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Amy Whitelaw is a police officer considering her future. A career police woman wondering whether she made the right decision to join the police. University educated but street wise she is wondering whether her promotions will continue to the point where she can reform what she regards as an asleep police service. What of another life? What of a personal life? A killer appears on the streets of Sydney. Dubbed by the media as the Street Cleaner ...

Hollywood has had an off and on romance with the Bible -- thanks largely to Cecil B. DeMille whose ground-breaking silent picture "The King of Kings" has rarely been equalled for its faithfulness and fidelity, and certainly not in its dreadful re-make by producer Sam Bronston and director Nicholas Ray. This book examines both the hits and misses in the Bible stakes, as well as many other movies in which religion plays a major role, such as "Th...

Here are over 70 movie classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood, fully annotated with complete casts and credits plus other essential information, lovingly described and recalled by one of the world's foremost movie critics, John Howard Reid, who has spent over 50 years in the film industry. Mind you, Reid has his quirks. For instance, he has provided provocative illustrations of "Viva Zapata!" and "Vicki" but has not covered them in his book...

Although film noir is generally thought of as a male preserve, the role of female stars in noir is quite significant. This book is divided into three sections. In the first, 53 notable -- and not so notable -- noir movies are examined in detail, with complete casts and credits plus other essential background information. The second section provides thumbnail reviews and descriptions of a further 36 movies -- some to be admired, some to be avoi...

Award-winning movie critic, John Howard Reid, provides full details and expert reviews for over 80 classic films which he feels would qualify as some of the best that Hollywood and other national studios have produced to date. Among these treasures are such movies as Beau Geste, Blues in the Night, Camille, Duck Soup, Fedora, The Great Gatsby, King Kong, The Shepherd of the Hills, Tales of Manhattan, Tom Jones, Trade Winds, Ace in the Hole/The...

More than 50 of Hollywood's most famous movies are examined in detail in this book, which provides full cast and production credits, release dates, background information, DVD suppliers, plus up-to-date assessments and reviews. This information not only covers almost everything you would want to know about some of your favorite movies, but guides you towards further classic films you might enjoy! To name just twenty of the more than fifty titl...

Crime is not exactly a risky business for movie makers. In fact, this category has always been high on Hollywood's agenda, and there are very few crime films that have actually lost money. Crime and film noir make such a fascinating subject, that although the author set out to detail 150 of his favorite films, he has actually reviewed 185! 125 of these movies are also supplied with their exhaustive credit details, as well as copyright and othe...

Reproduced in full color, over 150 movie stills, posters and lobby cards are used to illustrate this short survey of cinema advertising, mainly in the 1940s and 1950s (although the 1930s and 1960s are not entirely neglected). The accent is mainly on American one-sheet posters and 11x14 lobby cards, but a few of the more colorful, classic French, Belgian and Italian one-sheets are also examined.

Bible scholar, John Howard Reid, has breathed new life into the gospel of Luke in this totally new and often extremely startling translation, based on the best available, early Greek texts. Reid has expertly employed the latest discoveries regarding the real meanings behind many of Luke's words. Unlike most other translators, Reid has NOT approached the Gospel with any particular religious beliefs in mind. Indeed, he has taken great care not t...

Table of Contents: Abraham Lincoln, Adventures of Marco Polo, Affaire Nina B., All Quiet on the Western Front, Anastasia, Anna Boleyn, Assassination of Jesse James, Belle Starr, The Big Knife, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Boys Town, Brigham Young, Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, Captain Fly-By-Night, Carry On Dick, Charge of the Light Brigade, Children of Eve, Cleopatra, The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell, The Cruel Sea, Day of the Locust, Dest...

John Howard Reid is one of this country's greatest natural storytellers... Some critics have likened his works to those of Agatha Christie. I find the comparison a little unfair -- to Mr. Reid. If Reid's work needs comparing, I would liken it to Graham Greene's... Merryll Manning On the Rim of Heaven is one book you will find impossible to put down. - American critic, Richard Deutch, in The Sunday Telegraph. Compulsive reading... An engrossin...

Award-winning films and movies, plus those motion pictures that were critically acclaimed, plus some purely personal picks (or should I say, "pix"?) figure in this new movie book by acclaimed (but also disparaged) critic, John Howard Reid. (You can't win them all!)

This anthology includes 15 prizewinning essays and short stories by the following highly awarded authors: Jennifer Antonacci, Fred McGavran, Jan Breen, Ned Condini, Laurie Gough, Rebecca Marshall-Courtois, Lissa Byers, Vicki Conte, B. Lynch Black, Kay Beth Avery, Noreen Braman, Debbie Camelin, Melissa Lassor, Craig Rondinone, and John Howard Reid.

Over 60 great film musicals from Hollywood's major studios are given detailed treatment, while hundreds more are briefly noted in this comprehensive guide to the best of America's vintage movie musical classics that are now available on DVD.

120 movies are detailed in this 8th book in the "Hollywood Classics" series. The movies range from marvels of special effects like "King Kong" to the first sound-on-disc feature, "Don Juan". Charismatic film stars like Humphrey Bogart, Jeanette MacDonald, Bing Crosby, Deanna Durbin, John Wayne, Errol Flynn, Eddie Cantor, Lana Turner, Alan Ladd, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Kay Francis, John Garfield, Jane Powell and Roy Rogers enlivened...

A complete index to all the films reviewed in all 24 of the "Hollywood Classics" movie books, this massive final volume not only devotes 120 pages to the title index but also contains 212 pages of exhaustive details and comments on an additional 80 must-see films. This additional 80 includes such classics as "A Streetcar Named Desire", the 1937 "Prisoner of Zenda", the multi-award winning "All the King's Men", Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo", Hen...

Unlike their American colleagues, British suppliers were extremely slow to release their country's superb libraries of classic films for movie fans to purchase on either VHS tapes or DVD discs. In 2004, little over 100 titles were available. But now there are around 700, with promises of many more to come. This book details some of the best. Over 400 movies in all are described in either minute detail or in summary form! The quality (or lack o...

Although Hollywood is no longer producing westerns at the rate of over 100 a year, the western movie enthusiast has over 1, 000 classic films available on DVD. This guidebook, written in the same vein as the author's previous "goldmines of information" (to quote one reviewer), "Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD", "Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD", and "British Movie Entertainments on VHS and DVD", is a must-have item...

Thanks to DVD, a great number of silent films and early talkies are now available for home viewing. In fact, so many of these wonderful movies can now be purchased, rented or borrowed by classic motion picture fans that an up-to-date reference work to the best (and the middling and the worst) has become essential. In this comprehensive guide, fans and enthusiasts will find not only familiar titles like Lon Chaney's "Phantom of the Opera" or Do...

Following "Merryll Manning: Trapped on Mystery Island" and "Merryll Manning: The Health Farm Murders", the third Merryll Manning mystery/suspense novel takes the Miami police sergeant to Sydney Harbor, Australia, where he finds himself the chief suspect in the murder of a young woman in her luxury beach-side apartment.