The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits

by Susan Sackett

A complete guide to Hollywood's top blockbuster films, from 1939 through 1988, details the five most successful movies of each year and includes facts about cast, credits, awards, directors, writers, and studios

Genres: Film, Nonfiction, Reference

368 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1996

Reviews

[Motion Picture Gems · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book and refer to it often for my blog and in general for fun. It was one of the first movie books that really got me interested in movies.

[TrumanCoyote · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unfortunately, a book pretty much deep-sixed by the Bombeckish ditzbrain of a writer. Also, counting Disney re-releases in the figures doesn't really seem fair to me. It was a little too concerned with the blockbusters--and the comments from insider magazines began to sound a bit too much like some porn critic ("great production values").