The Great Western Pictures
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Description de l'ouvrage:
This copious and useful volume covers over 300 western feature films, serials, and TV movies produced in the United States and elsewhere. The movies detailed include The Border Legion (1918), The Covered Wagon (1924), Billy the Kid (1930), Cimarron (1931), Hopalong Cassidy Enters (1935), The Plainsman (1936), Destry Rides Again (1939), They Died with Their Boots On (1941), The Outlaw (1943), Buffalo Bill (1944), Fort Apache (1948), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Broken Arrow (1950), High Noon (1952), Shane (1953), Johnny Guitar (1954), The Searchers (1956), The Alamo (1960), One-Eyed Jacks (1961), How the West Was Won (1963), Cat Ballou (1965), Hombre (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), True Grit (1969), and The Castaway Cowboy (1974). Each entry provides in-depth cast/characters and technical credits, a discussion of the film, and review quotes. This volume also includes a history of western films, a list of genre radio and TV series, and a an extensive bibliography of western fiction. This enjoyable reference guide for Western enthusiasts is also a useful sourcebook to many of the genre entries now available for viewing on television, the Internet, and DVDs.
À propos de l'auteur :
James Robert Parish is the author of dozens of books about Hollywood and show business, including The Hollywood Book of Death, Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops, and biographies of many celebrities, including Mel Brooks, Whitney Houston, and Jason Biggs.
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