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Author: Howard Hughes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:
Width: 18.90cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 24.60cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9781845119027
ISBN 10: 1845119029
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 30 April 2010
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Contents: Acknowledgments Clintessence: The Appeal of The Man With No Name Universal Casting: The Early Films Ridin' Easy: 'Rawhide' Part One: The Westerns 'A Fistful of Dollars' (1964, 'For a Few Dollars More' (1965), 'The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (1966), 'Hang 'Em High' (1968), 'Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), Joe Kidd (1972), 'High Plains Drifter (1973), 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' (1976), 'Pale Rider' (1985), 'Unforgiven' (1992). Part Two: The Cops: 'Coogan's Bluff' (1968), 'Dirty Harry' (1971), 'Magnum Force' (1973), 'The Enforcer' (1976), 'The Gauntlet' (1976), 'Sudden Impact' (1983), 'Tightrope' (1984), 'City Heat' (1984), 'The Dead Pool' (1988), 'The Rookie' (1990), 'In the Line of Fire' (1993), 'A Perfect World' (1993). Part Three: The Lovers 'The Witches' (1967), 'Paint Your Wagon' (1969), 'The Beguiled' (1971), 'Play Misty for Me' (1970), 'Breezy' (1973), 'The Bridges of Madison County (1995). Part Four: The Comedies 'Every Which Way But Loose' (1978), 'Bronco Billy' (1980), 'Every Which Way You Can' (1980, 'Pink Cadillac (1989). Part Five: The Dramas 'Honkytonk Man' (1982), 'Bird' (1988), 'White Hunter Black Heart (1990), 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), 'Space Cowboys' (2000), 'Mystic River (2003), 'Million Dollar Baby' (2004). Part Six: The Thrillers 'Thunderbolt and Lightfoot' (1974), 'The Eiger Sanction (1975), 'Escape from Alcatraz' (1979), 'Absolute Power' (1996), 'True Crime' (1999), 'Blood Work' (2002). Part Seven: The War Movies 'Where Eagles Dare' (1969), 'Kelly's Heroes' (1970), 'Firefox' (1982), 'Heartbreak Ridge' (1986), 'Flags of Our Fathers' (2006), 'Letters from Iwo Jima' (2006).
Reviews
<p> An exhaustive work, fine as a reference resource for someone who needs a little more information than the Internet Movie Database can provide. -- The Weekly Standard Praise for Howard Hughes: On Stagecoach to Tombstone Hold your horses for next month's release of Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoer's Guide to Great Westerns , author Howard Hughes' detailed tome on 27 classic films. - Newsday.com Written with panache and fresh insight...buy it! - Dave Worrall, Cinema Retro <p> A deftly written collection of essays, full of fascinating insight, this will be a must for fellow travellers on the sagebrush trail. - Howard Maxford, Film Review On Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: Howard Hughes has written a well-researched, detailed, no-nonsense and above all enthusiastic guide to twenty of the best Italian Westerns from A Fistful of Dollars to My Name is Nobody. He has aimed for the heart, and unlike the bad guy in Fistful, he has hit it. --Christopher Frayling, author of Spaghetti Westerns
<p>“An exhaustive work, fine as a reference resource for someone who needs a little more information than the Internet Movie Database can provide.” -- The Weekly Standard Praise for Howard Hughes:  On Stagecoach to Tombstone :   Hold your horses for next month's release of Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoer's Guide to Great Westerns, author Howard Hughes' detailed tome on 27 classic films. - Newsday.com   Written with panache and fresh insight…buy it! – Dave Worrall, Cinema Retro <p> A deftly written collection of essays, full of fascinating insight, this will be a must for fellow travellers on the sagebrush trail. – Howard Maxford, Film Review On Once Upon a Time in the Italian West:   Howard Hughes has written a well-researched, detailed, no-nonsense and above all enthusiastic guide to twenty of the best Italian Westerns from A Fistful of Dollars to My Name is Nobody. He has aimed for the heart, and unlike the bad guy
Author Information
Filmwriter Howard Hughes is the author of the Filmgoers' Guides: 'Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns'; 'Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Crime Movies', and 'Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns', all I.B. Tauris.
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