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Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns

This is the true story of the American West on film, through its shooting stars and the directors who shot them...Howard Hughes explores the Western, running from John Ford's "Stagecoach" to the revisionary "Tombstone". Writing with panache and fresh insight, he explores 27 key films, and draws on production notes, cast and crew biographies, and the films' box-office success, to reveal their place in western history. He shows how through reinvention and resurrection, this genre continually postpones the big adios and avoids ending up in Boot Hill...permanently. Major films covered include the best from genre giants John Ford, Howard Hawks and John Wayne, plus classics "High Noon", "Shane", "The Magnificent Seven" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". "Stagecoach to Tombstone" makes many more stops along the way, examining well-known blockbusters and lowly B-movie oaters alike. It examines comedy westerns, adventures 'south of the border', singing cowboys and the varied depiction of Native Americans on screen.
Hughes also engagingly charts the genre's timely renovation by Sam Peckinpah ("Ride the High Country" and "The Wild Bunch" ), Sergio Leone ("Once Upon a Time in the West") and Clint Eastwood ("The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "Unforgiven"). Presented too are the best of western trivia, a filmography of essential films - and ten aficionados and critics, including Alex Cox, Christopher Frayling, Philip French and Ed Buscombe, give their verdict on the best in the west.

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Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns

This is the true story of the American West on film, through its shooting stars and the directors who shot them...Howard Hughes explores the Western, running from John Ford's "Stagecoach" to the revisionary "Tombstone". Writing with panache and fresh insight, he explores 27 key films, and draws on production notes, cast and crew biographies, and the films' box-office success, to reveal their place in western history. He shows how through reinvention and resurrection, this genre continually postpones the big adios and avoids ending up in Boot Hill...permanently. Major films covered include the best from genre giants John Ford, Howard Hawks and John Wayne, plus classics "High Noon", "Shane", "The Magnificent Seven" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". "Stagecoach to Tombstone" makes many more stops along the way, examining well-known blockbusters and lowly B-movie oaters alike. It examines comedy westerns, adventures 'south of the border', singing cowboys and the varied depiction of Native Americans on screen.
Hughes also engagingly charts the genre's timely renovation by Sam Peckinpah ("Ride the High Country" and "The Wild Bunch" ), Sergio Leone ("Once Upon a Time in the West") and Clint Eastwood ("The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "Unforgiven"). Presented too are the best of western trivia, a filmography of essential films - and ten aficionados and critics, including Alex Cox, Christopher Frayling, Philip French and Ed Buscombe, give their verdict on the best in the west.

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Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns

Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns

by Howard Hughes
Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns
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Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns

Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns

by Howard Hughes

Overview

This is the true story of the American West on film, through its shooting stars and the directors who shot them...Howard Hughes explores the Western, running from John Ford's "Stagecoach" to the revisionary "Tombstone". Writing with panache and fresh insight, he explores 27 key films, and draws on production notes, cast and crew biographies, and the films' box-office success, to reveal their place in western history. He shows how through reinvention and resurrection, this genre continually postpones the big adios and avoids ending up in Boot Hill...permanently. Major films covered include the best from genre giants John Ford, Howard Hawks and John Wayne, plus classics "High Noon", "Shane", "The Magnificent Seven" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". "Stagecoach to Tombstone" makes many more stops along the way, examining well-known blockbusters and lowly B-movie oaters alike. It examines comedy westerns, adventures 'south of the border', singing cowboys and the varied depiction of Native Americans on screen.
Hughes also engagingly charts the genre's timely renovation by Sam Peckinpah ("Ride the High Country" and "The Wild Bunch" ), Sergio Leone ("Once Upon a Time in the West") and Clint Eastwood ("The Outlaw Josey Wales" and "Unforgiven"). Presented too are the best of western trivia, a filmography of essential films - and ten aficionados and critics, including Alex Cox, Christopher Frayling, Philip French and Ed Buscombe, give their verdict on the best in the west.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781845115715
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/31/2015
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Howard Hughes is a UK-based film writer and researcher. He is the author of the I.B.Tauris 'Filmgoers' Guides' and 'Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood'.

Table of Contents

Preface: Colt Movies * Acknowledgements * Out of the West: An Introduction to Westerns * Ten Top Tens * 'The Tumbril Awaits' - Stagecoach (1939) * 'Shakespeare in Tombstone' - My Darling Clementine (1946) * 'Your Heart's Soft…Too Soft' - Red River (1948) * 'Tomorrow's All I Need' - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) * 'What Will I Do If You Leave Me?' - High Noon (1952) * 'You Can't Break The Mould' - Shane (1953) * 'I Never Shake Hands With A Left-Handed Draw' - Johnny Guitar (1954) * 'We'll Fool Saint Peter Yet' - Vera Cruz (1954) * 'I Came A Thousand Miles To Kill You' - The Man from Laramie (1955) * 'That'll Be The Day' - The Searchers (1956) * 'There's A Hundred More Tombstones' - Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957) * 'I Bet That Rattler Died' - Forty Guns (1957) * 'There's Some Things A Man Just Can't Ride Around' - Ride Lonesome (1959) * 'I'd Hate To Have To Live On The Difference' - Rio Bravo (1959) * 'We Deal In Lead, Friend' - The Magnificent Seven (1960) * 'I Seen The Other Side Of Your Face' - One-Eyed Jacks (1961) * 'All I Want Is To Enter My House Justified' - Ride the High Country (1962) * 'Ain't You Got No Respect For Your Elders?' - The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) * 'The End Of The Line' - Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) * 'The Fastest Finger In The West' - Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) * 'This Time We Do It Right' - The Wild Bunch (1969) * 'Who Are Those Guys?' - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) * 'I Got Poetry In Me' - McCabe & Mrs Miller (1971) * 'Here In This Land, Man Must Have Power' - Ulzana's Raid (1972) * 'Whooped 'Em Again, Josey' - The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) * 'I've Always Been Lucky When It Comes To Killing Folks' - Unforgiven (1992) * 'I'm Your Huckleberry' - Tombstone (1993)

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