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January 2nd – 14 Movie Books & 1 John Wayne Movie for 27 Bucks

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One of the benefits of driving a third of the way across America and back is stopping at McKays’ Used Book Store….picked up 14 movie books and Chisum (with a DVD commentary) for 27 bucks.

McKays Book Store in Knoxville gets 10,000 “new” books a day.  So we stop on the way to Alabama and on the way back home.

Must be getting old….then again….the big 50 is coming in a few months….but boy…am I wiped out today…..after our 15 hour car ride yesterday.

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8 thoughts on “January 2nd – 14 Movie Books & 1 John Wayne Movie for 27 Bucks”

  1. Lots of good books here… The Hollywood Story is a great book that is full of facts and figures, the original full size hardback coffee table version is even better; you are sure to enjoy this one. Another go to book for me is The Genius of the System by Thomas Schatz.

    1. Hey John…I agree with you about The Hollywood Story….I almost did not get it…..on my quick assessment of the book…I thought it did not have much information I like…..but for 2 bucks I thought…what the heck….well when I really looked at it later…I realized it was a great find….with lots of box office for the 1920 to 1940 time frame.

      I will have to keep an eye out for The Genius of the System…..maybe I will see it on my next trip to Alabama. 🙂

    1. Hey Dan…..I have read some of the Guinness book (it is at my local library) but the Forgotten Films To Remember is “new” to me…..I look forward to reading it. Thanks for checking out our daily post.

      1. I also have the Hollywood Story but the coffee table version which John Mentioned. It has all kinds of grafts for the studios and in the back you get lists of personnel for the studios like when the stars worked there along with directors, composers, maybe set directors. In the 80’s when that came out there were coffee table books for the 8 major studios that they cover. All had write-ups on every film they released. I have MGM, Warner Brothers, RKO, Columbia, Universal, Paramount, United Artists and Fox. There was a Disney one too (after Touchstone came to be). All are way out of date now. The Hollywood Story got me into widescreen pictures for a few years, had a MacFarland published book listing all widescreen films released through 1988 by process and then an appendix of 70MM films and 70MM blowups including lots of Russian films up till 1988 or so.

        1. Hey Dan…..I am quickly realizing that The Hollywood Story was the best book of the bunch. The coffee table version is actually a reference book at one of the community libraries around us…..I have often gone there when stuck while doing research on some classic thespian. Well now I have most of that information in the house with me. I have the MGM and Paramount coffee table books already…they were bought at the same place I got these books. On this trip I saw another copy if the MGM book for 1 dollar. Made me think I overpaid last year when I spent 2 dollars on the same book. Thanks for the information.

  3. ooh nice film books, I wish I had a McKays Book Store near here. I have three of those books on my shelves – The James Bond Bedside Companion which has a lot of interesting facts on the Ian Fleming novels as well as the films. The Guinness book of movie facts and The Hollywood Story.

    Is that you collapsed on the laptop Bruce? 🙂

    1. Hey Steve…..nope that is not me on the laptop…..but it is how I feel…..though I feel good now….too bad it took until 7:00 PM to get back to normal. I almost did not buy The Hollywood Story…..because the first few pages I looked at were not very interesting….but for 2 bucks I thought …”you can’t beat the price”. Turns out there is lots of great information in that one….including box office grosses for some of the main studios….heck even Paramount is in the book…lol. I wish McKays was not 8 hours away…..the place is always packed….going once a year is just not enough!…..lol.

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