But a lot of Westerns are not going to be saved. A lot of jungle movies are not going to be saved. Since there’s so much that’s incorrect in those movies, they wouldn’t be as valued. That plays a big part in it. A lot of people in the movie business could raise enough mone...
Meanwhile, innumerable low-budget westerns and program pictures exist in immaculate original prints barely used since their original release. Silent movies: So much of our cultural legacy is gone Cinematic adaptations would tell us much about the impact of popular plays and novels. Among the missin...
It’s as though Women in Love was relocated to the old West. Made in 1971, Catlow was one of the final westerns with its roots firmly in the tradition of the classic studio-era western. In 1969 The Wild Bunch had already kick-started a tougher brand of western that would lead to a ...
(1945-1950) Philo Vance is a fictional American amateur detective who appeared in twelve novels written by S. S. Van Dine (the pen name of Willard Huntington Wright) published in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, movies, and on the radio. He...
I loved Westerns and horror, and an old movie titled CURSE OF THE UNDEAD had impressed me. It was a Western vampire movie, and these days it would seem tame. I had seen it a few times and just loved the whole idea of it. I decided I wanted to write a horror western, and I ...
Posted in 1950s, foreign correspondents, reporters, westerns | Leave a comment Will reporter uncover secret plans? Posted on August 31, 2019 by Bob Stepno Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. “The Lady Has Plans” has World War II’s favor...
1974Popular CountryTex RitterTex Ritterquickly rose from local Texas radio to B-Grade Westerns to helping create the Country Music Hal of Fame as one of the greatest of theSinging Cowboys. The Bailes Brothers1941HillbillyKyle, Johnnie, Walter, and Homer BailesThe Bailes Boyswho grew up in Ka...
Children played baseball and swam at Stoner Park and saved their pennies for Westerns at the Nuart or the Olympic Drive-In. The Nuart, now one of Los Angeles’ leading movie revival theaters, showed Spanish-language movies twice a week, Margie Robles recalls. The Olympic has been replaced ...
“Oh now children,” says their mother. “Stop acting as if he’s a foreign correspondent in the movies.” The man in question replies, modestly enough, “It’s just a job. You know, kids, we’re not heroes. The men I admire are the scientists, working behind the scenes in all so...
She started out her year with a film based on Wilson’s 1919 novel,Merton of the Movies, which she found to be “very good indeed.” It was directed by James Cruze, who just the previous year had made the big hitsHollywoodandThe Covered Wagonas well as one based on another Wilson nov...