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

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435710738
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 055758275X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book British Movie Entertainments on Vhs and DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide 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.

Silent Movies & Early Sound Films on DVD: New Expanded Edition

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557433355
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Silent Movies & Early Sound Films on DVD: New Expanded Edition written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to DVD, a great number of silent films and early talkies are now available for home viewing. In fact, so many of these wonderful movies can now be purchased, rented or borrowed by classic motion picture fans that an up-to-date reference work to the best (and the middling and the worst) has become essential. In this comprehensive guide, fans and enthusiasts will find not only familiar titles like Lon Chaney's "Phantom of the Opera" or Douglas Fairbanks' "Thief of Bagdad" or Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last"; but the less familiar "Down to the Sea in Ships" (starring a young Clara Bow), "Evangeline" (Dolores Del Rio), "Stella Dallas" (Belle Bennett), "Monsieur Beaucaire" (Rudolph Valentino), Ford Sterling's "The Show-Off," and Al Jolson's "Big Boy," to mention just a few of the many hundreds of titles detailed in this massive book. 440 pages of insightful text! Over 110 wonderful photos!

Hollywood Classics Title Index to All Movies Reviewed in

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557720869
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (577 download)

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Book Synopsis Hollywood Classics Title Index to All Movies Reviewed in by : John Howard Reid

Download or read book Hollywood Classics Title Index to All Movies Reviewed in 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".

Missing Reels

Author : Farran Smith Nehme
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 146831078X
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Missing Reels written by Farran Smith Nehme and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and she’s never going back, minimum wage job (vintage store salesgirl) and shabby apartment (Avenue C walkup) be damned. Who cares about earthly matters when Ceinwen can spend her days and her nights at fading movie houses—and most of the time that’s left trying to look like Jean Harlow? One day, Ceinwen discovers that her downstairs neighbor may have—just possibly—starred in a forgotten silent film that hasn’t been seen for ages. So naturally, it’s time for a quest. She will track down the film, she will impress her neighbor, and she will become a part of movie history: the archivist as ingénue. As she embarks on her grand mission, Ceinwen meets a somewhat bumbling, very charming, 100% English math professor named Matthew, who is as rational as she is dreamy. Together, they will or will not discover the missing reels, will or will not fall in love, and will or will not encounter the obsessives that make up the New York silent film nut underworld. A novel as winning and energetic as the grand Hollywood films that inspired it, Missing Reels is an irresistible, alchemical mix of Nora Ephron and David Nicholls that will charm and delight.

Prophet, Priest and King

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435729900
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Prophet, Priest and King written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel

Author : Larry D. Gragg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144080186X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel written by Larry D. Gragg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing biography recounts the life of the legendary Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, revealing his true role in the development of Las Vegas and debunking some of the common myths about his notoriety. This account of the life of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel follows his beginnings in the Lower East Side of New York to his role in the development of the famous Flamingo Hotel and Casino. Larry D. Gragg examines Siegel's image as portrayed in popular culture, dispels the myths about Siegel's contribution to the founding of Las Vegas, and reveals some of the more lurid details about his life. Unlike previous biographies, this book is the first to make use of more than 2,400 pages of FBI files on Siegel, referencing documents about the reputed gangster in the New York City Municipal Archives and reviewing the 1950–51 testimony before the Senate Committee on organized crime. Chapters cover his early involvement with gangs in New York, his emergence as a favorite among the Hollywood elite in the late 1930s, his lucrative exploits in illegal gambling and horse racing, and his opening of the "fabulous" Flamingo in 1946. The author also draws upon the recollections of Siegel's eldest daughter to reveal a side of the mobster never before studied—the nature of his family life.

Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557122236
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD 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.

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

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435730100
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Film Noir, Detective and Mystery Movies on DVD: A Guide to the Best in Suspense written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-06-27 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Classic Movies The Best and the Worst Pictures to see! Films to avoid!

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312962380
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Classic Movies The Best and the Worst Pictures to see! Films to avoid! 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).

140 All-Time Must-See Movies for Film Lovers Now Available On DVD

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 110575295X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book 140 All-Time Must-See Movies for Film Lovers Now Available On DVD 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.

Silent Movies Plus! More Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329414241
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Silent Movies Plus! More Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD 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).

Fight Sports and American Masculinity

Author : Christopher David Thrasher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786497041
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Fight Sports and American Masculinity written by Christopher David Thrasher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout America's past, some men have feared the descent of their gender into effeminacy, and turned their eyes to the ring in hopes of salvation. This work explains how the dominant fight sports in the United States have changed over time in response to broad shifts in American culture and ideals of manhood, and presents a narrative of American history as seen from the bars, gyms, stadiums and living rooms of the heartland. Ordinary Americans were the agents who supported and participated in fight sports and determined its vision of masculinity. This work counters the economic determinism prevalent in studies of American fight sports, which overemphasize profit as the driving force in the popularization of these sports. The author also disputes previous scholarship's domestic focus, with an appreciation of how American fight sports are connected to the rest of the world.

Silent Films, 1877Ð1996

Author : Robert K. Klepper
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604843
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Silent Films, 1877Ð1996 written by Robert K. Klepper and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-01-21 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Turner Classic Movies Presents Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide

Author : Leonard Maltin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014751682X
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Turner Classic Movies Presents Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide written by Leonard Maltin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to classic films from one of America's most trusted film critics Thanks to Netflix and cable television, classic films are more accessible than ever. Now co-branded with Turner Classic Movies, Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide covers films from Hollywood and around the world, from the silent era through 1965, and from The Maltese Falcon to Singin’ in the Rain and Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Thoroughly revised and updated, and featuring expanded indexes, a list of Maltin’s personal recommendations, and three hundred new entries—including many offbeat and obscure films—this new edition is a must-have companion for every movie lover.

Westerns

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557203341
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Westerns written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Hollywood is no longer producing westerns at the rate of over 100 a year, the western movie enthusiast has over 1,000 classic films available on DVD. This guidebook, written in the same vein as the author's previous "goldmines of information" (to quote one reviewer), "Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD," "Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD," and "British Movie Entertainments on VHS and DVD," is a must-have item for even the casual western movie fan. Over 400 DVDs were examined: 136 are described in exhaustive detail and a further 100 summarized. All 66 Hopalong Cassidy movies are featured and there are chapters on Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, John Wayne, Alan Ladd and Buck Jones as well as a guide to a few of Hollywood's worst westerns.

Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II

Author : James Flood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317639707
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II written by James Flood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II brings together state-of-the-art research and practice on the evolving view of literacy as encompassing not only reading, writing, speaking, and listening, but also the multiple ways through which learners gain access to knowledge and skills. It forefronts as central to literacy education the visual, communicative, and performative arts, and the extent to which all of the technologies that have vastly expanded the meanings and uses of literacy originate and evolve through the skills and interests of the young. A project of the International Reading Association, published and distributed by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. Visit http://www.reading.org for more information about Internationl Reading Associationbooks, membership, and other services.