Böcker av Michael R. Pitts

Founded by Robert M. Savini in 1933, Astor Pictures Corporation distributed hundreds of films in its 32 years of production. The company distributed over 150 first run features in addition to the numerous re-releases for which it became famous. This volume provides the first in-depth look at Astor Pictures with thorough coverage of its releases.

Covers Charles Bronson's entire output in film and on television, and includes many film stills and photographs. Alphabetical entries list film or episode, complete cast and credits, and year of release. Accompanying each entry's plot synopsis and discussion is a survey of the critical responses to the work.

The western genre touched on ideals of honor, conquest, and freedom of spirit, and its stories packed cinemas of the early sound era. This volume covers 30 western film series produced from the mid 1930s to the early 1950s. It contains a plot synopsis and analysis of each series' place in cinema history, many photographs and illustrations and a detailed filmography.

King Kong and The Thing from Another World are among the most popular horror and science fiction films of all time and both were made by RKO Radio Pictures. Between 1929 and 1956, RKO released over 140 genre features: this volume covers these movies in detail with critical and historical analysis, in-depth plot synopsis and numerous contemporary reviews.

From Allied Pictures Corporation to Willis Kent Production, 55 Poverty Row Studios are given histories in this book. The histories include critical commentary on the studio's output and a filmography of all titles released from 1929 through 1940.

Covers more than 200 Columbia feature films within these genres, among them Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Earth vs. The Flying Saucers and The Revenge of Frankenstein. Also discussed are films starring horror icons Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and John Carradine.

John Carradine, Jamie Lee Curtis, Boris Karloff, Bella Lugosi, Jack Palance and Vincent Price are just a few of the 80 horror film stars that are covered in this major standard reference work.