Six-Gun Law: he Westerns of Randolph Scott, Audie Murphy, Joel McCrea and George Montgomery

by Barry Atkinson

The modern Western is so intent on portraying the West as it really was that the end product comes across as a tedious, dimly photographed exercise in grime, gloom and doom. Westerns of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s may not have been entirely accurate in their depiction of the Old West, but they moved like wildfire and entertained prewar and postwar audiences by the millions. Sadly, the classic American Western no longer exists--where good guys...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936168545
• ISBN13: 9781936168545
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"