque, and Mabel Poulton who were also extraordinarily popular in their day. The book is illustrated with 105 well-chosen black-and-white photos from the author's private collection.

British Movie Entertainments on Vhs and DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide

British Movie Entertainments on Vhs and DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide
Title British Movie Entertainments on Vhs and DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide PDF eBook
Author John Howard Reid
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 294
Release 2010-11
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 055758275X

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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.

Film Noir, Detective and Mystery Movies on DVD: A Guide to the Best in Suspense

Film Noir, Detective and Mystery Movies on DVD: A Guide to the Best in Suspense
Title Film Noir, Detective and Mystery Movies on DVD: A Guide to the Best in Suspense PDF eBook
Author John Howard Reid
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 443
Release 2008-06-27
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1435730100

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A guide to classic and vintage motion picture suspense in film noir, mystery thrillers and detective movies from Hollywood's Golden Age, this book also provides credits, reviews, original release information and current DVD details. Movies include not only famous classics like "Charlie Chan in Egypt", "City Streets", "Counsellor at Law", "Father Brown, Detective", "Gilda", "The Kennel Murder Case", "The Lady from Shanghai", "Laura", "Mysterious Mr Moto", "The Naked City", "Nightmare Alley", "Odd Man Out", "Out of the Past", "The Paradine Case", "Rebecca", etc., but lesser known titles. Additional essays survey Film Noir, Sherlock Holmes, The Thin Man, Raymond Chandler, Humphrey Bogart and Alan Ladd.

Silent Films, 1877-1996

Silent Films, 1877-1996
Title Silent Films, 1877-1996 PDF eBook
Author Robert K. Klepper
Publisher McFarland
Pages 597
Release 2015-09-16
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1476604843

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This film reference covers 646 silent motion pictures, starting with Eadweard Muybridge's initial motion photography experiments in 1877 and even including The Taxi Dancer (1996). Among the genres included are classics, dramas, Westerns, light comedies, documentaries and even poorly produced early pornography. Masterpieces such as Joan the Woman (1916), Intolerance (1916) and Faust (1926) can be found, as well as rare titles that have not received critical attention since their original releases. Each entry provides the most complete credits possible, a full description, critical commentary, and an evaluation of the film's unique place in motion picture history. Birth dates, death dates, and other facts are provided for the directors and players where available, with a selection of photographs of those individuals. The work is thoroughly indexed.

Hollywood Classics Title Index to All Movies Reviewed in

Hollywood Classics Title Index to All Movies Reviewed in
Title Hollywood Classics Title Index to All Movies Reviewed in PDF eBook
Author John Howard Reid
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 345
Release 2010-10-27
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0557720869

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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".

Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD

Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD
Title Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD PDF eBook
Author John Howard Reid
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 469
Release 2009-09-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0557122236

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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.

Prophet, Priest and King

Prophet, Priest and King
Title Prophet, Priest and King PDF eBook
Author John Howard Reid
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 205
Release 2008-10-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1435729900

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Thrilling action, suspense and mystery abound in this historical novel, inspired by the books of Kings and Chronicles in the Old Testament of the Bible. Highlighting the latter days of King Solomon in the city of Jerusalem in Ancient Israel, the novel is a real page-turner that moves with the speed of an arrow. In addition to the aged King Solomon, Biblical characters include Jeroboam, a former governor in Israel, accused of plotting against Solomon and now exiled in Ancient Egypt; Ahijah, a wandering prophet, a friend and former servant of Jeroboam; Iddo, a blind seer; Rehoboam, Solomon's favorite son and designated heir; Zabud, Solomon's long-time friend; Qoheleth, a fanatical supporter of Jeroboam; Gallim, the mayor of Bethel; Berechiah, captain of the Bethel town guard; Nathan, the prophet; King David and his son, Adonijah; the girl, Abishag; Ethan, the sage; and Azariah, the young and ambitious High Priest.