Screen Savers: 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery
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Spanning titles and eras from The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) to Three Kings (1999), Screen Savers: 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery by John DiLeo is not the typical collection of nostalgia-minded movie reviews. DiLeo provides such detailed analyses and enlightening critiques that readers will finish the book eager to view all of the forty films featured in his third and latest book. Movie-goers of all persuasions will discover fresh spins on the careers of famous stars and new insights into the screen’s essential genres. Screen Savers unearths cinematic gems that haven’t been as praised or well-remembered as they deserve to be. The book also sets the historical context for the films and discusses the reasons why these movies may have been unjustly overlooked. Screen Savers restores and intensifies each film’s considerable merits, making the book a tribute to movies that even the most devout film fan may have missed.
By bringing new recognition to the artistry, vitality, and cultural significance of these forty diverse films, John DiLeo engages in a dialogue with his readers, enhanced by his compulsively readable style. The effect is that of a film encyclopedia in friendly conversation, as if the author were sitting down with an old friend. DiLeo has the gift of being able to share with readers what he has been lucky enough to discover within these movie treasures. Screen Savers is the perfect companion for those eager to widen their film-going horizons and whose idea of heaven is a rainy day, a bowl of popcorn, and a double feature.
Movie Listing from Screen Savers: 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery
I. Musicals Written Directly for the Screen
Love Me Tonight (1932): Hollywood’s First Musical Masterwork
Cover Girl (1944): Gene Kelly, Rita Hayworth, and the New Breed of Musical
The Harvey Girls (1946): MGM’s Answer to Oklahoma!
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954): Reclaiming a Classic
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964): The Rule Breaker from Abroad
II. Film Noir and Variations
Criss Cross (1949): A Quintessential Film Noir
Border Incident (1949): Film Noir Meets Docudrama
The Tall Target (1951): John Kennedy Saves Abraham Lincoln
The Killing (1956): The Emergence of Stanley Kubrick
Pretty Poison (1968): A 1960s Twist on a 1940s Formula
III. Love Stories
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927): Silent Operetta
One Way Passage (1932): Kay Francis and the Glamour of Doom
Rachel and the Stranger (1948): The Love Triangle
Two for the Road (1967): The Maturing of Audrey Hepburn
Beautiful Thing (1996): Celebrating Gay Love
IV. Westerns
Devil’s Doorway (1950): The Native-American Perspective
The Lusty Men (1952): Contemporary Cowboys
The Big Country (1958): The Issue of Manliness
Comanche Station (1960): “B” As in Budd Boetticher
Hour of the Gun (1967): Deconstructing Wyatt Earp
V. Fantasy and Horror
The Man Who Laughs (1928): Move Over, Lon Chaney
Isle of the Dead (1945): The Psychological Horror Film
Portrait of Jennie (1948): A Love Beyond Time
Time After Time (1979): Jack the Ripper in the Disco Era
The Iron Giant (1999): Animating the Cold War
VI. War
The Seventh Cross (1944): Germany vs. Germany in WWII
The Raid (1954): The Civil War Comes to Vermont
They Came to Cordura (1959): Heroic Icon Plays a Coward
The Train (1965): The Art of War
Three Kings (1999): What Did We Win in the Gulf War?
VII. Vintage Comedies
The Half Naked Truth (1932): Lee Tracy and the Fast-Talking Talkie
Lady for a Day (1933): In Defense of Capra Corn
It Started with Eve (1941): When Quasimodo Met Cinderella
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944): Screwball Comedy’s Last Triumphant Gasp
Pat and Mike (1952): Tracy and Hepburn and Gender Equality
VIII. Life and Times in America
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932): Warner Brothers and Social Concern
Stars in My Crown (1950): A Celebration of Small-Town America
Bad Company (1972): The 1860s with a Vietnam Subtext
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988): The Land of Opportunity?
Rambling Rose (1991): The Triple Threat of Dern, Duvall, and Ladd
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