The Cinema of John Frankenheimer (The International Film Guide Series) [Paperback]

Gerald Pratley (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Zwemmer/Barnes; 1st edition (December 1969)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0498074137
• ISBN-13: 978-0498074134
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,267,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Frankenheimer fans -- hello? Hello?, April 10, 2000

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This review is from: The Cinema of John Frankenheimer (The International Film Guide Series) (Paperback)

Frankenheimer is a hero of mine. I just loved "The Train," "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Seconds." ("Ronin" was pretty good, too!) This long-out-of-print book addresses F's work up through about 1970 or so -- that is, most of the films that are worthwhile (what happened to his talent in the seventies and eighties, anyway?)and does a superb job of piling on info about these little-known masterpieces. Loaded with cool trivia; did you know that the big spectacular wreck in "The Train" destroyed several cameras, and that the air-raid scene consisted of actually blowing up a real rail yard that the French govt. was planning to raze! Good luck tracking down a copy of this -- but it'll be worth the trouble if you love F as much as I do. (Let's just hope his next film is better than "Reindeer Games"!)