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Author C. Jack Lewis spent 25 years in this world of low-budget Westerns, and here he portrays the human side of the industry through the many people with whom he came into contact as he worked his way from film to film. Highly personal, filled with rare glimpses of a life that lives only in the memory of a few, this narrative is a nostalgic memoir of a bygone time, of those who shared life on Poverty Row_and of the hard work, failures, successes, and dreams made or broken. Liberal use of photos helps readers identify the faces they have seen on their television screens in the reruns of these pictures still making the rounds. A must-read for students of film and popular culture_great for fans of Westerns as well.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 1 Tom Mix Ain't a Drink!
Chapter 5 2 The Cherokee Kid's Last Stand
Chapter 6 3 Lash, Fuzzy, and I
Chapter 7 4 Down the Celluloid Trail
Chapter 8 5 The Balancing Act
Chapter 9 6 From Wonsan to Mami Stover
Chapter 10 7 The Heroes of Poverty Row
Chapter 11 8 Back to the Ormonds
Chapter 12 9 Riders Along the Trail
Chapter 13 10 The Directors
Chapter 14 11 On Down the Trail
Chapter 15 12 The Screenwriters
Chapter 16 13 Of Guys and Gags
Chapter 17 14 And Then There Was Television
Chapter 18 15 End of the Trail
Chapter 19 16 Into the Sunset
Chapter 20 Index
Chapter 21 About the Author
Über den Autor / die Autorin
By Jack C. Lewis
Zusammenfassung
An insight into the world of low-budget westerns and Hollywood's "poverty row". C. Jack Lewis recounts his impressions of the directors, screenwriters and stars of these films, showing the human side of the people with whom he came into contact as he made his break into the industry.
