Bart Andrews (1945–2009)

First edition

Useful in its time but, in a Wikipedia age, the only thing that sets it apart are the photos. And there are lots of those that are very fun to look at.

Screen shots from many very old tv shows with funny balloon words.

I remember getting this at a book fair in grade school and, even though I hadn't seen any of the movies it discussed (with the possibly sole exception of Star Wars), it was still great fun reading through all the questions and answers about films like Soylent Green, Zardoz, The Fly, The Beginning of the End (how ominous that sounded!) and tons of others. It made me want to see all of them, at least until I eventually saw how cheesy most of them were. I have seen a few since then, though...