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Michael Curtiz is the best director most people have never heard of. Yet until now nobody has taken up the case for Curtiz in a soup-to-nuts biography.

Director michael curtiz biography templates

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The good news is that Alan Rode's massive book is exhaustively researched, well written and frequently witty. [Curtiz] amassed a body of work without parallel at a great movie studio [Warner Bros.]. His films are his best advocate of that, but Alan Rode's book is a close second.

~Wall Street Journal

Rode's book is entertaining and informative as it takes measure of a director who has received less credit than he deserves.

~Shepherd Express

Rode's evenhanded, impressively researched, engrossing book amply conveys its subject's 'incandescent mania for filmmaking.'

~Film Comment

[The book is] spry and confident, pulsing with tasty quotes and catchy proseanecdotes, side-shots, insights, ironies.

An abundant, 698-page, six-course meal.

~Hollywood Elsewhere

In the impressive and entertaining new boo