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World War II Films of the 1940s has been written to provide a comprehensive study of more than two dozen films, made in Great Britain and America from 1940-49. Included are films dealing with the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Complete cast lists are provided, along with film director credits, running time, and synopses of each motion picture. A number of vever before seen photographs are also included. This book is the first in a series of four books dealing with the Second World War.

The aim of this book is to provde coverage of films made during the 1950s dealing with the Second World War. There are a number of sub-genres in the films, such as those dealing with prisoner of war camps (like The Wooden Horse, Albert RN, Stalag 17, The Colditz Story, Bridge On the River Kwai, The One That Got Away, The Camp on Blood Island, Danger Within). While many of the films deal with the Army, the Navy is the focus in films like The Cruel Sea, Above us the Waves, and Battle of the River Plate, while the Air Force features in Angels One Five and Reach for the Sky. Spies and agents...

British Horror Films of the 1960s covers nearly 90 motion pictures made in England between 1960 and 1969.  There are complete cast lists, directorial credits, running times, and a synopsis of each film, along with over two thousand pictures, many never before having been seen.  This is the second in a series of three books on the British Horror film, with an introduction by the late Sir Christopher Lee.

For the first time, a book has been written about the films involving Agatha Christie's famous amateur detective, Miss Jane Marple. Complete cast listings, directorial credits, running times, story synopses and reviews are provided, along with many photographs never seen before. The films cover the period of 1956 to 2013, and include those starring Dame Margaret Rutherford, Joan Hickson, Angela Lansbury, Geraldine McEwen, Julia McKenzie, Dame Gracie Fields and others.

Great Thriller Films provides a look at some four dozen films made between 1941 and 1988, and includes complete cast lists, directorial credits, running times, plot synopses, and pictures, many of the latter which have never been seen anywhere else.  Films included in this book are theose made in Hollywood or Great Britain, ranging from classics like Gaslight (1944) and Key Laro (1948) to more recent ones such as Witness (1985), and The Untouchables (1987).  Directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Winner are represented, and iconic actors such as Humphrey Bogart, Orson...

Mystery films are primarily concerned with solving crimes, most often murders. Detectives are generally heavily featured, whether they are of the private variety or those who work for a police force of some kind. This central character frequently investigates an unsolved crime and unmasks the perpitrator. These films in general conceal the identity of the guilty party almost right up to the end, although some of them will allow the viewer to identify the culprit right from the start and then watch as the police or detective tries to trip him up.

The Films of Alistair MacLean has been written to provide a comprehensive look at the seventeen motion pictures that have been made based on MacLean's novels. Alistair MacLean (1922-1987), the Scottish novelist who wrote some thirty novels, all of them best-sellers, began writing in 1955, and by the early 1970s sales of his books had reached the tens of millions. Seventeen of them have been turned into films, most of which have been extremely successful, both financially and critically. MacLean also wrote the screenplays to several of these films. For the first time in print,...