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Strangest: Cinema's Strangest Moments

Extraordinary But True Tales From The History Of Film

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How did Leonardo Di Caprio become a hero on The Beach?Why would the droids lose control in Star Wars?What persuaded Mad Max to become Hamlet?Who made Long John Silver's parrot dread Treasure Island?Was there a curse on The Exorcist?How did Harrison Ford’s quick-thinking profit Raiders Of The Lost Ark?From the earliest black-and-white flickers to the most recent big-screen blockbusters, the history of filmmaking is littered with remarkable but true tales of the unexpected.Behind the scenes on more than three hundred films, this entertaining survey covers over a hundred years of cinema history. It's a story of disastrous stunts, star temperaments, eccentric animals, Hollywood rivalries, unexplained deaths, casting coups and bizarre locations.Spanning the silents through the Golden Age to today's effects-packed films, Quentin Falk, film critic of the Sunday Mirror and editor of the BAFTA magazine, Academy, reveals an astonishing collection of strange-but-true stories.

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Strangest: Cinema's Strangest Moments, Quentin Falk

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2003
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Titolo
Strangest: Cinema's Strangest Moments
Sottotitolo
Extraordinary But True Tales From The History Of Film
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
2003
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
326
ISBN10
1861056737
ISBN13
9781861056733
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Valutazione
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How did Leonardo Di Caprio become a hero on The Beach?Why would the droids lose control in Star Wars?What persuaded Mad Max to become Hamlet?Who made Long John Silver's parrot dread Treasure Island?Was there a curse on The Exorcist?How did Harrison Ford’s quick-thinking profit Raiders Of The Lost Ark?From the earliest black-and-white flickers to the most recent big-screen blockbusters, the history of filmmaking is littered with remarkable but true tales of the unexpected.Behind the scenes on more than three hundred films, this entertaining survey covers over a hundred years of cinema history. It's a story of disastrous stunts, star temperaments, eccentric animals, Hollywood rivalries, unexplained deaths, casting coups and bizarre locations.Spanning the silents through the Golden Age to today's effects-packed films, Quentin Falk, film critic of the Sunday Mirror and editor of the BAFTA magazine, Academy, reveals an astonishing collection of strange-but-true stories.