Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to Great Crime Movies
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Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to Great Crime Movies
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Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to Great Crime Movies
by Howard Hughes
Product Group:
Book
Publisher:
I B Tauris & Co Ltd (2006-05-26)
ISBN:
1845112199
EAN:
9781845112196
Dewy Decimal #:
791.436556
Paperback
: 288 pages
SKU:
B304-2296
Condition:
New
Comments:
New & Shrinkwrapped. In stock - Immediate despatch from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Really good!
Rating
(4)
Date: 2006-07-17
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I think this is one of the best film guides around, it contains really good background behind the making of these films and his selection of films is absolutely spot on, definitely recommended!
A fantastic read
Rating
(4)
Date: 2006-07-10
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book was such an enjoyable read - the genre of the 'caper' movie has been very thoroughly researched here. I felt that Hughes has deliberately chosen the films to reflect the full spectrum of movies that could be classified as a 'heist' movie and this led me to finding myself reading about films that I would not normally have considered - but it was all the better for that. Some of the detail that was given about the films was almost journalistic in approach - especially when the events in a film were directed to specifically mirror something that had happened in real-life. The book covers 70 years of cinemas' portrayal of bad guys from the machine gunning of Jimmy Cagney in Public Enemy all the way to the 2001 remake of Oceans Eleven touching on Dirty Harry, Bonnie and Clyde, Lethal Weapon and many more in between. I was particularly pleased that my two favorite British gangster flicks were included Get Carter and The Long Good Friday. Again, reading about the stories behind the films, what got left on the cutting room floor, who walked out halfway though production forcing endless reshoots, was fascinating. (Who would have thought that Ray Liotta turned down the part of the Joker in Batman in order to play a mafia wannabe in Goodfellas).
The films deal with all the good storylines that these films hold; Revenge;
Bank Jobs - Rise & Falls; Doomed Love or Private Investigators taking on the
wrong job.
The exhaustive reference section at the back has provided me with a useful list of movies to rent or buy this year. Doubly pleasing is the fact that there is a film season on TCM to accompany the book.
I look forward to Hughes treating other film genres in this manner.
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