Josh Binney (hardback)

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This biography traces Josh Binney's unusual film and stage career which ranged from praise for his direction in Boston of the play </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pinocchio</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> to imprisonment in Montana for movie investment fraud. Particular attention is paid to his work in the 1940s for All American News one of the major independent producers of films for the Black market. Binney's credits there led </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Times</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>of London fifty years later to call him one of the spiritual forefathers of Spike Lee.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>T. Dennis Reece is a retired U.S. Department of State Foreign Service officer who served in the Soviet Union Brazil Saudi Arabia the Dominican Republic Guyana Cabo Verde and Washington D.C. A graduate of Valparaiso and Purdue Universities in Indiana he now lives in Tampa Florida. He is a volunteer for the Goodwill-Suncoast Bookworks early literacy program and is head of the Clearwater chapter of the Sons of the Desert the Laurel and Hardy appreciation society.</span></p>