|
|
|
|
|
|
BEST WESTERN MOVIES: Winning Pictures, Favorite Films and Hollywood "B" Entries
| Our Price |
$ 20.15
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Item Number |
324400 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Item Description...
Product Description
This grab-bag of movie westerns ranges from the best to the worst; from lavish, no-expense-spared Cecil B. DeMille epics to Poverty Row double bills; from big-budget John Wayne vehicles like "In Old Oklahoma", "The War Wagon" and "The Fighting Kentuckian" to the sort of bottom-drawer product delivered by Sherman Scott and Monogram; from prestige, star-studded westerns like "My Darling Clementine" and "How the West Was Won" to the depths of "The Toughest Man in Arizona"; from the expertly crafted, super-popular "B" stables of Gene Autry, William Boyd, Roy Rogers, Charles Starrett and company to the fly-by-night efforts of long-forgotten brands like "The Range Busters." All reviews carry detailed credits. The book is rounded out with a Hopalong Cassidy filmography and many reproductions of original film posters.
|
Item Specifications...
Pages 240
Dimensions: Length: 10.87" Width: 8.19" Height: 0.71"
Weight: 1.23 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jul 8, 2006
ISBN 1847281818
EAN 9781847281814
|
Availability 100 units.
Availability accurate as of May 25, 2012 09:54.
Usually ships within one to two business days from La Vergne, TN.
Orders shipping to an address other than a confirmed Credit Card / Paypal Billing address may incur and additional processing delay.
|
Product Categories
Similar Products
Reviews - What do our customers think?
 | "Best Western Movies" Delivers Winning Pictures, Favorite Films and "B" Movies Jan 1, 2008 |
| In a book of 239 large pages, it's simply not possible to write a complete list of Winning Pictures, Favorite Films or any other Western category. All an author can hope to do is to spread out a representative selection. However, a cover that presents John Wayne on horseback and William Boyd as "Santa Fe Marshal" indicates to me a book obviously strongly angled on "B" movies. Which it is. But very few of these I would describe as "obscure". In fact, I saw just about all of them within the last two or three years either on cable TV or DVDs like "The Great American Western" series. My chief worry was that the book covered comparatively few lesser known titles but concentrated on those that were readily available. I like to draw attention to "new" old movies that will delight fans. "Big Timber" with Roddy McDowall, "The Dalton Gang" with the lovely Julie Adams, and "The Daltons Ride Again" are three such splendid movies that jostle for attention in the book among the series pictures of Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Bill Boyd, William Elliott, Tim Holt, etc., and the big "A" productions that I presumed we all know and love: "The Big Sky", "Cheyenne Autumn", "Duel in the Sun", "The Fighting Kentuckian", "Frankie and Johnny", "The Gay Desperado", "Go West", "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", "How the West Was Won", "In Old Oklahoma", all three versions of "Law and Order", "My Darling Clementine", "Pirates of Monterey", "The Plainsman", "Rangers of Fortune", "Roseanna McCoy", "Rose of the Rancho" (both versions), "The Round-Up", "Texas", "The Texas Rangers" and its sequel, "They Died With Their Boots On", "To the Last Man", "The War Wagon", "When the Daltons Rode", "Winchester '73", etc. | | |  | Best Western Movies, Winning Pictures, and Favorite Films So Obscure That You Won't Care Dec 11, 2006 |
| Although the book title certainly sounds promising, the content and presentation is very disappointing. First, the author displays extreme laziness by not even providing a coherent list of the films that are discussed (even something as simple and useful as a listing by decade, actor, or director is not provided). Second, if you draw up a list of your ten favorite westerns, or films that someone might actually suggest you would be interested in viewing (e.g. Red River, The Westerner, Man who Shot Liberty Valance, High Noon, Destry Rides Again, Naked Spur, Shane, Once Upon A Time in the West, The Searchers, Ox-Bow Incident), you would be lucky to find information about even one of them in the book (incredibly, none of the films above are included). The title of the book suggests that "winning pictures", "favorite films", AND "B" movies will be discussed. I wrongly assumed that refers to at least a few films that the average western movie buff has heard of. However, does anyone really care about knowing what the author's endless list of favorite "B" westerns are? The obscurity of many of the films discussed should be properly reflected in the book title (perhaps a title such as: "Westerns I Like That You'll Never See). Third, the blurry black and white "movie posters" section provides reproductions that were apparently produced by a scanner that has the lowest resolution on the planet (the lousy stock of the paper used in the book also doesn't help). Unless you are really looking for information only about a small number of "B" western movies that you will never actually be able to purchase for viewing, then you should quickly "Hopalong" and "Hopaway" from this book. | | | Write your own review about BEST WESTERN MOVIES: Winning Pictures, Favorite Films and Hollywood "B" Entries
|
|
|
|
(0 Items)
