The gunslingers of '69 : Western movies' greatest year /
"In 1969-the counter-cultural moment when Easy Rider triggered a "youthquake" in audience interests-Westerns proved more dominant than ever at the box office and at the Oscars. It was a year of masterpieces-The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Once Upon a Time in the We...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- The sound of silence : The stalking moon
- Controversy runs wild : 100 rifles
- The cleverest lawman in the West : Support your local sheriff
- Kill the messenger : Heaven with a gun and Smith!
- Western as opera : Once upon a time in the West
- The roadshow that never was : Mackenna's gold
- retread of a retread : Guns of the Magnificent Seven
- Tough rider : True grit
- Bloody to the bone : The wild bunch
- The good, the bad and the Burt : Young Billy Young, The good guys and the bad guys
- One step ahead of the audience : Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- A roadshow too far : Paint your wagon
- Pedigree is not enough : The undefeated
- Cause célèbre : Tell them Willie Boy is here
- Reissue fever : A fistful of dollars, For a few dollars more, The good, the bad and the ugly, Hang 'em high, Return of the Seven, The stranger, The stranger returns
- The last round up : The great bank robbery, The desperados, Death of a gunfighter, A talent for loving, Charro, A time for dying, Sam Whiskey, A man called Gannon, Journey to Shiloh, Death rides a horse, Day of anger, A bullet for the general, God forgives...I don't, The brute and the beast, The man from nowhere, Ace high, Any gun can play, Payment in blood, More dead than alive, The ramrodder, Brand of shame, Hot spur.