From the moment the cinema first began to tell stories, the exploits of the Old West have had a favoured place with film-makers and audiences alike. This unique reference book covers seventy years of Western films, from "The Great Train Robbery" (1903) to recent releases, through listings of the stars, directors, supporting players, writers, producers, composers, cameramen, stuntmen and others who have helped make the Western such a prolific, enjoyable and artistically stimulating form of cinema. There are also numerous entries for famous Western authors recording the film versions of their work and more than thirty listings of the celebrated real-life Westerners with a record of the films in which they were seen and the players who portrayed them. Critic Philip French, in his new book "Westerns," described the first edition of this book (published in 1967 and long out of print) as "an accurate and fairly comprehensive index, invaluable to the student of the genre. A revised edition is overdue, and would be welcome." This is that revised edition, now far more comprehensive and with a new and improved range of illustrations, stoutly bound to withstand heavy usage.

The Western

Eyles, Allen

A.S. Barnes and Co.

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The complete book of the Appaloosa

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Haddle, Jan

Pets & Animal Care

Dust jacket notes: "Here is a book for anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of Hollywood's greatest star, a book that will enthrall all the fans of 'the Duke' or 'Big John' with its wealth of pictures, fact, and comment. The author describes the evolution of Wayne's career from an extra in the silent period to star of the early sound Western, The Big Trail, through years of grinding out modest B Westerns to the enduring stardom that followed his portrayal of the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach. The development of Wayne's screen image is brilliantly followed and tribute is paid to the actor's very real acting accomplishments in such films as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Red River, The Quiet Man, and True Grit. Louis Brooks, famous star of the twenties, provides a short but memorable reminiscence of meeting Wayne in the thirties, and there is a chapter devoted to the star's working relationship with other actors and directors. This book also provides exhaustive detail about each of Wayne's films with extended casts and much other invaluable, hard-to-find information, resulting in the first totally reliable guide to Wayne's career, both as an actor and producer. And there is a lavish array of illustrations, carefully selected to provide contrast and including such rarities as a special frame enlargement of Wayne's first known appearance as a film extra. In all, this book is a richly rewarding study of an outstanding subject."

John Wayne And The Movies

Hardcover 1976 223p. 12.50"x9.75"x0.80" The Army's First Helicopter; Futher Developments; Here it,fly it; The GYROPLANE; Eyes for the big Guns; Back to the NACA; The Army's first rotary-wing-aircraft School; The army's Second helicopter and more. Many pictures.

The helicopter

Engineering & Transportation

GREGORY

Transportation

The Complete Book of Violets

Coon, Nelson With Georgianne Giffen

Gardening & Landscape Design

Foster Hirsch?s Dark Side of the Screen is by far the most thorough and entertaining study of the themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, directors, and films in this genre ever published. From Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk, Robert Aldrich, and Howard Hawkes to Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, and Paul Schrader, the noir themes of dread, paranoia, steamy sex, double-crossing women, and menacing cityscapes have held a fascination. The features that make Burt Lancaster, Joan Crawford, Robert Mitchum, and Humphrey Bogart into noir heroes and heroines are carefully detailed here, as well as those camera angles, lighting effects, and story lines that characterize Fritz Lang, Samuel Fuller, and Orson Welles as noir directors.For the current rediscovery of film noir, this comprehensive history with its list of credits to 112 outstanding films and its many illustrations will be a valuable reference and a source of inspiration for further research.

The dark side of the screen: Film noir

Humor & Entertainment

Hirsch, Foster

Movies

Moving pictures: An annotated guide to selected film literature, with suggestions for the study of film

Sheahan, Eileen

Reference

The Medical Implications of Karate Blows

Adams. Brian

Assembles statistics and details on the histories, rules, lore, and champions of nearly eighty sports

The encyclopedia of sports

Frank G Menke

The finest automobiles the world has ever seen were produced during the 1920s and early 1930s. For one thing, the choice of truly fine cars was much greater than at any time since. There were a dozen fine chassis being built in America, and those who wished could select from at least another dozen from abroad. The best of these were fitted with coachwork form a number of fine body builders here or in Europe. Competition led not only to improvement in design but to the development of quality to the highest standards. There were a number of small to medium sized manufacturers of both chassis and bodies, staffed by master craftsmen, who were dedicated to the ideal of building the best rather than simply the most. Most custom car building businesses have long since been out of business, and their records have been lost or destroyed.

The Custom Body Era

Pfau, Hugo

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