Showing posts with label westerns and other colonial narratives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label westerns and other colonial narratives. Show all posts
06 August 2020

Hondo from Story to Screenplay to Novel

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In a collection of Louis L’Amour stories, I came across this passage in Jon Tuska’s introduction, explaining how L’Amour’s first sale in t...
10 July 2020

How a Real Story Became Incident at Hawk’s Hill

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In 1873, a young boy went missing from his family’s farm in Manitoba. After more than a week, a man of Native and European ancestry found h...
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05 May 2020

Rio Grande and Roman Riding

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Rio Grande is the third western that John Ford made about the US Cavalry with John Wayne as one of the stars. Ford made it only because t...
06 April 2020

The Truth of True Grit

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Charles Portis’s True Grit is a straightforward manhunt story elevated into a great American comic novel by the narrative voice. The na...
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21 January 2020

The First Whiff of Gunsmoke

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In the late 1940s the head of CBS, William Paley, asked his staff to develop a radio drama based on the concept of “Philip Marlowe in the ea...
29 August 2019

Thundering Herds

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The Thundering Herd was another Zane Grey novel made into a movie by Paramount, and then remade by the same studio with the young Randolp...
24 August 2019

The Journey from Fighting Caravans to Wagon Wheels

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In 1929 Zane Grey published The Fighting Caravans , a novel about a scout who leads wagon trains across Native American lands to the Orego...
19 August 2019

Rethinking a Decision at Sundown

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I thought I’d watched all seven movies in the “Ranown Cycle” of westerns directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott, most pro...