The Rough Guide to Westerns 1 (Rough Guide Reference)
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Author: Rough GuidesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-16
ISBN: 1843536498
Number of pages: 312
Publisher: Rough Guides
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Book Review: Movie Westerns Get a Great "Rough" Treatment
Summary: 5 Stars
Author Paul Simpson follows the usual "Rough Guide" format in his contribution on "Westerns", but with some very welcome additions. For instance, he provides reasons for including certain films in his "canon" of 50 classic westerns and excluding many of the films most readers would expect to find in this list. Most of them are, of course, covered elsewhere in the book, but it is odd to see movies like "Hud", "Monte Walsh", "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" and "El Topo" in the selection. Simpson explains that he has "tried to show as many facets of the genre" as possible. This is all to the good, but what will disappoint many fans is that he has obviously little time for "B" westerns. If Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, William Boyd, Ken Maynard, Tim Holt, Buck Jones, Bob Steele, Charles Starrett, and George O'Brien (the last six heroes are not even mentioned) are more to your taste, you would do better with books like my own Movie Westerns: Hollywood Films the Wild, Wild West which covers many "B" movies as well as "A" classics like "The Spoilers", "Riding Shotgun", "The Mark of Zorro" and "San Antonio" which do not even rate so much as a passing reference. This "Rough Guide" has obviously aimed for the wide view rather than a more popular, if somewhat less broad approach. However, there is a limit to what you can include in 293 pages, but, within these limits, Simpson has provided a great deal of essential information.
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