Magill's survey of cinema : English language films : first series / edited by Frank N. Magill ; associate editors, Patricia King Hanson, Stephen L. Hanson.

A survey of over 500 movies--from The Jazz singer to Kramer vs. Kramer--giving an account of the story line along with an examination of the directing, acting, cinematography, editing, etc. in each.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Magill, Frank N. (Frank Northen), 1907-1997
Language:English
Published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Salem Press, 1980.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Reviews.
Genre:
Reviews.
Physical Description:4 volumes ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • V.I. Abe Lincoln in Illinois
  • Adam's rib
  • The adventures of Robin Hood
  • The adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Advise and consent
  • The African Queen
  • Ah, wilderness!
  • Alfie
  • Alice Adams
  • Alien
  • All about Eve
  • All quiet on the Western Front
  • All that jazz
  • All the President's men
  • American graffiti
  • An American in Paris
  • The Americanization of Emily
  • And then there were none
  • Angels with dirty faces
  • Animal crackers
  • Anna and the King of Siam
  • Anna Karenina
  • Annie Hall
  • The apartment
  • Apocalypse now
  • The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
  • Around the world in 80 days
  • Arsenic and old lace
  • The awful truth
  • The bad and the beautiful
  • Bad day at Black Rock
  • Ball of fire
  • The band wagon
  • The bank dick
  • Barry Lyndon
  • Beau Geste
  • Becket
  • The beguiled
  • Being there
  • Ben-Hur
  • The best years of our lives
  • The big knife
  • The big sleep
  • Billy Budd
  • Birdman of Alcatraz
  • The bitter tea of General Yen
  • Black narcissus
  • Blackmail
  • Blazing saddles
  • Blithe spirit
  • Blow-up
  • Body and soul
  • The body snatcher
  • Bombshell
  • Bonnie and Clyde
  • Born yesterday
  • The boy with green hair
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • Breaking away
  • The bride of Frankenstein
  • The bridge on the river Kwai
  • Brief encounter
  • Bright victory
  • Bringing up baby
  • The Broadway melody
  • Broadway melody of 1940
  • Broken arrow
  • Buck privates
  • Bullitt
  • Bus stop
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid
  • Cabaret
  • Cabin in the sky
  • The Caine Mutiny
  • Call Northside 777
  • Camille
  • Captains courageous
  • Carefree
  • Carnal knowledge
  • Carousel
  • Carry on nurse
  • Casablanca
  • Cat on a hot tin roof
  • Cat people
  • Cavalcade
  • Champagne for Caesar
  • Charade
  • Charly
  • The children's hour
  • Chinatown
  • A Christmas carol
  • Cimarron
  • The citadel
  • Citizen Kane
  • City lights
  • Cleopatra
  • Close encounters of the third kind
  • Coal miner's daughter
  • Come back, little Sheba
  • Coming home
  • Compulsion
  • Cool hand Luke
  • The corn is green
  • The country girl
  • The court jester
  • Craig's wife
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Daddy long legs
  • Dark victory
  • Darling
  • Dawn patrol
  • Days of wine and roses
  • Death of a salesman
  • Death takes a holiday
  • The deer hunter
  • Deliverance
  • Destry rides again
  • Dial M for murder
  • Dinner at eight
  • The dirty dozen
  • Dirty Harry
  • Dr. Ehrlich's magic bullet
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Dr. Strangelove
  • Dr. Zhivago
  • Dodsworth
  • Dog day afternoon
  • Double indemnity
  • Dracula
  • Drums along the Mohawk
  • East of Eden.
  • V. II. Easter parade
  • Easy rider
  • Elmer Gantry
  • The enchanted cottage
  • The exorcist
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Fantasia
  • Far from the madding crowd
  • Farewell, my lovely
  • A farewell to arms
  • Fiddler on the roof
  • Film
  • Fire over England
  • Five easy pieces
  • Flaming star
  • Flying down to Rio
  • Follow the fleet
  • For whom the bell tolls
  • Foreign correspondent
  • 42nd Street
  • Four feathers
  • Frankenstein
  • The French connection
  • From here to eternity
  • From Russia with love
  • The front page
  • Funny girl
  • A funny thing happened on the way to the forum
  • Fury
  • Gaslight
  • The gay divorcee
  • Gentleman's agreement
  • Gentlemen prefer blondes
  • Giant
  • Gigi
  • Gilda
  • Girl crazy
  • The go-between
  • The Godfather
  • The Godfather part II
  • Going my way
  • Golden boy
  • Gone with the wind
  • Goodbye Columbus
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • The graduate
  • Grand Hotel
  • The grapes of wrath
  • The great dictator
  • The great escape
  • Great expectations
  • The great Gatsby
  • The great McGinty
  • The greatest show on Earth
  • The guns of Navarone
  • Hallelujah!
  • Hamlet
  • A hard day's night
  • Harold and Maude
  • Harvey
  • Heaven can wait
  • Heaven can wait
  • The heiress
  • Hell's Angels
  • Here comes Mr. Jordan
  • Hester Street
  • High noon
  • High Sierra
  • His girl Friday
  • Hobson's choice
  • Holiday
  • Horror of Dracula
  • The hospital
  • The hound of the Baskervilles
  • House of wax
  • How green was my valley
  • Hud
  • Humoresque
  • The hunchback of Notre Dame
  • The hurricane
  • The hustler
  • I am a camera
  • I am a fugitive from a chain gang
  • I married a witch
  • I see a dark stranger
  • I want to live!
  • The importance of being earnest
  • In name only
  • In old Chicago
  • In the heat of the night
  • In which we serve
  • The incredible shrinking man
  • The informer
  • Interiors
  • Invasion of the body snatchers
  • It happened one night
  • It's a wonderful life
  • Jane Eyre
  • Jaws
  • The jazz singer
  • Jezebel
  • Johnny Guitar
  • The Jolson story
  • Julius Caesar
  • Key Largo
  • Kind hearts and coronets
  • A kind of loving
  • The King and I
  • King Kong
  • King of Hearts
  • King of Kings
  • King Rat
  • Klute
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
  • The L-shaped room
  • The lady Eve
  • The lady vanishes
  • The ladykillers
  • The last detail
  • The last hurrah
  • Laura
  • The Lavender Hill Mob
  • The lawless breed
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Leave her to Heaven
  • Letter from an unknown woman
  • The life of Emile Zola
  • Lifeboat
  • Limelight
  • Little Big Man
  • The little foxes
  • Little women
  • The littlest Rebel
  • The loneliness of the long distance runner.
  • V. III. Long day's journey into night
  • The long voyage home
  • Lost horizon
  • The lost weekend
  • Louisiana story
  • Love finds Andy Hardy
  • Love in the afternoon
  • Love me tonight
  • The love parade
  • Love with the proper stranger
  • Madame Curie
  • The magnificent Ambersons
  • The magnificent seven
  • The major and the minor
  • The male animal
  • The Maltese falcon
  • A man for all seasons
  • The man in the white suit
  • The man who shot Liberty Valance
  • The man who would be king
  • Manhattan
  • The mark of Zorro
  • Marnie
  • Marty
  • M*A*S*H
  • Meet John Doe
  • Meet me in St. Louis
  • Midnight cowboy
  • Mildred Pierce
  • Million dollar legs
  • Million dollar mermaid
  • Min and Bill
  • The miracle of Morgan's Creek
  • Les miserables
  • The misfits
  • Mister Roberts
  • Mr. Skeffington
  • Mr. Smith goes to Washington
  • Mrs. Miniver
  • Modern Times
  • Mogambo
  • Monkey business
  • Monkey business
  • The more the merrier
  • Morning glory
  • Moulin Rouge
  • The mouse that roared
  • Murder, my sweet
  • Mutiny on the bounty
  • My fair lady
  • My favorite wife
  • My man Godfrey
  • Nashville
  • Naughty Marietta
  • Network
  • Never give a sucker an even break
  • A night at the opera
  • The night of the hunter
  • A night to remember
  • Nightmare Alley
  • Ninotchka
  • No highway in the sky
  • None but the lonely heart
  • Norma Rae
  • Nothing sacred
  • The nutty professor
  • O lucky man!
  • The odd couple
  • Of human bondage
  • Of mice and men
  • Oklahoma!
  • Old acquaintance
  • Oliver!
  • Oliver Twist
  • On the town
  • On the waterfront
  • One flew over the cuckoo's nest
  • One hour with you
  • 100 men and a girl
  • One night of love
  • Only angels have wings
  • Our daily bread
  • Out of the past
  • The ox-bow incident
  • The paper chase
  • The parent trap
  • Passport to Pimlico
  • Patterns
  • Patton
  • Performance
  • Petulia
  • Peyton place
  • The phantom of the opera
  • The phantom of the opera
  • The Philadelphia story
  • The picture of Dorian Gray
  • Pillow talk
  • The pink panther
  • Pinky
  • A place in the sun
  • The plainsman
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Portrait of Jennie
  • The Poseidon adventure
  • The postman always rings twice
  • The power and the glory
  • The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • The prisoner of Zenda
  • The private life of Henry VIII
  • The private lives of Elizabeth and Essex
  • The producers
  • Psycho
  • The public enemy
  • Pygmalion
  • Queen Christina
  • The quiet man
  • Quo vadis
  • Rain
  • The rainmaker
  • A raisin in the sun
  • Rasputin and the Empress
  • The razor's edge
  • Rebecca
  • Red dust
  • The red shoes
  • Requiem for a heavyweight
  • Ride the high country
  • Riot in cell block 11
  • Road to Morocco
  • The roaring twenties
  • The rocking horse winner
  • Rocky
  • Room at the top
  • The rose tattoo
  • Rosemary's baby
  • Ryan's daughter
  • Sabrina
  • San Francisco
  • Scarface: the shame of the nation.
  • V. IV. The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • The sea hawk
  • The search
  • The searchers
  • Separate tables
  • Sergeant York
  • Serpico
  • Seven brides for seven brothers
  • The seven year itch
  • The seventh veil
  • Shadow of a doubt
  • Shall we dance
  • Shane
  • She done him wrong
  • The shootist
  • Show boat
  • Show boat
  • Silk stockings
  • Sing as we go
  • Singin' in the rain
  • Sitting pretty
  • Sleuth
  • Smile
  • Snow White and the seven dwarfs
  • Some like it hot
  • The song of Bernadette
  • The sound of music
  • South Pacific
  • The southerner
  • Spellbound
  • The spiral staircase
  • The spy who came in from the cold
  • The spy who loved me
  • Stagecoach
  • A star is born
  • A star is born
  • Star wars
  • State of the union
  • Stella Dallas
  • The sting
  • The story of G.I. Joe.
  • A streetcar named desire
  • The struggle
  • Sullivan's travels
  • Summer of '42
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Super fly
  • Suspicion
  • A tale of two cities
  • The talk of the town
  • Tarzan, the ape man
  • Taxi driver
  • Teacher's pet
  • That Hamilton woman
  • Theatre of blood
  • These three
  • They were expendable
  • The thief of Bagdad
  • The thin man
  • The thing
  • Things to come
  • The third man
  • The 39 steps
  • This sporting life
  • A thousand clowns
  • Three comrades
  • Three godfathers
  • Tight little island
  • To be or not to be
  • To catch a thief
  • To have and have not
  • To kill a mockingbird
  • Tom Jones
  • Top hat
  • Topper
  • The treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • The trouble with Harry
  • True grit
  • Twelve angry men
  • Twelve o'clock high
  • Twentieth century
  • 20,000 leagues under the sea
  • 2001: a space odyssey
  • The uninvited
  • An unmarried woman
  • The unsinkable Molly Brown
  • Viva Zapata!
  • A walk in the sun
  • Watch on the Rhine
  • Way out west
  • West side story
  • The westerner
  • What price Hollywood?
  • White heat
  • Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • The wild bunch
  • Winchester '73
  • The wings of eagles
  • Winterset
  • Witness for the prosecution
  • The wizard of Oz
  • The women
  • Written on the wind
  • The wrong man
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • You can't cheat an honest man
  • You only live once
  • Young Mr. Lincoln
  • Zorba the Greek.