Motion picture series and sequels : a reference guide

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by  Drew, Bernard Alger

MOTION PICTURE
SERIES AND
_______ SEQUELS
A Reference Guide
Bernard A. Drew
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MOTION PICTURE SERIES AND
SEQUELS

MOTION PICTURE SERIES AND
SEQUELS
A Reference Guide
BERNARD A. DREW
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First published in 1990
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MOTION PICTURE
SERIES AND SEQUELS
A Reference Guide
Bernard A. Drew
GARLAND PUBLISHING, INC. • NEW YORK & LONDON
1990
© 1990 Bernard A. Drew
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publlcation Data
Drew, Bernard A. (Bernard Alger), 1950-
Motion picture series and sequels: a reference guide / Bernard A.
Drew.
p. cm. — (Garland reference library of the humanities; vol.
1186) (Garland bibliographies on series and sequels)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-£240-4248-4 (alk. paper)
I. Title. II. Series. III. Series: Garland bibliographies on
series and sequels.
PN1995.9.S29D66 1990
016.79143’75—dc20 90-3321
CIP
Printed on acid-free, 250-year-life paper
Manufactured in the United States of America
Contents
Introduction by Bernard A. Drew......................7
Motion Picture Series & Sequels.......................13
References..........................................................366
Title Index...........................................................371
Addenda..............................................................407
Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) wears black and rides a white horse
in some sixty-six oax-operas.
The New Return of Son of Sequel
Rides Again IV: The Introduction
Film companies in the last decade have milked formulas for all they're
worth. For 1989 alone, there were some forty-five major motion
pictures which were sequels or part of a series, from American Ninja
3: Blood Hunt to Zapped Again, and including what have become
near annual offerings of Friday the 13th, Police Academy and Star
Trek. The $250 million box office success of Batman assures sequels
for years to come.
Nineteen eighty-nine is not an isolated year; there were some forty
sequel or series films distributed in 1988, twenty or more in each of
the two years before that (including Dirty Harry, Superman and
Delta Force entries). And at this writing nearly twenty-five are
already in production for 1990, among them Godfather III, Gremlins
2, 48 HRS. II, Class of Nuke 'Em High II, Ernest Goes to Jail and
Rocky V.
It’s gotten so blatant that in Back to the Future 2, a good chuckle is
provided by a visual gag in which a movie marquee - without great
exaggeration — advertises Jaws 19. {Back to the Future 3, by the
way, is being released in 1990.)