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Author/co-author of numerous books about the cinema and is regarded as one of the foremost James Bond scholars. His book The Essential Bond: An Authorized Guide to the World of 007 (written with Dave Worrall) is the top selling Bond film book of all time. Pfeiffer is also the editor-in-chief of Cinema Retro magazine, dedicated to films of the 1960s and 1970s, and the producer of, and consultant to, numerous film-related documentaries. He resides in New Jersey.

Author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classic Movies (2006), The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007 (2002); coauthor of The Films of Harrison Ford (1996), and The Films of Sean Connery (1993), among others.

Primary Contributions (451)
Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer, American musical film, released in 1927, that was the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. It marked the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent-film era. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.) On Yom Kippur, cantor Rabinowitz…
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How the West Was Won
Casino Royale
Goldfinger
Song of the South
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Great Escape
It’s a Wonderful Life
Romeo and Juliet
Godzilla
Seven Samurai
Rear Window
Night of the Living Dead
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Sunset Boulevard
The Searchers
Bonnie and Clyde
High Noon
A Fistful of Dollars
Some Like It Hot
Rio Bravo
The Day the Earth Stood Still
True Grit
Bambi
The Dirty Dozen
Gaslight
The Red Shoes
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Charade
The Philadelphia Story
A Streetcar Named Desire
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Strangers on a Train
The Night of the Hunter
Meet Me in St. Louis
Exodus
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Forbidden Planet
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Battle of Algiers
Shadow of a Doubt
To Kill a Mockingbird
Vertigo
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Birth of a Nation
Pinocchio
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Ben-Hur
Singin’ in the Rain
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2001: A Space Odyssey
Mary Poppins
You Only Live Twice
House on Haunted Hill
Stagecoach
The Seventh Seal
The 39 Steps
Witness for the Prosecution
Metropolis
From Russia with Love
La Dolce Vita
Thunderball
Double Indemnity
The Manchurian Candidate
The African Queen
East of Eden
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
To Sir, with Love
The Hustler
Giant
Shane
M
Paths of Glory
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Anatomy of a Murder
The Big Sleep
A Hard Day’s Night
Judgment at Nuremberg
Modern Times
Blow-Up
Yellow Submarine
The Killing
North by Northwest
The Maltese Falcon
Lolita
Spartacus
Doctor Zhivago
Les Diaboliques
Easy Rider
Dumbo
Planet of the Apes
Laura
The Jungle Book
Jason and the Argonauts
And Then There Were None
Pillow Talk
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
The Quiet Man
Desk Set
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
His Girl Friday
Born Yesterday
Ninotchka
The Wizard of Oz
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The King and I
Ocean’s Eleven
The Mummy
The Thing from Another World
The Blob
The Thin Man
Cool Hand Luke
King Kong
The Magnificent Seven
The Italian Job
The Producers
The Great Dictator
Miracle on 34th Street
Citizen Kane
Bullitt
Frankenstein
Oklahoma!
The Guns of Navarone
Cleopatra
Touch of Evil
The Kid
Where Eagles Dare
Rebel Without a Cause
The Birds
Rosemary’s Baby
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Wild Bunch
Inherit the Wind
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Grapes of Wrath
Bride of Frankenstein
The Longest Day
The Thomas Crown Affair
Dial M for Murder
Once upon a Time in the West
A Star Is Born
The Defiant Ones
The Abominable Snowman
Swiss Family Robinson
Faces
The Haunting
The Lion in Winter
Dracula
Funny Girl
The Miracle Worker
Alice in Wonderland
Cinderella
Lady and the Tramp
The Odd Couple
The Young Lions
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Dr. No
The 400 Blows
Robin and the Seven Hoods
12 Angry Men
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Petrified Forest
Fail Safe
Fantastic Voyage
For a Few Dollars More
Billy Budd
The Man with the Golden Arm
Swing Time
Top Hat
Freaks
Brief Encounter
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Uninvited
The Lady Vanishes
Horror of Dracula
Red River
The Music Man
The Heiress
Splendor in the Grass
The Fly
Bringing Up Baby
To Have and Have Not
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Pink Panther
Scaramouche
A Raisin in the Sun
Battle of Britain
Point Blank
Attack!
Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol
Fahrenheit 451
The Pride of the Yankees
Lost Horizon
The Thief of Bagdad
Von Ryan’s Express
Son of Frankenstein
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Thunder Road
The Time Machine
Little Caesar
Cape Fear
The Set-Up
Body and Soul
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Champion
Babes in Toyland
Sons of the Desert
The Vikings
Psycho
Harper
Murder, My Sweet
The Killers
To Be or Not to Be
Northwest Passage
Village of the Damned
Bad Day at Black Rock
In Which We Serve
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
One-Eyed Jacks
The Desperate Hours
Safety Last!
Greed
The Crowd
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc
Camelot
The Prisoner of Zenda
Foreign Correspondent
Gunga Din
The Phantom of the Opera
Sweet Smell of Success
Birdman of Alcatraz
Elmer Gantry
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Mogambo
The Public Enemy
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Father of the Bride
Wuthering Heights
Lilies of the Field
Jules and Jim
Adam’s Rib
Hud
Meet John Doe
A Shot in the Dark
A Place in the Sun
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Stalag 17
The Caine Mutiny
Sergeant York
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Lonely Are the Brave
55 Days at Peking
Wild Strawberries
Lust for Life
Fury
On the Beach
42nd Street
They Were Expendable
The Awful Truth
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
The Asphalt Jungle
Charly
City Lights
The Gold Rush
The Silencers
Yojimbo
D.O.A.
Dark Victory
Whistle Down the Wind
Road to Morocco
Sullivan’s Travels
The Nutty Professor
The Train
Seven Days in May
The Front Page
Saboteur
The Fortune Cookie
Twelve O’Clock High
The Gunfighter
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Ipcress File
Cat People
Repulsion
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Mister Roberts
High Sierra
The Lady from Shanghai
No Way Out
Grand Illusion
Open City
Duck Soup
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Professionals
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
The Entertainer
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Seven Year Itch
The Son of the Sheik
A Taste of Honey
Jailhouse Rock
My Darling Clementine
The Naked Prey
The Bank Dick
The Stalking Moon
The Counterfeit Traitor
Will Penny
The Wild One
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Witchfinder General
The Bridge at Remagen
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Limelight
The General
Tarzan of the Apes
Riot in Cell Block 11
Now, Voyager
Coogan’s Bluff
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Misfits
In Cold Blood
The Big Clock
Zulu
The Quiller Memorandum
The Wages of Fear
Medium Cool
Kiss of Death
Scott of the Antarctic
Becket
Brute Force
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Dam Busters
A Night at the Opera
A Face in the Crowd
The Killers
Our Man Flint
The Big Heat
In Harm’s Way
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Detective Story
Madigan
A Night to Remember
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
This Sporting Life
After the Thin Man
San Francisco
The League of Gentlemen
The Blue Dahlia
Dead of Night
Oliver Twist
The Ladykillers
Masque of the Red Death, The
Jezebel
House of Wax
The Hill
She Done Him Wrong
The Scarlet Claw
First Men in the Moon
Guys and Dolls
The Innocents
The Four Feathers
The Swimmer
It Happened Here
Summertime
The Sand Pebbles
Lord of the Flies
The Americanization of Emily
Beau Geste
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Invisible Man
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Anna Karenina
Life with Father
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Some Came Running
The Night of the Iguana
Moulin Rouge
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Big Parade
Blackboard Jungle
Key Largo
Napoléon
Harvey
The Informer
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Horse’s Mouth
The Magnificent Ambersons
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Angels with Dirty Faces
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Ride the High Country
Torn Curtain
Days of Wine and Roses
Henry V
Hombre
Knife in the Water
The Circus
The Hound of the Baskervilles
One, Two, Three
Penny Serenade
Khartoum
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Mysterious Island
The Alamo
Out of the Past
Morituri
The Detective
Friendly Persuasion
On the Town
El Cid
White Heat
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Ben-Hur
The Love Bug
Fort Apache
Drums Along the Mohawk
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Take the Money and Run
Marriage, Italian Style
Belle de jour
Fantasia
Dinner at Eight
Detour
The Roaring Twenties
Anastasia
Alfie
Peeping Tom
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Seconds
Two for the Road
Sorry, Wrong Number
Intolerance
The Knack…and How to Get It
The Pawnbroker
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Targets
The Wolf Man
Tony Rome
The Phantom of the Opera
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Viridiana
Two Women
A Double Life
Publications (3)
Cinema Sex Sirens
Cinema Sex Sirens (April 2012)
By Lee Pfeiffer, Dave Worrall
Cinema Sex Sirens centers around a select number of actresses who capitalized on their natural beauty during the 60s and 70s. They range from cinematic legends to some whose names are barely known by the general public. Each chapter focuses on one actress wth a biography, commentary and complete filmography. Features full color photos, rate international movie poster artwork and magazine covers. Actresses featured include Sophia Loren, Raquel Welch, Brigitte Bardot, Elizabeth...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classic Movies
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classic Movies (November 2006)
By Lee Pfeiffer
Sit back, grab some popcorn, and let the credits roll. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Classic Movies provides comprehensive information on the best classic films from the silent era up through 1969, cross-referenced several different ways for easy access. Also contains fun, “insider” trivia and facts about the movies, the stars, and factors that influenced the movie or the audience at the time of the movie’s release. • Written by a recognized name in the industry...
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The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007
The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007 (August 2002)
By Lee Pfeiffer, Dave Worrall
The Bond name is synonymous with high-tech gadgets, beautiful women, deadly spies and action-packed, death defying adventure. There's no one else like James Bond around. There have been nearly twenty films about him, there are more than sixty websites dedicated to him, and it's estimated that more than a quarter of the planet has seen at least one Bond film.\nNow, fans can enter the world of 007 like never before, with this meticulously researched guide that examines all the top-secret...
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