This 1940 swashbuckler is one of the best examples of the old Hollywood studio system at work. Scholars and film buffs will learn much about collaborative filmmaking on an exceptionally large scale as Rudy Behlmer traces step-by-step the evolution of "The Sea Hawk." The very anti-thesis of an auteur film, "The Sea Hawk" illustrates the ways in which creative input from just about everyone on the Warner Brothers lot--producers, writers, art directors, director, cameraman, special effects team, editor and composer-conductor--resulted in a film in the familiar Warners house style. This book includes the complete screenplay.
A masterpiece of historical fiction—and a ferociously gripping adventure tale.
Captain Blood (a.k.a. The Odyssey of Captain Blood) is an adventure novel in which the title character is admiral of a fleet of pirate ships. Rafael Sabatini was an English writer of novels of romance and adventure.
Avi's treasured Newbery Honor Book now in expanded After Words edition!Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832.
Sea Hawk is an exceptional Civil War adventure story that brings human drama to the naval war.
Dr. Julia Blanchard, a marine archaeologist, is so consumed excavating the remains of a 19th-century ship that she finds herself separated from her boat and adrift on the vast Atlantic Ocean.
Sir Oliver Tessilian, a Cornish nobleman, is abandoned or betrayed by everyone he ever loved. He is framed for murder, affronted and shunned by his fiancA(c) and sold into slavery by his half brother.
Alex Hawke rescued the kidnapped grandson of the Queen of England, but the young royal's captors - the treacherous Tang brothers - escaped.
Little did Thomas and Jackie know that this unemployed, former childhood actor and dishonorably discharged Marine had another devious plan in mind: To lure the couple out to sea, force them to sign away their life savings, throw them ...
Instead, The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz effectively adds a major chapter to the history of Hollywood’s studio era, including its internationalism and the significant contributions of European émigrés.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny.