In this the second book of the Ackerman Archives SEries on the reconstruction of lost films Philip J. Riley again provides film historians and movie fans with an innovative preservation of legendary lost silent films.
Born January 21, 1948
After 15 years as a professional musician (Philip J Riley played on 8 Grammy Award albums) - He switched to journalism when he found out that many silent films were lost and that the American Screenwriter was falling through the cracks of American Literary History - He wrote a series of Books all containing the origianl shooting scripts to promote awareness of the great American art, that of Screenwriter: For MGM a series on Lost Films like the 1927 "London After Midnight" and his Universal FilmScript Series which also included acknowledgments for the photograhers, designers, directors, musicians and other cast and crew members who were almost forgotten today. This series includes Classic Universal Titles.
His third series is an Alternate History of Classic Monster films; which contain the rare "lost" scripts for legenday titles such as: James Whale's Dracula's Daughter starring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff as Cagliostro and The Invisable Man, Lon Chaney as Dracula, Lon Chaney Jr in Wolfman vs Dracula. His publisher, BearManor media is now owner of MagicImage Film books and will be reprinting older volumes as well as continuing with new titles. It should be noted that Gregory Mank provided the production background on many of the titles and also George Turner, ASC magazine's editor.
His fourth series "NightMare Series" consists of reprints of original 50s and 60s horror film movie tie-ins novels by authors Dean Owen, Eunice Sudak, John Burke and others in titles, such as "Brides of Dracula', "The Revenge of Frankenstein" etc., and will continue with American International and Hammer Films titles, where the original pulp paper is deterorating, thus continuing their shelf life into the new century.
