Manhattan on Film 1: Walking Tours of Hollywood's Fabled Front Lot

by Chuck Katz

Book Overview

Key sites for over 100 movies that were shot in the most fabulous city in the world, New York City.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879102837
• ISBN13: 9780879102838
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Manhattan on Film

Chuck Katz's Walking Tours is an enchanting way to see New York. It's fun, light and humorous. I was charmed and delighted with my tour. A past resident and current occasional visitor to New York, I relived some of my favorite movie scenes and felt a part of them at the same time. If you're a New Yorker, you'll never see the places you visit on the tour without feeling a little nostalgia. If you're a visitor, each time you see a New York movie scene, you'll relive your New York visit. It's really great fun! I highly recommend this clever, witty, well written, and entertaining book.

A great afternoon

Comming into New York for a long weekend, a friend of mine suggested taking "The walking tour". We were only able to do two of the tours but it was a great way to spend the day. The author writes with humor and provides alot of very interesting locations that really brought back memories. The tour was great, and the book was really fun to read. I loved it, and can't wait to finish the other tours....

View from Down Under

A wonderful way of revisiting New York, even after living there for years. Came for a visit from Australia, and Manhattan on Film gave me a completely new and different perspective on the city that I thought I knew as well as the back of my hand. The book is written in an easy to read and engaging style. For any movie lovers and/or New York lovers, this is a book that you must read

An Uncommon Way To Get To Know New York City

A very entertaining way to get to know New York, or to rediscover it. Instead of the usual tour books that will take the reader to the standard, well known sights, this book offers the possibility to get to know Manhattan's various neighborhoods by walking to different movie locations. The movies are ones we have all seen, which make the scenes come vividly to life when you get to them. Although the book also has tours of midtown, that will take the reader through the more common tourist attractions, the real joy for me came from walking through the narrow streets of neighborhoods like the West Village or the upper West Side.An unexpected benefit was that, unlike most guidebooks that tend to give you a dry recitation of descriptions and facts about the different tourist destinations, Chuck Katz' dry wit and genuine affection for his material makes reading about the locations a pleasure.

Walking Wonderland

I have done several of the walking tours in Chuck Katz' Manhattan on Film, and really found them very relaxing and entertaining. I have lived in New York for a long time, but love to find out new things about the city, especially in neighborhoods I thought I was very familiar with. That's just the kind of opportunities this book offers. I was first drawn to the book because I like to take walking tour books with me when I travel -- as I follow the tour, I slow down and really look at things I could otherwise miss. Following the Manhattan on Film tours, I found I noticed things not only about the movie site itself, but also about things nearby the site. Thanks to this book, and the infomative, engaging style in which Chuck Katz writes, my appreciation for the city has grown. I look forward to doing the rest of the walking tours this spring. Of course, it'll be on the agenda when guests come to town!