Download or read book Lost Films of the Fifties written by Douglas Brode and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'How do you define forgotten?' ...A 'lost film,' to my mind , is a movie that has yet to evolve as a cult film, but which has the potential to... One rule of thumb in compiling the hundred films I write about here (and the selection process was a long, painful one) was that I would severely limit the number of films featuring big stars... I put a high priority on emphasizing movies that ought to be anthologized but which probably never would unless I included them here"--from Introduction.