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"The current movie season was a particularly rewarding one, and this new volume presents many large pictorial spreads covering each of the hit films, including Midnight Cowboy, Anne of the Thousand Days, Hello, Dolly!, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Z, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Alice's Restaurant, and many more. In all, there are more than 1,000 profile and scene shots from both the domestic and foreign films released in the United States during the year. For an indispensable reference all important statistics are included, along with the photographs for each movie: cast lists, producers, directors, studios, costume designers, composers, release dates, color productions, writers, and many other valuable facts. Academy Award winners from 1927 to date are listed. There is an obituary section, as well as an extremely valuable index with more than 7,000 entries. Everyone interested in films, whether he sees them for entertainment or for serious study of the art of the cinema, will find this twenty-first annual a joy to browse through and an indispensable reference volume for checking thousands of facts and figures pertaining to the movies for this period."