Books written by Geoff Mayer

  • Guide to British Cinema
    Guide to British Cinema

    THE CHALLENGE 59 Greiffer , based on the play by Jacques Gillies ; Cinematography : Arthur Grant ; Music : Wilfred Josephs ; Cast : Peter Cushing ( Fordyce ) , Andre Morell ( Hepburn ) , Richard Vernon ( Pearson ) , Norman Bird ...

  • Encyclopedia of Film Noir
    Encyclopedia of Film Noir

    happiness—beginning with his humiliation of Pearson over a faulty pen. The inquisition continues with Fordyce berating Harvill over a minor irregularity in the bank's accounts, although it is soon obvious that Pearson, the chief clerk, ...

  • Encyclopedia of American Film Serials
    Encyclopedia of American Film Serials

    Pathé's exchange director Elmer Pearson in 1921 noted, after surveying 32 branches, the serial formed the backbone of nearly 60 percent of theaters connected with the company. The serial, according to Pearson, saved their businesses ...

  • Roy Ward Baker
    Roy Ward Baker

    ... based on his novel Photography : Arthur Grant Editing : Spencer Reeve Art direction : Scott MacGregor Music : Johnny Pearson Musical director : Philip Martell Sound : Wilfred Thompson , Robert MacPhee Leading players : Robert Horton ...

  • New Australian Cinema: Sources and Parallels in American and British Film
    New Australian Cinema: Sources and Parallels in American and British Film

    But this year Stella , for no clearly motivated reason , refuses to be even civil to him and when a teacher , Arthur Pearson ( Michael Siberry ) , is forced to stay at the hotel because of his car's failure , a potentially interesting ...

  • Historical Dictionary of Crime Films
    Historical Dictionary of Crime Films

    An earlier version of the film appeared in 1935 with George Raft as Beaumont, Edward Arnold as Madvig, and Claire Dodd as Get Carter (7 971) directed by Mike Hodges. Shown: Michael 172 ~ GLASS KEY, THE.

  • Historical Dictionary of Crime Films
    Historical Dictionary of Crime Films

    One Lonely Knight: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1984. Décharné, Max. Hardboiled Hollywood: The Origins of the Great Crime Films. Harpenden, U.K.: No Exit Press, 2005.

  • Hollywood's Melodramatic Imagination: Film Noir, the Western and Other Genres from the 1920s to the 1950s
    Hollywood's Melodramatic Imagination: Film Noir, the Western and Other Genres from the 1920s to the 1950s

    Scott Simmon writes that “something about Wyatt Earp and the O.K. Corral has made the story the single most extreme example of a Western-history phenomenon.”36 The Earp story was never filmed in the silent period.37 Hollywood's interest ...

  • The Oxford Companion to Australian Film
    The Oxford Companion to Australian Film

    This eagerly awaited companion, edited by a team led by Brian McFarlane, will become the primary reference for film professionals and movie buffs seeking information about any facet of Australian...

  • The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand
    The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand

    Dennis , Jonathan and Jan Bieringa ( eds ) ( 1996 ) Film in Aotearoa New Zealand . Wellington : Victoria University ... Rayner , Jonathan ( 1999 ) Cinema Journeys of the Man Alone : The New Zealand and American Films of Geoff Murphy .

  • Encyclopedia of American Film Serials
    Encyclopedia of American Film Serials

    THE VALLEY OF VANISHING MEN (1942). The death of director James W. Horne on June 9, 194, left a void for the Larry Darmour produced serials at Columbia. Spencer Bennet returned to the studio for two serials, The Secret Code (194) and ...

  • Encyclopedia of Film Noir
    Encyclopedia of Film Noir

    ... Lonely Place ( 1950 ) , which starred his wife , Gloria Grahame , from whom he was at the time in the process of ... Dangerous Ground ( 1952 , and adaptation ) , Macao ( 1952 , uncredited ) , Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ) , Party Girl ( 1958 ) ...

  • New Australian Cinema: Sources and Parallels in American and British Film
    New Australian Cinema: Sources and Parallels in American and British Film

    This book represents a new way of thinking about Australian cinema by asking where the origins of the new film lie.

  • The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand
    The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand

    From The Story of the Kelly Gang in 1906 to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Australia and New Zealand have made a unique impact on international cinema. This book...