The Railroad Man: Hollywood’s First Australian. The Adventurous Life of J.P. McGowan by John J. McGowan Geoff Mayer December 2017 Book Reviews In 1918 Australian born actor, writer, producer and director J.P. (Jack) McGowan joined Universal, starting a collaboration that lasted nearly four years. It followed three highly successful years working f...
Alone in the Alabama Hills: Budd Boetticher and Lone Pine Geoff Mayer June 2017 Revisiting Budd Boetticher The Good Lord really made this place for movies. There’s everything there. There’s sand, there’s rivers, it’s made for motion pictures. What I would do that other directors did not do, I knew every inch of Lon...
Boogie Nights Geoff Mayer February 2015 CTEQ Annotations on Film Boogie Nights (1997),Paul Thomas Anderson’s first fully formed film after the frustration and battles of his debut feature Hard Eight (1996), was conceived when he was 17 years old. Ten years later, after Ander...
The British “B’’ Film by Stephen Chibnall and Brian McFarlane Geoff Mayer October 2010 Book Reviews This valuable resource book begins in London, in late September 1960, where two films were shooting at Pinewood Studios. One was the notorious 20th Century-Fox production of Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 196...
Turkey Shoot Geoff Mayer July 2008 Dossier on Australian Exploitation, Special Dossiers Review of the now infamous 1982 violent hunter-versus-hunted film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and produced by Antony I. Ginnane.
No Man of Her Own Geoff Mayer October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film No Man of Her Own (1950 USA 98 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Paramount Pictures Prod: Richard Maibaum Dir: Mitchell Leisen Scr: Sally Benson, Catherine Turney based on the novel I Married a Dead Man by Co...
