Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide

Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide
From Leonard Maltin, author of the bestselling annual Movie Guide, comes this guide to classic movies. Leonard MaltinÂ's Classic Movie Guide includes more than 7,000 capsule reviews of classic movies, including: The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), High Noon (1952), and Guess WhoÂ's Coming to Dinner (1967).

In addition, this unique volume also offers a star and director index, a full listing of classic movies on DVD, and Leonard MaltinÂ's unique Top Ten lists. The result is an authoritative, dynamic guide to the classics no film aficionado should be without.
Customer Review: Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide
My wife was disappointed in the annual books as they did not contain a lot of the older movies. This book resolved the problem.
Customer Review: Excellent Guide - Covers Its Ground
This book covers the old movies up to about 1960. In my opinion some of the really old ones it covers could be passed up (e.g. silent films) and may have been included to bulk up the book a bit. Still, I'm sure there must be fans of these that would be unable to find this info elsewhere and it may be valuable for them. This gives excellent coverage to these older pre-1960 movies and can be indespensible as a companion to the frequently inadequate descriptions given in the onscreen guides of satellite TV. I highly recomend it for that. Unlike the 2009 Guide, this one is a nice size and with reasonable size type so it is easy to find a movie and read the description. Now, if Maltin would just dump all of the movies covered in this Classic Guide out of the new book, the new book (2009 Guide) would be better served. Given that the number of movies is expanding exponentially, the newer guides should be broken into 2 sections, as well. Overall, Maltin needs this Classic Guide, a Guide for 1960 - 1990, and a Guide for 1990 - Present (2009 or whatever). Each guide could be comprehensive and a lot better than the inadequate and disappointing 2009 Guide tome. The single best source for all movies, though, is AllMovie.com. NBow, they need to take the descriptions off that website and put them into a 3 volume work as the truly Ultimate Movie Guide!