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The memoirs of a producer who recalls eight decades in cinema, and discusses the working methods behind films such as Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Red River, Rio Bravo, The Big Sleep and Only Angels Have Wings. Coincides with the 1996 centenary of cinema. ... Read more

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Adapted from the story by Robert E. Howard, creator of the legendary character CONAN THE BARBARIAN! Cormac FitzGeoffrey, a wandering warrior born and bred on the battlefield, is a renowned fighter, a ruthless adversary, and a man that is no stranger to the ways of bloodshed and violence. Cormac counts his friends on only one hand, so when he learns that his most recent liege has been murdered; nothing will stop his quest for revenge. By oath, a path of vengeance will be marked by the blood of his enemies. Featuring covers by fan-favorite THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN artist Joe Jusko! ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : John Ford, Budd Boetticher, Robert Aldrich, Howard Hawks, Joseph Kane, Raoul Walsh, Anthony Mann, Delmer Daves, Sam Peckinpah, John Sturges, André de Toth, R.g. Springsteen, John Hillcoat, Andrew V. Mclaglen. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : John Ford (nom de naissance John Martin Feeney) est un réalisateur américain, également producteur, né le 1 février 1894 à Cape Elizabeth près de Portland (Maine), mort le 31 août 1973 à Palm Desert (Californie). Il a été quatre fois lauréat de l'Oscar du meilleur réalisateur (seul cinéaste à avoir réussi le quadruplé). John Ford est considéré comme l'un des réalisateurs les plus importants de la période classique d'Hollywood (de la fin des années 1920 à la fin des années 1960). De tous les grands cinéastes américains il est celui dont l'influence est la plus considérable. Sa carrière embrasse celle des studios puisqu'il arrive à Hollywood au moment où les grandes majors se mettent en place et réalise son dernier film alors que ces majors commencent à être dirigées par des financiers. Ford fut admiré et respecté par les grands patrons d'Hollywood dont il fut souvent l'ami : il tournait vite et respectait les budgets. Malgré cela, il se considérait comme un salarié surpayé par ces studios pour faire des films dénués de son style afin de ne pas perturber les affaires de ses employeurs. Il fut l'un des réalisateurs effectuant le moins de prises par plan (ratio de 2,5), cela lui permettant de garder la mainmise sur le montage des films, les prises alternatives n'existant tout simplement pas. « Nous devons à John Ford le droit accordé au metteur en scène de superviser le montage » reconnait Fred Zinnemann. Ford mit sa notoriété au service du syndicat des metteurs ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary.Chapters: Rio Bravo, Scarface, the Thing From Another World, His Girl Friday, Bringing up Baby, Sergeant York, Viva Villa!, Red River, the Big Sleep, Twentieth Century, to Have and Have Not, Rio Lobo, Come and Get It, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Air Force, Howard Hawks Filmography, the Criminal Code, Barbary Coast, I Was a Male War Bride, El Dorado, the Dawn Patrol, Ball of Fire, Man's Favorite Sport?, Hatari!, a Song Is Born, the Outlaw, Land of the Pharaohs, Only Angels Have Wings, Monkey Business, Ceiling Zero, the Big Sky, O. Henry's Full House, Today We Live, the Prizefighter and the Lady, Tiger Shark, Fig Leaves, Red Line 7000, a Girl in Every Port, the Crowd Roars. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 184. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Big Sleep is a 1946 film noir directed by Howard Hawks, the first film version of Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as the female lead in a film about the "process of a criminal investigation, not its results." William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman co-wrote the screenplay. In 1997, the U.S. Library of Congress deemed this film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," and added it to the National Film Registry. Private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) calls on new client General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) at his Los Angeles mansion. The wealthy general wants to resolve gambling debts his daughter, Carmen (Martha Vickers), owes to bookseller Arthur Gwynn Geiger. As Marlowe is leaving, General Sternwood's older daughter, Mrs. Vivian Rutledge (Lauren Bacall), stops him. She suspects her father's true motive for calling in a detective is to find his friend and right-hand man Sean Regan, who had m...http://booksllc.net/?id=1645598 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Howard (Winchester) Hawks, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1566 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Chapters: Joan Crawford, Doris Day, Marlon Brando, Milton Berle, Dalton Trumbo, Val Kilmer, Howard Hawks, Ginger Rogers, Michael Nesmith, Danielle Steel, Henry Fonda, Theodore Dreiser, King Vidor, H. R. Haldeman, Mary Baker Eddy, Robert Duvall, Joseph Cornell, Anna May Wong, Thomas M. Davis, Henry Paulson, Chris Shays, David Dreier, Clara Clemens, Septimus J. Hanna, Carol Channing, Bliss Knapp, Owen Brewster, Stansfield Turner, Dick Powell, Alfre Woodard, William R. Rathvon, Bob Goodlatte, Charles H. Percy, Kay Kyser, John Ehrlichman, John H. Cade, Jr., Mina Loy, William H. Webster, Lamar S. Smith, Jared Y. Sanders, Jr., Leatrice Joy, W. S. Van Dyke, John David Carson, Jean Stapleton, Egil Krogh, David Liebe Hart, Georgia Engel, Scott Mccallum, Adin Brown, Dody Goodman, Ralph Lawrence Carr, Kitty Cheatham, Virginia Harris, Bette Nesmith Graham, Laurance Doyle, Georgia Hale, Thomas P. Griesa, Augusta Emma Stetson, Malcolm Frager, Kenny Baker, Robert Peel, Edith Roberts, John D. Works, Blanche Calloway, Helen St. John, Marion Bloom, Fred B. Balzar. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 462. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 February 2, 1961) was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, and radio. Born near the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese-American parents, Wong became infatuated with the movies and began acting in films at an early age. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first movies made in color and Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Wong became a fashion icon, and by 1924 had achieved international star...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=781005 ... Read more

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This Halcyon Classics ebook is the pulp adventure THE HAWK OF THE HILLS by Robert E. Howard, an El-Borak adventure.

El Borak leads the Afridi tribe in a war against the Orakzai and their chief Afdal Khan in early twentieth century Afghanistan. The war brings in British agents from across the border and has Russian influence in the region behind it.

Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) is best known today for creating the sword-and-sorcery hero Conan, subject of two movies and dozens of books.However, during his short life Howard also published stories in a number of other genres.In addition to fantasy, Howard wrote boxing stories, westerns, detective stories, horror and created an number of compelling characters such as Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, El Borak, Steve Costigan, Pike Bearfield, King Kull, and Conan the Cimmerian.Howard committed suicide in 1936.
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Howard Hawks, Dan Schutte, Kris Kelderman, Ryan Zeinert, Kenneth E. Stumpf, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Marcus Lee Hansen, Elmer J. Burr, George Bergstrom, Konrad Tuchscherer, John Fine, Samuel A. Cook, John Whitlinger, Jack Ankerson, Charles B. Clark, Michael Ellis, Donna J. Seidel, Rich Loiselle, Kenneth John Conant, Philip Daly, Tami Whitlinger, Wayne Kreklow, Dan Meyer. Excerpt:Charles Benjamin Clark (August 24, 1844 September 10, 1891) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin . Charles B. Clark Born in Theresa, New York , Clark attended the common schools. He moved to Wisconsin in 1855 with his widowed mother, who settled in Neenah, Wisconsin . Enlisted in Company I, Twenty-first Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, at its organization, and served with the same during the Civil War . He engaged in mercantile pursuits, banking, and the manufacture of paper, notably Clark was a founder of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation. He served as mayor of Neenah 1880-1883. He served as member of the city council of Neenah 1883-1885. He served as member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1885. Clark was elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress. He died in Watertown, New York , while on a visit to his old home, September 10, 1891. He was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Wisconsin . Sources United States House of Representatives A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Dan Meyer (January 1, 1949) is a Wisconsin politician, legislator, and businessman. Born in Neenah, Wisconsin , Meyer graduated from University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and was a Vietnam War Veteran. Meyer was the director of the Eagle River, Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce and was mayor ... ... Read more

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Chapters: Daniel Dennett, Daniel Webster, Gore Vidal, Howard Hawks, Charles C. Krulak, John Irving, Tim Wirth, Carlos Romero Barceló, Benmont Tench, Thomas Bulfinch, George Bancroft, Booth Tarkington, Dan Brown, Pierre S. Du Pont, Iv, James Thomas Aubrey, Jr., Sam Fuld, Harrison Pope, Dave Douglas, Franklin Pierce, Robert Benchley, John Negroponte, M. Scott Peck, Jay Rockefeller, Dudley Leavitt, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Judd Gregg, Ned Lamont, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Stewart Brand, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Gifford Pinchot, Old Crow Medicine Show, Drew Pearson, List of Phillips Exeter Academy Alumni, Kent Conrad, George Plimpton, Robert Todd Lincoln, George Gilder, Greg Craig, Roland Merullo, Paul Klebnikov, David Mumford, George W. S. Trow, Nicholas Katzenbach, Richard S. Arnold, Peter Benchley, George Bradburn, Peter R. Orszag, James Agee, Lewis Cass, Chester E. Finn, Jr., Mark Zuckerberg, John Adams Dix, John Pittenger, Donald Hall, Larz Anderson, Robert Thurman, Kenneth Bacon, Morris S. Arnold, John K. Fairbank, Hart Day Leavitt, Hayford Peirce, Corliss Lamont, Soce, the Elemental Wizard, Catherine Disher, Mike Morrison, John Sherburne Sleeper, Lex Barker, H. John Heinz Iii, Michael Von Clemm, George E. Kimball, Lee Mcclung, Jared Sparks, Robert Bates, John M. Walker, Jr., Werner Janssen, Adam Guettel, John G. Palfrey, Thomas Wilson Dorr, David Eisenhower, Edward Stillings, Joyce Maynard, Paul Sweezy, David Hall, Michael Cerveris, Alessandro Nivola, John P. Hale, Ralph B. Strassburger, Charles Horman, Donold Lourie, Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., Jess Sweetser, Samuel S. Conner, David Rockefeller, Jr., Kenji Yoshino, Leverett Saltonstall I, Burke Marshall, Robert D. Farquhar, Walter Darby Bannard, Pete Coors, Trish Regan, Dwight Macdonald, David Darst, Richard Walker Bolling, Greg Daniels, Hodding Carter Iii, Christopher Columbus Langdell, Norris Cotton, Rusty Magee, John Knowles, Andrew Sudduth, Terry Goddard, Robert D. Richardson...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=51613 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Chérie, Je Me Sens Rajeunir, Boule de Feu, La Dame Du Vendredi, Les Hommes Préfèrent Les Blondes, Scarface, Air Force, Rio Bravo (Film, 1959), Seuls Les Anges Ont Des Ailes, L'impossible Monsieur Bébé, le Port de L'angoisse, El Dorado (Film, 1966), La Terre Des Pharaons, le Grand Sommeil (Film, 1946), La Rivière Rouge, Les Chemins de La Gloire (Film, 1936), Après Nous le Déluge (Film, 1933), La Captive Aux Yeux Clairs, Hatari !, Rio Lobo, Train de Luxe, Sergent York, le Sport Favori de L'homme, si Bémol et Fa Dièse, La Patrouille de L'aube (Film, 1930), le Vandale, le Harpon Rouge, Ligne Rouge 7000. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Chérie, je me sens rajeunir (Monkey Business) est un film américain de Howard Hawks sorti en 1952. Barnaby Fulton est un chimiste très préoccupé par une formule qu'il ne trouve pas: cela a des incidences sur ses soirées avec sa femme Edwina. Au laboratoire, un des chimpanzés, ayant un âge correspondant à 84 de nos années, se comporte comme un tout jeune animal. Il s'agit en effet d'une expérience sur l'âge en général et le rajeunissement en particulier. L'espoir est grand quant à cette prochaine découverte, surtout pour le directeur Oxley, 70 ans, manifestement impressionné lorsque le chimpanzé en question, un mâle, s'approche très excité de la cage où se trouve une femelle. Comme l'espoir est grand de retrouver les forces de la jeunesse, Oxley se propose même comme premier cobaye humain. Il s'avère ensuite que les habits des deux animaux avaient été échangés par erreur et donc que le singe très vivace était en fait la femelle de 6 mois. Un peu déçu, Barnaby continue ses mélanges chimiques et autres expérimentations. Seule un moment, la chimpanzé s'amuse à concocter e...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more