-----Original Message----- From: Donald Larsson <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: 24 April 1999 21:18 Subject: Re: Movie production credits Donald wrote: >The most valuable information on Cinemania is taken from The Motion >Picture Guide, published by CineBooks. Updated by annual volumes, it >contains details of films from the silent era to the present, although >I'm not sure if it was still publishing after 1994. The Cinemania disk >does not always have all the information in the reference books--but >even the books can be incomplete or contain errors. So can the Cinemania CD Roms..... the synopsis of the Hitchcock film *Strangers on a Train* has a slightly different description of the ending than the video version that I recently screened. The cine books synopsis on Cinemania 96' states that the merry go round operator has a heart attack..... but in the film he appears to have been shot .... I think by a policeman.....it also says that all the people, except for one boy, were able to get off the merry-go-round before it collapses.... in the film there are clearly other people still on the ride. I know that these are only slight discrepancies but it prompted me to wonder whether there were two alternative endings for the film or if it was just a mistake. The real benefit of the CD ROM is the search facility..... sometimes it's great when you are trying to find films but don't know the titles, or if you need a list of 1935 war films made in the UK alas don't want to spend hours trawling through film guides..... it can take just seconds to locate them......although it won't be a complete list it still gives you a starting place ...... enabling you then to carry out further research with more reliable sources......I still love my books ;-))) Julia Julia C. Rice U.W.C.N. UK [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu