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A sweeping late‑nineteenth‑century cattle drive from Texas to Montana follows former Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and William F. Call as they confront the American West's myths, love, and violence in this epic of adventure and friendship.

A Texas-born writer, Danny Deck journeys from Houston to California in pursuit of literary success, discovering new friendships and complex relationships along the way.

From the back cover: This seminal book restores the screenwriter to his true place in the history of American films. The brilliant young critic Richard Corliss aims to correct the imbalance of the auteur theorists, who make the director solely responsible for the film as a work of art. Seeing the writer as a vital, though much ignored, link in film creation, Corliss surveys a hundred motion pictures written by thirty-eight screenwriters, from Ben Hecht, Preston Sturges, and Dalton Trumbo to Terry Southern, Buck Henry, and Jules Feiffer. “The films that receive the highest praise in this book,” he says, “are those whose writers and directors — in creative association with the actors and technicians — worked together toward a collaborative vision.” Because it covers so much ’so well, *Talking Pictures* is an indispensable cinematic reference work. it also deserves to rank among the very few books that have revolutionized the way we look at films.

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