Who the devil made it
Subtitle: conversations with Robert Aldrich ... [et al.]
By: Peter Bogdanovich.
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books; Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 849
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Production and direction.; Motion picture producers and directors -- Interviews.
Description: Peter Bogdanovich, director, screenwriter, actor and critic, interviews sixteen legendary directors of the first hundred years of film - from Allan Dwan and Raoul Walsh to Leo McCarey, Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Lumet.

The conversations brought together in this book give us a history of the movies. They are the stories of pioneers who came to the picture business from many worlds. Some were adventurers (running away to sea; joining Pancho Villa) before finding their place in the movies. Some were football stars, some electrical engineers, lawyers, auto mechanics, airplane designers. Some were trained in silent movies (Dwan, Walsh, Lang, von Sternberg, Hitchcock).

Many of them were men who lived to the hilt and brought to their work the residue of their earlier experiences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.