Also included in "America's Best, Britain's Finest", are some of the British movies made by British stars who were super-successful in Hollywood, such as James Mason, David Niven, Peter Ustinov, George Sanders, Ron Randell, Peggy Cummins, Barry Fitzgerald, Laurence Olivier, Francis L. Sullivan, Ian Hunter, Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Rex Harrison, Boris Karloff, Errol Flynn, Clive Brook, Michael Rennie, Deborah Kerr, Edmund Gwenn, Robert Newton, Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Nigel Bruce, Raymond Massey, Angela Lansbury, Margaret Lockwood, Peter Finch, Joan Collins, Jack Hawkins, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Charles Laughton, Edna Best, Howard Keel, Jean Pierre Aumont, Christopher Lee, Alec Guinness, Lilli Palmer, Peter O’Toole, Vincent Price, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Valerie Hobson, Michael Wilding, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Nils Asther, Elissa Landi.  

The problem of trying to attract readers to a book such as "America's Best, Britain's Finest" is that as a general rule (there are some notable exceptions), American movie-lovers cannot relate to British films, even those disguised with top-ranking Hollywood stars. Why? "Can't understand the accents," most people complain.

On the other hand, British picturegoers have always loved American films. Why? Most people are mystified. But I once received an excellent reply from a cinema manager in London's East End. "People come to the movies to get lost," he told me. "They don't come to see the same dreary streets they live in, day in, day out. They want to be transported to a magic world, or at least a different world. That's what Hollywood supplies. British movies are too realistic, too down-to-earth."

NOTE: The distributor has changed the title of the e-book sold at Barnes & Noble and other stores to "Movies International: America's Best, Britain's Finest". The contents are identical.