This is a follow-up to the enormously successful and critically praised Great Gangster Pictures (Scarecrow, 1976). The authors pick up where the previous volume left off and discuss some 400 genre features, from the very best to the absolute worst, incorporating titles released since 1976 and picking up many titles from earlier decades.
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Michael R. Pitts (MA, journalism), a freelance writer, publishes extensively in cinema magazines and has written or co-authored many books on entertainment, including Famous Movie Detectives, Horror Film Stars, Hollywood and American History, Hollywood on Record: The Film Stars' Discography, The Bible on Film, Western Movies, and The Great...Pictures series with James R. Parish.
James Robert Parish, a Los Angeles-based direct marketing executive, has written or co-authored 65 books, including RKO Gals Hollywood's Great Love Teams, Actors' TV Credits, The Elvis Presley Scrapbook, Hollywood on Hollywood, and the Great...Pictures series with Michael R. Pitts.
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