Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies

by Tom Lisanti

This is the HARDBACK version.



Talking Sixties Drive-in Movies is a collection of profiles, interviews, and tributes about actors and films popular with the drive-in movie crowd during the sixties. Interviewees include Arlene Charles, Nancy Czar, Gail Gerber, Christopher Riordan, and Irene Tsu talking Elvis Presley musicals; Bobbi Shaw and Steven Rogers talking beach party movies; Jan Watson and Diane Bond talking spy spoofs; Nicoletta Machiavelli talking spaghetti westerns; Mimsy Farmer and Maggie Thrett talking alienated youth movies; and Valerie Starrett talking biker films. Some of the chapters center on one movie or a genre while others are career profiles with a main focus on one or two drive-in movies.

314 pages, Hardcover

Published March 1, 2017

About the author

Tom Lisanti is an award-winning author/film historian of 10 books about Sixties Hollywood. He began writing professionally in 1998. His newest book is Carol Lynley: Her Film & TV Career in Thrillers, Fantasy & Suspense from BearManor Media.

In 2010 he co-wrote with former actress Gail Gerber her memoir Trippin' with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember, which won the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal for Best Memoir of 2010. In 2012, he appeared on Turner Classic Movies co-hosting with Ben Mankiewicz a week of 1960s beach movies and is featured in the documentary The Green Girl about actress Susan Oliver. He has been interviewed on a number of radio shows (WNYC's SoundCheck; Lakeshore Public Radio's A Look At the Arts with Tom Lounges; BBC; TV Confidential) and podcasts (Forgotten Films; Junot Files; NitrateVille; Ticklish Films) talking about his books and sixties movies of the drive-in kind.

Tom tweets regularly @TomLis and Blogs on his web site sixtiescinema.com. He resides in New York.

Reviews

[Frank · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tom Lisanti is a sensitive interviewer who treats his subjects with the respect they deserve. But boy does Bear Manor need a good line editor and fact checker. The interviews are enjoyable, even if they're with people from films you don't much care about, and the interview with Christopher Riordan is a gem. But the book is filled with typos, there's lots of bad grammar and some of the facts are just wrong.

[Squeeb (Jake) · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun read that helped me find a lot of new titles to explore, for which I am grateful. One note is that the editing on this book was quite poor, lots of typos and errors in general which made it a little hard to follow at times. With that in mind, I can’t dislike anything that is clearly made with a lot of love infused into it.