Bøger af Robert Nott

Director Sam Peckinpah was just starting out when MGM released Ride the High Country in 1962. He was a new kind of director: young, brash, and in a hurry to help the Western "grow up" by treating it with adult themes. Ride the High Country was something new and different, a changing Western to match a changing West. Stars Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea were old hands at this sort of thing. Ride the High Country gave the two veteran actors one last job to do and a chance to go out with some dignity.Ride the High Country helped the genre mature and adapt to turbulent, changing times. It launched Peckinpah's career by invoking the themes of honor, loyalty, and compromised ideals, the destruction of the West and its heroes, and the difficulty of doing right in an unjust world--themes developed to their pinnacle in Peckinpah's later masterpiece, The Wild Bunch.

In this enthralling memoir we follow Max Evans and Sam Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol, struggles with film producers and executives, and Peckinpah's abusive behavior - sometimes directed at Evans himself. Evans's stories provide a uniquely intimate look at Peckinpah, their famous friends, and the business of Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Squatters & Others is a collection of 47 short stories which covers a whole range of completely different and varied subjects. There are tales involving an unexpected encounter with an alligator, evicting a ghost from a haunted house, how not to run a venture capital company, running a fleet of lorries, when not to play golf, fishing for conger eels and when not to turn your back on a florist. In fact, something for everybody.

Arranged from his birth in 1898 to his death in 1987, this book covers the films in which Randolph Scott acted. This book contains filmographic information, a synopsis, and commentary, discussing such topics as the financial aspects, production details, acting, other participants, and, responses for each listed film.

In the world of Western films, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy have frequently been overlooked. This account of these three Western stars' careers provides both their stories and the story of a Hollywood whose attitude toward the Western was in a time of transition and transformation.