Mr. Schickel takes on eight of HollywoodAIs 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.O-Library Journal.