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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
"Lon Chaney is one of America's most important actors and Philip J. Riley's books on Chaney become instant classics in cinema literature" - John Landis "Philip J. Riley is setting the Industry standard for preserving the great silent film history in book form" - Kevin Brownlow Foreword by Patsy Ruth Miller (Co-star) Introduction by George Turner
London After Midnight - a Reconstruction
LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT (MGM,1927) starring Lon Chaney, is considered a Lost Film. It is still on the top of the AFI and other world wide film organizations "Most Wanted" lists as it was when the first edition of this book was published in 1985. This edition is 254 pages and the original printing was 178 pages. Chaney added 3 new faces to his "Thousand Faces" - Inspector Burke of Scotland Yard, Professor Burke of India, and America's first film vampire, The Man in the Beaver Hat. In fact it was directed by Tod Browning, who directed "Dracula" 4 years later, which was also to star Chaney as the Count, but his premature death in 1930 prevented it. This new edition also contains a foreword by For...
A Blind Bargain
In this the second book of the Ackerman Archives SEries on the reconstruction of lost films Philip J. Riley again provides film historians and movie fans with an innovative preservation of legendary lost silent films.
James Whale's Dracula's Daughter
"Just when you thought you knew everything about our beloved classic monsters - Philip Riley pulls another bat out of the hat with this new remarkable book series." - Stan Winston "Philip J Riley continues to discover lost film lore - last was the amazing reconstruction of Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera and now a treasure trove of scripts that no one knew existed." - Ray Bradbury WHAT IF... Boris Karloff portrayed the Wolfman and The Invisible Man and Cagliostro, King of the Dead? What if Lon Chaney portrayed Count Dracula, or Lon Chaney Jr. appeared in what was to be the first Technicolor Classic Monster film. What if Bela Lugosi starred in Frankenstein as the Doctor or the Monster or Wolfman vs. Dracula or in the script included in this first volume of the Alternate History of FilMonsters James Whale's DRACULA'S DAUGHTER? Now through the discovery of these legendary filmscripts you will have your answers! Contains the excised chapter from Dracula, entitled Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker Plus the memories of Carl Laemmle Junior and R.C. Sherriff
War Eagles - The Unmaking of an Epic - An Alternate History for Classic Film Monsters
This latest addition to Philip J Riley's Alternate History of Classic Filmonsters series is a collaborative effort with fellow film historian David Conover that delves into one of the most famous unproduced motion pictures of all time, Merian C. Cooper's legendary WAR EAGLES! Planned as a full Technicolor production at MGM in the late 1930s, WAR EAGLES would have eclipsed Cooper and long-time SFX partner Willis O'Brien's KING KONG as the greatest fantasy epic of the period had it not fallen victim to pre-war studio politics and the rise of Hitler's Third Reich on the eve of World War II. Long considered a lost film effort, Conover's research has actually uncovered a richly detailed pre-produ...
House of Dracula
A complete history of the 1945 horror film, with forward by producer Paul Malvern and introduction by film star John Carradine. It contains complete original shooting script, details of the making, rare photographs, complete pressbook, and interview with film star Jane Adams.
The Bride of Frankenstein
THE SEQUEL OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS SHOCKER Vaunting ambition led FRANKENSTEIN to try and outdo Nature. He created a MONSTER. In this sequel FRANKENSTEIN is compelled to repeat his experiment and create a bride for the monster. He hesitates-but his task-master, by most dastardly threats, forces him to complete the work with the result that - - A terrifying story which contains an underlying idea that is particularly applicable at the present time when machinery, has become a MONSTER-a dominating and revolutionizing power in the economics of the MODERN WORLD HORROR - FASCINATION - ROMANCE
The Pit and the Pendulum
A CASTLE THAT TORTURE BUILT, WHOSE DUNGEON WALLS STILL SWEATED BLOOD A FAMILY TERRORIZED BY THE AWFUL SECRET THEY SHARED-AND THE THING THAT SKRIEKED IN THE NIGHT A BEAUTIFUL, YOUNG GIRL ENSLAVED BY UNHOLY PASSIONS, SNARED IN A NET OF EVIL . . AND THE MAN WHO CHALLENGED A NIGHTMARE -AND DARED TO FACE ITS HORROR, ALONE Here is the gripping film story of American International's "The Pit and the Pendulum," adapted from the bone-chilling tale written by America's master of shock literature, Edgar Allen Poe Introduction by Richard A. Ekstedt THE MAKING OF "THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM By Lawrence French
Dracula Starring Lon Chaney
Late 1929. The Stock market crash. At MGM Studios Irving Thalberg was involved in a power struggle. Lon Chaney's contract was coming up for renewal. Tod Browning, MGM's famed director of the macbre genre for the studio, had left and signed a contract back at his home studio, Universal. Carl Laemmle Jr was made production head of Universal for his father and he wanted to do a film version of Dracula. Carl Sr. agreed, as long as they had Lon Chaney as the star. Early in August of 1930, Carl Junior, still attempting to sign Chaney for the role, ordered a treatment to be authored by Louis Bromfield. By Mid August he was teamed with screenwriter Dudley Murphy and they began work on the script. Th...
