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 West and True Grit. Robert Redford achieved star status. Old-timers like John Wayne, Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum appeared in two Westerns apiece. Raquel Welch took on the mantle of Queen of the West. Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin tried their hand at a musical (Paint Your Wagon). New directors like George Roy…mehr
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 West and True Grit. Robert Redford achieved star status. Old-timers like John Wayne, Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum appeared in two Westerns apiece. Raquel Welch took on the mantle of Queen of the West. Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin tried their hand at a musical (Paint Your Wagon). New directors like George Roy Hill reinvigorated the genre while veteran Sam Peckinpah at last found popular approval. Themes included women's rights, social anxieties about violence and changing attitudes of and towards African-Americans and Native Americans. All of the 40-plus Westerns released in the U.S. in 1969 are covered in depth, offering a new perspective on the genre.
Brian Hannan writes a regular column for Cinema Retro magazine and gives lectures on film at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. The Sound of Silence: The Stalking Moon 2. Controversy Runs Wild: 100 Rifles 3. The Cleverest Lawman in the West: Support Your Local Sheriff 4. Kill the Messenger: Heaven with a Gun and Smith! 5. Western as Opera: Once Upon a Time in the West 6. The Roadshow That Never Was: Mackenna's Gold 7. Retread of a Retread: Guns of the Magnificent Seven 8. Tough Rider: True Grit 9. Bloody to the Bone: The Wild Bunch 10. The Good, the Bad and the Burt: Young Billy Young The Good Guys and the Bad Guys 11. One Step Ahead of the Audience: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 12. A Roadshow Too Far: Paint Your Wagon 13. Pedigree Is Not Enough: The Undefeated 14. Cause Célèbre: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here 15. 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 16. 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 Conclusion Appendix A: City-by-City First Run Opening Dates Appendix B: City-by-City First Run Box Office Earnings Appendix C: Annual Rankings of Westerns at the Box Office, 1960-1969 Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. The Sound of Silence: The Stalking Moon 2. Controversy Runs Wild: 100 Rifles 3. The Cleverest Lawman in the West: Support Your Local Sheriff 4. Kill the Messenger: Heaven with a Gun and Smith! 5. Western as Opera: Once Upon a Time in the West 6. The Roadshow That Never Was: Mackenna's Gold 7. Retread of a Retread: Guns of the Magnificent Seven 8. Tough Rider: True Grit 9. Bloody to the Bone: The Wild Bunch 10. The Good, the Bad and the Burt: Young Billy Young The Good Guys and the Bad Guys 11. One Step Ahead of the Audience: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 12. A Roadshow Too Far: Paint Your Wagon 13. Pedigree Is Not Enough: The Undefeated 14. Cause Célèbre: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here 15. 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 16. 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 Conclusion Appendix A: City-by-City First Run Opening Dates Appendix B: City-by-City First Run Box Office Earnings Appendix C: Annual Rankings of Westerns at the Box Office, 1960-1969 Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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