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White Horse, Black Hat
A Quarter Century on Hollywood's Poverty Row
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2002
Summary
From the silent era into the early days of television, hundreds of small production companies turned out low-budget films that were played as second features in this country and abroad. As might be expected, a high percentage of these films were Westerns. The people who made these films—producers, directors, writers, actors, and technicians—inhabited what came to be known as Poverty Row, eking out a living doing a job they loved.
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.
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Copyright year
2002
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-4358-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4617-3108-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
243
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Table of Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1: Tom Mix Ain't a Drink! No access Pages 1 - 10
2: Return of the Cherokee Kid No access Pages 11 - 18
3: Lash. Fuzzy. and I No access Pages 19 - 32
4: Down the Celluloid Trail No access Pages 33 - 52
5: The Balancing Act No access Pages 53 - 72
6: From Wonsan to Mamie Stover No access Pages 73 - 88
7: The Heroes of Poverty Row No access Pages 89 - 102
8: Back to the Ormonds No access Pages 103 - 112
9: Riders Along the Trail No access Pages 113 - 134
10: The Directors No access Pages 135 - 142
11: On Down the Trail No access Pages 143 - 170
12: The Screenwriters No access Pages 171 - 180
13: Of Guys and Gags No access Pages 181 - 196
14: And Then There Was Television No access Pages 197 - 208
15: End of the Trail No access Pages 209 - 228
16: Into the Sunset No access Pages 229 - 232
Index No access Pages 233 - 242
About the Author No access Pages 243 - 243
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