1985, ISBN: 083174510X

[PU: Gallery Books, NY, ISBN 0-8317-4510-X, c.1985. No price on DJ.], NON-FICTION. GANGSTER MOVIES., Jacket, 96 pages, pictorial endpapers, color and black/white movie photos throughout, … Mehr…

[PU: Gallery Books, NY, ISBN 0-8317-4510-X, c.1985. No price on DJ.], NON-FICTION. GANGSTER MOVIES., Jacket, 96 pages, pictorial endpapers, color and black/white movie photos throughout, and photo of nine movie posters, not full page. 9 1/8" x 11 5/8" tall. Shiny laminated pictorial covers with same photos and lettering as dust jacket. Includes the first major gangster movie "Little Caesar" starring Edward G. Robinson, Howard Hawk's brilliant "Scarface" starring Paul Muni, "Public Enemy" starring James Cagny, other Cagny and Humprey Bogart movies, crime movies in the 1940s & 1950s including Key Largo, White Heat, The Enforcer, On The Waterfront, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, The Big Heat, numerous others, gangster biography movies featuring Bonnie Parker, Machine Gun Kelly, Pretty Boy Floyd, Mad Dog Coll, and Legs Diamond, the greatest gun battles of all time, such as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, other notable movies The Godfather, The French Connection, The Cotton Club, Once Upon A Time In America, Point Blank, The Mean Streets, G-Men, Dirty Harry, 48 Hours, Thief, many others. Square, unmarked copy with light cracking noise when closing front cover, no evidence of anything being cracked, text is very solid with clean white pages, nice covers and spine. Dust jacket has a bit of rubbing on front panel, a 1/16th inch tear on bottom back panel edge near spine, light wear on upper spine edge and upper front panel corner tip, small whitish rub spot on bottom back panel edge near flap hinge. States First Published in the United States of America in 1985 by Gallery Books.<

1985, ISBN: 083174510X

[PU: Gallery Books, NY, ISBN 0-8317-4510-X, c.1985. No price on DJ.], NON-FICTION. GANGSTER MOVIES., Jacket, 96 pages, pictorial endpapers, color and black white movie photos thoughout, a… Mehr…

[PU: Gallery Books, NY, ISBN 0-8317-4510-X, c.1985. No price on DJ.], NON-FICTION. GANGSTER MOVIES., Jacket, 96 pages, pictorial endpapers, color and black white movie photos thoughout, and photo of nine movie posters, not full page. 9 1/8" x 11 5/8" tall. Shiny lamination pictorial covers with same photos and lettering as dust jacket. Gangsters in the movies starting with a 15 minute short in 1912, the first major gangster movie "Little Caesar" in 1930, crime movies in the 1940s and 1950s, gangster movie biographies featuring Bonnie Parker, Machine Gun Kelly, Pretty Boy Floyd, Mad Dog Coll and Legs Diamond, movies with gun battles such as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and more modern movies such as The Godfather, The French Connection, Dirty Harry, The Cotton Club, and Once Upon A Time in America, many others. Square, unmarked copy with light cracking noise when closing front cover, no evidence of anything being cracked, text is very solid with clean, white pages, nice covers and spine except for a small bubble in lamination on front cover and two bubbles on back cover. Dust jacket is very nice with no tears, just a bit of rubbing on front panel, and crease across very top edge of spine. States First Published in the United States of America in 1985 by Gallery Books.<

1985, ISBN: 9780831745103

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Gallery Books], ** Cinema audiences have always been fascinated by how the other half lives, especially hoodlums, killers and mobsters. Hollywood Gangsters takes a l… Mehr…

[ED: Hardcover], [PU: Gallery Books], ** Cinema audiences have always been fascinated by how the other half lives, especially hoodlums, killers and mobsters. Hollywood Gangsters takes a lively look at the hardest-hitting, most exciting examples of this all-action genre, including: / Little Cesar, the first major gangster movie / Howard Hawks' brilliant Scarface, starring Paul Muni as Tony Camonte, a warped and heartless hoodlum who has the same nickname as A Capone / Crime movies in the Forties, when crime suddenly became much more organized and dangerous than the one-off exploits of individual thugs / Gangster biographies, featuring Bonnie Parker, Machine Gun Kelly, Pretty Boy Floyd, Mad Dog Coll and Legs Diamond / The greatest gun battles of all time, such as the St Valentine's Day Massacre **, DE, [SC: 2.50], As new / Wie neu., privates Angebot, 23x29,5cm, 96 pages, [GW: 701g], Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten), Sofortüberweisung, PayPal, Banküberweisung, Internationaler Versand<