Michael Caine
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"The Hollywood legend shares the wisdom, stories, insight, and skills that life-- and over six decades as an actor-- has taught him. Coming from humble origins, he knows what success takes-- and now he wants to share everything he's learned. And he does it at his entertaining best." --
"Over the six decades of his remarkable career, film legend Michael Caine has starred in some of the biggest movies of all time--from Alfie to the Dark Knight trilogy,...
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English
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Mr. Caine gives you a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rob him blind! The man who's hypnotized the camera lenses for a quarter of a century reveals the most closely guarded secrets on script preparation. working with the director, forming a character, voice, sound, and movement. Pearl by pearl he lays out the Caine wisdom on everything from set politics to set decorum, the film bureaucracy and more!
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Español
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Durante algo más de cinco décadas, ha sido espía, matón, mayordomo, oficial nazi, estafador, donjuán, peluquero y asesino, entre docenas de personajes que, con frecuencia, exigieron de él la máxima solvencia interpretativa. Pero Michael Caine no dejó de ser nunca Michael Caine para una audiencia rendida a sus encantos.
Su metro noventa, sus rizos rubios, su sonrisa socarrona y sus párpados pesados como leños encarnaron al tipo que muchos...
4) Flawless
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English
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An executive at the London Diamond Corporation is frustrated after years of watching promotions go to only the men in the company. So with the help of a janitor, she tries to steal a hefty sum of diamonds.
5) Last Love
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English
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Matthew, a widowed American living in Paris, and Pauline, a free-spirited dance instructor, form an unlikely bond that provides what they each desperately need: someone to call family.
6) Best Sellers
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English
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In a last-ditch effort to save the boutique publishing house her father has left her, an ambitious young editor (Plaza) goes on a book tour with a bitter, booze-addled author (Caine) who put the publishing house on the map decades ago.
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English
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A Nazi Strike Force plots to kidnap Winston Churchill while he is resting in a desolate Norfolk village. Colonel Radl (Robert Duvall), Colonel Steiner (Michael Caine) and Liam Devlin (Donald Sutherland) are enlisted to carry out the operation, which if successful, would irrevocably alter the outcome of the war. Disguised as Polish airmen, these paratroopers descend upon England only to be interrupted by an unforeseeable incident which threatens to...
11) Dear Dictator
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English
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When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America.
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English
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A stylish political thriller where love and war collide. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As a war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of drugs, passion and betrayal where nothing is as it seems! Based on the classic novel by Graham Greene.
13) The Actors
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English
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Two failed actors decide to try to con a local gangster by pretending to be the people to whom he owes money.
14) Zulu
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English
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Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
15) Harry Brown
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English
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An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
16) The Italian Job
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English
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Charlie is out of jail and on the make with a plan for the heist of the century. Aided by top criminal mastermind Mr Bridger, Charlie sets off with a team of villains and to lift $4,000,000 from under the noses of the Turin Polizei.
17) Alfie
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English
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Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women. He also rarely gets emotionally involved with them. He has a series of reversals in which his health is threatened, he has a child who is adopted by another man, gets a married woman pregnant and must procure an abortion for her, and when he decides to settle down is rejected for a younger man.
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English
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Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Caine shares the spectacular story of his life, from his humble upbringing in London's poverty-stricken Elephant and Castle to his military service and lively adventures to legendary meetings with fellow stars and his glittering five-decade career.