Mr. Schickel takes on eight of Hollywood’s finest directors in conversation—Hitchcock Capra Minnelli Cukor Hawks Wellman Vidor and Walsh—reminiscing about their working lives which spanned the most intriguing decades of American filmmaking. Each of these directors created a canon of work that even today sustains critical analysis without sacrificing popular appeal. “Immensely readable and richly informative...it provides a real education in just how movies are made....One of the best introductions to the cinema that one could ask for.”—Library Journal.