Covering seventy-five years of brilliant reporting, "Alistair Cooke At the Movies", edited by Geoff Brown, gives us a new insight into the world of film from one of the twentieth century's most beloved writers. Long before Alistair Cooke became known for his "Letter from America" BBC Broadcasts, he was a film reviewer. He began writing about cinema as a Cambridge undergraduate and continued to report on film when he went to live in New York, never losing his passion for the movies. This vivid and fascinating new collection brings together the very best of Cooke's writing about film. It selects the most sparkling of his little-known flilm reviews, and contains his journalism on everything from the trauma of the Hollywood blacklist to the robbery of Zsa Zsa Gabor's jewels. It also includes his affectionate recollections of various stars he knew and admired, among them Charlie Chaplin and Humphrey Bogart. "Alistair Cooke was a serious movie fan ...his passion for films is sharply caught...

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