The Columbia story / Clive Hirschhorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirschhorn, Clive.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Columbia Pictures--History.

Columbia Pictures.

Columbia Pictures Corporation.

Local Subjects:

Columbia Pictures Corporation.

Genre:

reviews (documents)

Reviews.

History.

Physical Description:

456 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Hamlyn ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Sterling Pub. Co., 1999 (2001 printing)

Summary:

Reviews of the over 3,000 movies released by Columbia since 1924.

It specialized in selling dreams: wildly popular comedies like It Happened One Night and Men in Black. Sweeping epics, including Lawrence of Arabia, and sci-fi blockbuster Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Since 1924, Columbia Pictures has made over 3,000 movies and has become one of the most successful studios of Hollywood's golden age. Every one of those titles appears in this grandly oversize, picture-filled book, along with a synopsis, casting, lively critical commentary, and running time. Some of Hollywood's brightest stars--in front of and behind the camera--appear, including Clark Gable, Rita Hayworth, Clint Eastwood, Dustin Hoffman, Will Smith, Brad Pitt, Kate Winslet, Frank Capra, and Steven Spielberg. Plus: commentary on the studio's operation in this corporate age; sister company TriStar; and every Columbia film that won, or received a nomination for, an Oscar.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

The Early Years

1930-1939

1940-1949

1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

1990-1998

Films Released by Columbia in the U.S

But Not in the U.K.

Serials

Short Series

Westerns

Cartoons

Shorts

Documentaries

British films

Foreign and independant films

TriStar

The Oscars

Columbia

Sony Picture Classics

Index of Personnel

Index of Films

Notes:

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

0600598365

9780600598367

OCLC:

42445460

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