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John Baxter

John Baxter
John Baxter

John Baxter (not to be confused with the director of Love on the Dole, Crook's Tour etc) is an Australian-born journalist-turned-author who has written 40-odd books, most of which are focused on cinema and his beloved adopted city of Paris. | Wikipedia | YouTube

  • Hollywood in the Thirties (1968)
  • The Australian Cinema (1970) Science Fiction in the Cinema (1970)
  • The Cinema of Josef von Sternberg (1971)
  • Hollywood in the Sixties (1972)
  • Sixty Years of Hollywood, 1973)
  • Stunt: The Story of the Great Movie Stuntmen (1974)
  • The Hollywood Exiles (1976)
  • King Vidor (1976)
  • Filmstruck: Australia at the Movies (1988)
  • Buñuel (1998)
  • Von Sternberg (2010)

  • The Silent Empire of Raymond Rohauer

    by John Baxter 30th June 2026

    Republished after more than 50 years: the exposé that led to a $460 million libel suit Raymond Roguehauer (1924–1987) was world’s most infamous film collector and pirate The biter bit: vexatious …

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