You can check out Landis’ full selection below. The other 10 is composed of 1-2 pages of text regarding the subject matter of each chapter and some 2 page interviews with the likes of Ray Harryhausen, John Carpenter, Stan Winston, David Cronenberg, Guillermo Del Toro and others. Other ’30s classics on his list include It’s A Gift, The Awful T ruth and His Girl Friday.Īt the other end of the spectrum, Landis includes Alfred Hitchcock’s classic psychological thriller Psycho and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II, which centres on the Corleone crime family after the events of the first film and simultaneously traces its move to American with a series of flashbacks to Vito Corleone’s childhood in turn-of-the-century Sicily. About 90 of the book is pictures of scenes in movies or movie posters with small anecdotes underneath. The film laid the foundation for countless monster movies and was later parodied by Landis in Schlock, which stars the director as the titular gorilla.
Schoedsack, this iconic pre-code adventure horror stars Faye Wray as Ann Darrow, a beautiful actress who joins director Carl Denham on a journey across the Indian Ocean to do location shots for his latest jungle picture.Īfter falling head-over-heels for First Mate John Driscoll, Ann arrives on a remote and unexplored island and is promptly taken hostage by natives who dedicate her as a sacrifice to a giant primate called Kong. His first choice is the classic 1933 monster movie King Kong. The director’s varied list stretches from Hollywood’s Golden Age all the way to the 1970s when he was making his first movies.
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