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  • Sherlock Holmes at Universal (1942-1946) Volume 2
    Kris Allen Marentette / Scott Allen Nollen
    SHERLOCK HOLMES at UniversalMore than 40 years ago, American Scott Allen Nollen [aka 'Doctor Merrivale'] and Canadian Kris Allen Marentette [aka 'Captain Simpson'] became fast friends after sharing their mutual admiration for the 60 Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the classic series of 14 films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce inspired by them.Autho...
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    36,26 €

  • Sherlock Holmes at Universal (1942-1946) Volume 1
    Kris Allen Marentette / Scott Allen Nollen
    SHERLOCK HOLMES at UniversalMore than 40 years ago, American Scott Allen Nollen [aka 'Doctor Merrivale'] and Canadian Kris Allen Marentette [aka 'Captain Simpson'] became fast friends after sharing their mutual admiration for the 60 Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the classic series of 14 films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce inspired by them.Autho...
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    36,20 €

  • Sons of Charlie Chan Volume 1
    Scott Allen Nollen
    Scott Allen Nollen introduces you to: My Three Sons Lee - Jimmy - Tommy Otherwise known as THE SONS OF CHARLIE CHAN Charlie Chan has been recognized by fans and critics as one of the most famous of fictional screen detectives, achieving prominence both in the novels of creator Earl Derr Biggers and, of course, through a series of popular films made throughout the 30s and 40s: T...
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    38,16 €

  • The Body Snatcher
    Scott Allen Nollen
    In 1994, historian Scott Allen Nollen published the critically acclaimed Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen, the only volume dedicated to screen adaptations of the prolific Scottish author’s work. The Body Snatcher provides the same expansive treatment for this classic 1945 'historical horror' film. Opening with a foreword by Gregory William Mank, No...
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    27,67 €

  • Karloff and the East
    Scott Allen Nollen / Yuyun Yuningsih Nollen
    Among Golden Age Hollywood film stars of European heritage known for playing characters from the East--Chinese, Southeast Asians, Indians and Middle Easterners--Anglo-Indian actor Boris Karloff had deep roots there. Based on extensive new research, this biography and career study of Karloff’s 'eastern' films provides a critical examination of 41 features, including many over...
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    81,40 €

  • Warners Wiseguys
    Scott Allen Nollen
    As three of the most prominent actors of the early studio system, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart played an unparalleled role in the rise of the Warner Brothers Studio. These 'Warners Wiseguys' are now virtually synonymous with the studio’s era of gritty gangster films. This study of their interwoven studio-contract careers highlights the similarities o...
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    51,83 €

  • Chester Morris
    Scott Allen Nollen / Yuyun Yuningsih Nollen
     The prodigious but humble scion of a New York theatrical family, Chester Morris acted on Broadway as a teenager and earned an Academy Award nomination for his first role in a Hollywood 'talkie,' Alibi (1929). He became leading man to filmdom’s top female stars and starred in the popular series of 'Boston Blackie' mysteries before creating substantial characters in the theat...
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    66,34 €

  • Takashi Shimura
    Scott Allen A Nollen / Scott Allen Nollen
    Considered one of the finest performers in world cinema, Japanese actor Takashi Shimura (1905-1982) appeared in more than 300 stage, film and television roles during his five-decade career. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with Akira Kurosawa, including major roles in the landmark classics Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954), and for his me...
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    40,30 €

  • Abbott and Costello on the Home Front
    Scott Allen Nollen
    As two of the most popular entertainers of the mid-century film industry, comic greats Bud Abbott and Lou Costello offered an essential balm to the American public following the sorrows of the Great Depression and during the trauma of World War II. This is the first book to focus in detail on the immensely popular wartime films of Abbott and Costello, discussing the producti...
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    43,94 €

  • The Making and Influence of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
    Scott Allen Nollen
    Robert E. Burns, a World War I veteran coerced into taking part in a petty crime in Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to hard labor on a chain gang in 1922. Twice escaping and on the lam for decades, he was aided only by his minister-poet brother, Vincent G. Burns. Their collaborative work, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! was the basis for Darryl F. Zanuck’s and Mer...
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    42,86 €

  • Three Bad Men
    Scott Allen Nollen
    These were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and Ward Bond. The book provides a biography of each and a detailed exploration of Ford’s work as it was intertwined with the lives and work of both Wayne and Bond (whose biography here is the first ever published). The book reveals ...
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    51,95 €

  • Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scott Allen Nollen
    Robert Louis Stevenson’s cinematic legacy is studied in-depth here, with a look at his life and his body of work. From The Sire De Maletroit’s Door (1877) to St. Ives (1896), each adapted story and all relevant film versions are examined, including exhaustive analyses of the 1931 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the 1945 version of The Body Snatcher. A discussion of...
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    41,81 €

  • Paul Robeson
    Scott Allen Nollen
    This is the first book-length study of the 12 films starring African American Renaissance man Paul Robeson (1898-1976). Singer, actor, author, lawyer, athlete, pacifist and civil rights activist, Robeson was also the first African American to receive top billing in motion pictures, delivering unforgettable characterizations in such classics as The Emperor Jones (1933), Sande...
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    58,51 €

  • Louis Armstrong
    Scott Allen Nollen
    Louis Armstrong was not only a virtuoso musician, singer, composer and actor, but also a dedicated writer who carried a typewriter with him on his constant travels around the globe, turning out hundreds of letters and reminiscences. The man never stopped creating. His unique verbal, musical and visual content and style permeated everything he touched. Included in this care...
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    51,38 €

  • Boris Karloff
    Scott Allen Nollen
    This comprehensive analysis of Boris Karloff’s life and career incorporates criticism, in-depth production information and discussions of cinematic themes and characters, with an account of the historical periods and events depicted in the films and the Hollywood era in which they were produced. Each of Karloff’s horror films is examined at length, as well as his contribut...
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    56,40 €

  • Robin Hood
    Scott Allen Nollen
    From Errol Flynn to Kevin Costner to Daffy Duck, the bandit of Sherwood Forest has gone through a variety of incarnations on the way to becoming a cinematic staple. The historic Robin Hood--actually an amalgam of several outlaws of medieval England--was eventually transformed into the romantic and deadly archer-swordsman who 'robbed from the rich to give to the poor.' This i...
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    42,68 €

  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Cinema
    Scott Allen Nollen
    In February 1903, a 30-second film titled Sherlock Holmes Baffled was released by American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, the first known adaptation of the work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Over the years hundreds of adaptation and parodies of Conan Doyle’s works have been released. Though he is most closely associated with Sherlock Holmes, other Conan Doyle works have found ...
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    42,45 €

  • Jethro Tull
    Scott A Nollen / Scott Allen Nollen
    Originally formed by singer-songwriter Ian Anderson in psychedelic 1968, the band Jethro Tull has been recording its own kind of rock and roll and touring the globe for more than three decades. This is a history of the band through the present, written by an acquaintance of several of its members. The book includes a chronology of all of the band’s recordings and informati...
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    42,28 €

  • The Boys
    Scott Allen Nollen
    The Boys provides new ways to view and evaluate the work of this famous comedy team. The initial chapter summarizes the critical reception of the two and compares Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to other contemporary comedians. Brief biographies analyze their early solo films and the development of the team. Special attention is given to the team’s cinematic and comic style, us...
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    43,11 €