Wisconsin/Warner Brothers Screenplays – serie

Talks about ""The Jazz Singer"", the first feature length film with spoken dialog as part of the dramatic action. This film deals with the conflicts confronting the first-generation Jew in America.

Lost for many years, a single surviving print of this classic horror film surfaced in the 1970s and was hailed as a legendary horror classic. The film is a potent mix of fantasy and reality.

Talks about a 1936 classic, fashioned from the Broadway play, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Profoundly different from the play, it has a place in the social history of America and of black America.

Talks about a 1941 Warner Bros gangster film that launched Humphrey Bogart to stardom. Critics praise ""High Sierra"" not for its classic Hollywood style, but for its influences on later artists, and the way it reflected changes in American society of 1941.

For sheer screen entertainment, few motion pictures have ever matched the 1938 Warner Brothers production of The Adventures of Robin Hood. Even today, after more than four decades. Errol Flynn's dashing performance places this picture high in any list of all-time favourites.It is one of the most studied of motion pictures, not only because of its popularity but also because of the extremely high level of talent brought to bear in its creation and the sharply honed production and editing techniques that allow an incredible amount of action and movement in the 102 minutes of the film.Includes the complete screenplay.

Presents a showcase of Busby Berkeley's musical production talent.

The story of the making of ""To Have and Have Not"" (1944) is an exciting one, ranging from the widely reported romance between its stars, Humphrey Bogart and the unknown nineteen-year-old Lauren Bacall, to some of the more subtle aspects of the wartime alliance between the United States and the Batista regime in Cuba. Kawin's introduction leads us to a fuller appreciation of one of Hollywood's most memorable films. This is also a story of a collaboration among four important writers: Emest Hemingway, Howard Hawks, Jules Furthman, and William Faulkner.

Talks about ""42nd Street"", a smash musical hit that resuscitated the Hollywood musical during the Depression.

Presents the powerful women's noir film in which Joan Crawford forged a new and successful screen image, winning her an Academy Award for best actress.

A notorious classic among cold-war propaganda films produced in the United States.

Considered by many as the archetype of the genre, this book states that this gangster film dramatized the discontent and alienation, anxiety and hostility of the dark years of the Depression.

A gangster classic where Mae Clarke's nose is used as a grapefruit grinder.

Talks about a 1942 smash musical hit, a favorite among audiences and film buffs.

An attempt to answer the major question of the 1930s: would democracy or dictatorship prevail? This book talks about The Warner Bros studio's eagerness to get behind the foreign policy objectives of FDR.

Talks about Bette Davis's role of a dying heroine.

Talks about a Hollywood classic directed by Howard Hawks.

This 1940 swashbuckler is one of the best examples of the old Hollywood studio system at work. Scholars and film buffs will learn much about collaborative filmmaking on an exceptionally large scale as Rudy Behlmer traces step-by-step the evolution of The Sea Hawk. The very antithesis of an auteur film, The Sea Hawk illustrates the ways in which creative input from just about everyone on the Warner Brothers lot—producers, writers, art directors, director, cameraman, special effects team, editor and composer-conductor—resulted in a film in the familiar Warners house style.This book includes the complete screenplay.