Book Description
From Leonard Maltin, author of the bestselling annual Movie Guide, comes this guide to classic movies. Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide includes more than 7,000 capsule reviews of classic movies, including: The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), High Noon (1952), and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967). In addition, this unique volume also offers a star and director index, a full listing of classic movies on DVD, and Leonard Maltin’s unique Top Ten lists. The result is an authoritative, dynamic guide to the classics no film aficionado should be without.

About the Author
Leonard Maltin is one of the country’s leading film critics and historians. He has written a number of books (including Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons), appeared on television’s Entertainment Tonight for more than twenty years, and teaches at the University of Southern California.

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