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"An almost unheard of combination of virtues for a movie book -- lucid, well-informed, and obviously written in high spirits -- and anyone interested in the subject will want to look at it for himself." -- New York Times Book Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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"America in the movies" by Michael Wood.
Inspiring and intelligent reflections on known (and unknown) classics - and their rediscovered metaphors - from Hollywood. Wood's essays are jewels! And the ideal present for your movie-friends. Hans Keller.
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TYRONE POWER is a dashing young cadet at the Madrid military academy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Gene Kelly, Gone With The Wind, New York, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Fred Astaire, Cary Grant, Quo Vadis, The Ox-Bow Incident, Marilyn Monroe, Mildred Pierce, Pauline Kael, Philip French, Robert Taylor, Barbara Deming, Charlton Heston, Citizen Kane, Gary Cooper, Montgomery Clift, The Big Sleep, Vivien Leigh, William Holden, All About Eve, All Rights Reserved, Anne Baxter New!
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TYRONE POWER is a dashing young cadet at the Madrid military academy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
problem movies, fastest gun Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gene Kelly, Gone With The Wind, New York, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Fred Astaire, Cary Grant, Quo Vadis, The Ox-Bow Incident, Marilyn Monroe, Mildred Pierce, Pauline Kael, Philip French, Robert Taylor, Barbara Deming, Charlton Heston, Citizen Kane, Gary Cooper, Montgomery Clift, The Big Sleep, Vivien Leigh, William Holden, All About Eve, All Rights Reserved, Anne Baxter New!
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- Mr. Arkadin (Panorama de Narrativas) (Spanish Edition) by Orson Welles on page 59, page 121, and page 124
- The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock on page 116, page 122, and page 123
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell on page 33, and page 35
- Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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