ASIN: B016GV976E
Publisher: Reid Books
Pages: 352
The film industry finally faced up to the challenge of television in the 1950's by firstly changing the dimensions of cinema screens and secondly by making better movies. The bad old days of producing movies on an assembly line were numbered. Of course, this revolution didn't happen straight away. In fact, at the end of the decade, some major film-makers were still holding out against change. But for the first time, Hollywood really opened its doors to independent movie makers like Otto Preminger and Stanley Kramer. Yet at the same time, some of the old masters of movie-making were given the green light to produce more entertaining, more expensive and more personal productions. No less than 150 of the best and most interesting films of the 1950's are discussed in this book: Movies such as: The Actress, The Barefoot Contessa, The Caine Mutiny, Desk Set, The Enforcer, Funny Face, The ...
