Written and researched with the full cooperation of the George Pal Estate, Justin Humphreys’ George Pal: Man of Tomorrow involved twenty years of exhaustive research in international archives and private collections, including unprecedented access to the Pal family’s archive. This definitive, profusely illustrated biography of this visionary movie futurist includes new interviews with over sixty of Pal’s coworkers, family members, and admirers in the film industry, dozens of rare photographs, and gorgeous cover art by renowned science fiction illustrator/historian Vincent Di Fate.
I have often said that the best biographies are those that the author went to the family relatives. Sadly, that is not often the case and many biographies written today are padded with lengthy plot summaries of movies and come off like a compilation of magazine articles and movie reviews in chronological order. This is not one of those cases. I would go as far as saying this is the best biography I have read in years. Tons of interviews, quotes, trivia about the making of the movies but also the details behind the man responsible for them.
This is as good as it gets.
