These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards
These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards

Author: John Reid

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2005-11-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1411658469

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This selection of movies that won no Hollywood awards includes some that are famous like Garbo's "Queen Christina" and "A Woman of Affairs," William Wyler's "Carrie" and "Detective Story," Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," John Farrow's "California," Hitchcock's "Young and Innocent," John Ford's "Wee Willie Winkie," Albert Lewin's "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman," Mae West's "She Done Him Wrong," and DeMille's original version of "The Ten Commandments"; some that deserve to be famous like "Tonight and Every Night," "Sunnyside Up," "Ambassador Bill," "Diplomaniacs," "The Nitwits," "Fallen Angel" and "Rhythm on the Range"; and some that had no chance at all like "The Noose Hangs High," "Words and Music," "The Bohemian Girl," and 'Wagon Wheels Westward." Special added feature: a monograph on one of Hollywood's greatest directors, Henry Hathaway.

Hollywood Movie Musicals
Hollywood Movie Musicals

Author: John Howard Reid

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1411697626

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When most people think of movie musicals, films like "Singin' in the Rain", "Sound of Music", "The Red Shoes", "On the Town", "White Christmas", "Ziegfeld Follies", "Top Hat", "Funny Face" and "Funny Girl" immediately come to mind. Such films are included in this book, as are many of the works of major stars, including Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Betty Grable, Shirley Temple, Julie Andrews, Elvis Presley, Lucille Ball, Alice Faye, Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Nelson Eddy, Doris Day, Dick Powell, Betty Hutton, Eleanor Powell, and Al Jolson. But attention is also drawn to less lavishly produced but very pleasant musical offerings from both major and minor studios (including perhaps the finest "B" musical ever made). In all, 125 pictures are reviewed and detailed with full cast and technical credits, plus songs and musical numbers, awards, release dates and other essential background information.

Hollywood Classics Title Index to All Movies Reviewed in
Hollywood Classics Title Index to All Movies Reviewed in

Author: John Howard Reid

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-10-27

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 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".

Success in the Cinema MoneyMaking Movies
Success in the Cinema MoneyMaking Movies

Author: John Howard Reid

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1847280889

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Basically, there are three measures of success in the cinema. First off are pictures like "The Crowd" and "Applause" that achieve rave reviews and even go on to win awards, but don't recover their negative costs. Then there are the movies the critics hate, but the public enjoys. All three versions of "Back Street", for instance. Finally come the pictures everyone loves, like "From Here To Eternity" or "Sunset Boulevard". In the annals of success in Hollywood's Golden Age, one name stands out above all others: Cecil B. DeMille. His famous pictures reviewed here include both versions of "The Buccaneer", "The Crusades", "Sign of the Cross", "The Story of Dr Wassell" and "Union Pacific". But the book also notes a DeMille "B" movie that tied up a fair amount of money but proved so unpopular it was released in some territories as a support. The book also covers some of Hollywood's other disastrous failures, including the M-G-M movie that cost over $4 million to make and returned virtually nothing.

Hollywood's Classic Comedies Featuring Slapstick, Romance, Music, Glamour Or Screwball Fun!
Hollywood's Classic Comedies Featuring Slapstick, Romance, Music, Glamour Or Screwball Fun!

Author: John Howard Reid

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-06-26

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1430314877

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200 films reviewed and rated, covering all genres of movie comedy from slapstick to sardonic, from madness to manners. Featured comedians include Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, Bob Hope, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Bing Crosby, The Three Stooges, Eddie Cantor, Charlie Chaplin, Jacques Tati, Sid Field, The Crazy Gang, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jack Hulbert, Joe E. Brown, Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, Clifton Webb, Red Skelton, Ronald Shiner, Cecil Kellaway, Norman Wisdom, Frankie Howerd, Toto, Arthur Askey, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Claudette Colbert, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Joan Davis, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Stanley Holloway, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake.

More New Light On Movie Bests
More New Light On Movie Bests

Author: John Howard Reid

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-12-04

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1300476141

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Award-winning movie critic, John Howard Reid, provides full details and expert reviews for over 80 classic films which he feels would qualify as some of the best that Hollywood and other national studios have produced to date. Among these treasures are such movies as Beau Geste, Blues in the Night, Camille, Duck Soup, Fedora, The Great Gatsby, King Kong, The Shepherd of the Hills, Tales of Manhattan, Tom Jones, Trade Winds, Ace in the Hole/The Big Carnival, Bicycle Thieves, Trio, Crossfire, The Citadel, French Connection, Folly To Be Wise, Foreign Correspondent, Inherit the Wind, The Hound of the Baskervilles. (And the good news is that nearly all of the 80 are now available on DVD).

Great Hollywood Westerns
Great Hollywood Westerns

Author: John Howard Reid

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2006-09-20

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1430309687

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A round-up of favorite westerns from "Aces and Eights" to "River of No Return," from "Colorado Sundown" to "Under California Stars," from "Big Calibre" to "The Yodellin' Kid from Pine Ridge." Featured stars include Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Bill Boyd, Charles Starrett, Buck Jones, Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, Rex Bell, Tex Ritter, Ken Maynard, Tim McCoy, Jack Perrin, Johnny Mack Brown, Robert Mitchum, Randolph Scott.

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

Author: John Howard Reid

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-05-01

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 110575295X

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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.

Movie Westerns
Movie Westerns

Author: John Howard Reid

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2005-12

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1411666100

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No less than 150 classic western movies are surveyed, ranging from super productions like "The Big Country", "Destry Rides Again", "The Mark of Zorro", "Red River", "The Searchers", "The Spoilers" and "Unconquered" to the output of such popular "B" western film stars as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Randolph Scott, William Boyd, Johnny Mack Brown, Tim Holt and Wayne Morris. Plus a big tip of the sombrero to Charles Starrett and John Wayne.

Hollywood Classics Index, Books 1-16: A-Z
Hollywood Classics Index, Books 1-16: A-Z

Author: John Reid

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2006-05-14

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1411692551

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This cumulative index to all the films detailed and reviewed in the "Hollywood Classics" series to date, features both original release and alternative titles, together with the year of production. This book is lavishly illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of original movie posters, many from the author's private collection.