Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Preface: Colt Movies Acknowledgements Out of the West: An Introduction to Westerns Ten Top Tens 1. ‘The Tumbril Awaits’ - Stagecoach (1939) 2. ‘Shakespeare in Tombstone’ - My Darling Clementine (1946) 3. ‘Your Heart’s Soft…Too Soft’ - Red River (1948) 4. ‘Tomorrow’s All I Need’ - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) 5. ‘What Will I Do If You Leave Me?’ - High Noon (1952) 6. ‘You Can’t Break The Mould’ - Shane (1953) 7. ‘I Never Shake Hands With A Left-Handed Draw’ - Johnny Guitar (1954) 8. ‘We’ll Fool Saint Peter Yet’ - Vera Cruz (1954) 9. ‘I Came A Thousand Miles To Kill You’ - The Man from Laramie (1955) 10. ‘That’ll Be The Day’ - The Searchers (1956) 11. ‘There’s A Hundred More Tombstones’ - Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957) 12. ‘I Bet That Rattler Died’ - Forty Guns (1957) 13. ‘There’s Some Things A Man Just Can’t Ride Around’ - Ride Lonesome (1959) 14. ‘I’d Hate To Have To Live On The Difference’ - Rio Bravo (1959) 15. ‘We Deal In Lead, Friend’ - The Magnificent Seven (1960) 16. ‘I Seen The Other Side Of Your Face’ - One-Eyed Jacks (1961) 17. ‘All I Want Is To Enter My House Justified’ - Ride the High Country (1962) 18. ‘Ain’t You Got No Respect For Your Elders?’ - The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) 19. ‘The End Of The Line’ - Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 20. ‘The Fastest Finger In The West’ - Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) 21. ‘This Time We Do It Right’ - The Wild Bunch (1969) 22. ‘Who Are Those Guys?’ - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 23. ‘I Got Poetry In Me’ - McCabe & Mrs Miller (1971) 24. ‘Here In This Land, Man Must Have Power’ - Ulzana’s Raid (1972) 25. ‘Whooped ’Em Again, Josey’ - The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) 26. ‘I’ve Always Been Lucky When It Comes To Killing Folks’ - Unforgiven (1992) 27. ‘I’m Your Huckleberry’ - Tombstone (1993) Filmography Bibliography Index

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Explores the Western, running from John Ford's "Stagecoach" to the revisionary "Tombstone". This work researches 27 key films, and draws on production notes, cast and crew biographies, and the films' box-office success, to reveal their place in western history. It also examines comedy westerns, and the depiction of Native Americans on screen.

About the Author

Howard Hughes is a UK-based film writer and researcher. He is the author of the I.B.Tauris 'Filmgoers' Guides' and 'Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood'.

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'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