Teenage Thunder - A Front Row Look at the 1950s Teenpics, McGee Mark Thomas
Автор: Mcgee, Eoin Название: Vitality mark ISBN: 0717192806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780717192809 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2850.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A prescription for feeling energised, invigorated, enthusiastic and optimistic each day. Written by GP and lifestyle-medicine practitioner Dr Mark Rowe, whose own experience of burnout helped him to develop the programme for living with vitality set out in this book.
This is the Hardback version of the revised and expanded edition.
Today's science fiction movies are blessed with obscene budgets and have an army of technicians slaving over the special effects. Back in the 1950s, there were one or two guys doing the effects and the budget for the whole movie was $65,000 or less. The movies were made in ten days or less, in black and white, by people working outside of the studio system.
This book takes a light-hearted (and light-headed) look at those movies, as seen through the eyes of the children who saw them and the actors, directors, producers and writers who made them and some of the political and social events that influenced them. It will take you back to the time when there were two-tone cars, gas stations on every corner and doctors who made house calls. And should it tickle a painful memory of an ill-spent afternoon watching the Daughter of Dr. Jekyll or Fire Maidens from Outer Space take solace in the knowledge that Randy Robertson and I saw every one of these silly movies, usually more than once.
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"I highly recommend it." -- Terror from Beyond the Daves
Superman and the Mole-Men (1951) with George Reeves. The Fly (1958) with Vincent Price. The Last Man on Earth (1964). These low-budget films earned big-profit bonanzas, and the man behind the yields was Robert L. Lippert.
When Spyros Skouras was forced to resign as commander in chief of 20th Century Fox, Darryl F. Zanuck was persuaded to return to the studio to take charge. As the studio was on the brink of disaster, Zanuck put the brakes on every project in the works and fired just about everyone on the lot, except for one man, the only one working for the studio who made their bread-and-butter pictures which, at this point in time, was the only kind of movies the studio could afford to make--and he was Robert L. Lippert.
Lippert produced over 200 movies tailored to the small town exhibitors that had to change their program two or three times a week. They loved him for it. Kansas theater owner Bill Leonard told his fellow exhibitors to ". . . just line up with these Lippert pictures and you and your patrons will be happy." James Clavell--author of Shogun, Andrew McLaglen--director of McLintock, and Sam Fuller--director of Pickup on South Street, got their first breaks in the business from Lippert.
Read about his battle with the Screen Actors Guild, his stormy marriage, and, of course, his movies.
"Compelling, a good read. I found it hard to put down." -Western Clippings
"McGee has performed an invaluable service in rounding up RL's wild celluloid herd into a single corral." -Videoscope
Автор: McGee Mark Thomas Название: Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Making of a Classic ISBN: 159393288X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781593932886 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4598.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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