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Author by: Dan LeMayLanguange: enPublisher by: McFarlandFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 66Total Download: 764File Size: 46,8 MbDescription: Although much has been written about the 1950s cult film The Searchers, Alan LeMay, the author of the novel upon which the movie is based, has received little attention. This welcome biography tells the engaging story of the career freelance writer who sold his first story at age 19 and never held a permanent job.
LeMay gained success in the 1930s writing Westerns and in the 1940s penning scripts for “big outdoor” films but he is best remembered for Searchers (1953) and another novel adapted into a popular film, The Unforgiven (1957). Sometimes rich but frequently poor, LeMay supported a family with his writing and engaged in a variety of ventures, including cattle ranching, polo playing, flying, and road racing. This narrative of his unconventional life offers an insider’s view of Hollywood and conveys the unique stresses of a career in screenwriting. Author by: Alan Le MayLanguange: enPublisher by: Kensington Publishing Corp.Format Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 99Total Download: 912File Size: 47,8 MbDescription: The “epic” novel of violence and vengeance in the American West—and the basis for John Ford’s classic film starring John Wayne (Kirkus Reviews). Film director John Ford’s The Searchers defined the spirit of America, influenced a generation of filmmakers, and was named the Greatest Western Movie of All Time by the American Film Institute. Now, experience the original story—a timeless work of vivid, raw western fiction and a no-holds-barred portrait of the American frontier.
From the moment they left their homestead unguarded on that scorching Texas day, Martin Pauley and Amos Edwards became searchers. First, they had to return to the decimated ranch, bury the bodies of their family, and confront the evil cunning of the Comanche who had slaughtered them. Then the pair set out in pursuit of missing Debbie Edwards. In the years that followed, Pauley and Edwards would endure storms of nature and of men, both of them seeking more than a missing girl—and more than revenge. Driven by secrets, guilt, love, and rage, and defying the dangers all around them, the two men would become a frontier legend, searching for the one moment. The one last battle.
That will finally set them free. In this “drama of stubborn courage.
To which the prose lends a matching stature,” Alan LeMay crafted one of the most enduring western tales ever—and inspired a work of cinematic genius that still stands to this day (Kirkus Reviews). Author by: Alan LeMayLanguange: enPublisher by: AmazonencoreFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 18Total Download: 560File Size: 50,5 MbDescription: CATTLE WAR Times were tough in Wolf Bench.and they were about to get tougher. Low beef prices had all the cattlemen going hungry, and rumbling bellies led to itchy trigger fingers. Only one man had been able to keep things under rein, and that was John Mason, not only the most powerful cattleman in the area, but the head of the bank to boot. But then Mason was killed.
With Mason dead, all bets were off-and everyone knew it. Every spread for miles around was arming themselves for an all-out range war. Boundaries were going to be re-drawn, fences moved and moved back.and men were going to die.
Before it all ended there would be a lot of blood spilled on the.WINTER RANGE. Author by: Alan LeMayLanguange: enPublisher by: AmazonencoreFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 24Total Download: 802File Size: 44,5 MbDescription: 'The Texas Panhandle was a harsh and unforgiving place, but the Zachary family managed to get. Until their world was upended by an old enemy who started a vicious rumor about the true identity of beautiful seventeen-year-old Rachel Zachary. Now their neighbors want her dead, and a band of Kiowa warriors are out to claim her for their own.
There's only one man who will stand up for her. But in protecting Rachel, he might just be signing his own death warrant.' -From the back cover. Author by: Glenn FrankelLanguange: enPublisher by: Bloomsbury Publishing USAFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 30Total Download: 801File Size: 41,6 MbDescription: New York Times Bestseller Named one of the best books of the year by: Parade The Guardian Kirkus Library Journal The true story behind the classic Western The Searchers by Pulitzer Prize-wining writer Glenn Frankel that the New York Times calls 'A vivid, revelatory account of John Ford's 1956 masterpiece.' In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior.
Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. Cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told and re-told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and in the 1950s to a novel by Alan LeMay, which would be adapted into one of Hollywood's most legendary films, The Searchers, 'The Biggest, Roughest, Toughest.
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And Most Beautiful Picture Ever Made!' Directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. Glenn Frankel, beginning in Hollywood and then returning to the origins of the story, creates a rich and nuanced anatomy of a timeless film and a quintessentially American myth. The dominant story that has emerged departs dramatically from documented history: it is of the inevitable triumph of white civilization, underpinned by anxiety about the sullying of white women by 'savages.' What makes John Ford's film so powerful, and so important, Frankel argues, is that it both upholds that myth and undermines it, baring the ambiguities surrounding race, sexuality, and violence in the settling of the West and the making of America.
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Author by: Alan Le MayLanguange: enPublisher by: Thomas T. Beeler PublisherFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 35Total Download: 113File Size: 42,6 MbDescription: Billy Wheeler was a hard-riding cowboy, a rancher, and a student of legal procedure- a Renaissance man of the old west. Horse Dunn owns one of the biggest spreads in the desert country known as the 94. Mysterious murders are taking place. Billy's unraveling of these murders will ultimately save the ranch for Marion Dunn and win him her heart. Author by: Alan Le MayLanguange: enPublisher by: Five Star (ME)Format Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 13Total Download: 217File Size: 41,9 MbDescription: Alan LeMay produced a number of classic Western novels including The Searchers and The Unforgiven, both of which became classic motion pictures.
Among the eleven stories included here is 'Whack-Ear's Pup,' in which a cowboy finds a small puppy abandoned on the plains and brings it back to the Triangle R. When the puppy kills the pet jackrabbit of the owner's daughter, a crisis is precipitated. In 'Strange Fellow,' drifter Dan Torkaway shows up at the Triangle R looking for work. His only possession is a beautiful black horse but trouble erupts when a stranger rides in intent on killing Torkaway's stallion. 'Feud Fight' is a gripping narrative of range wars, a new one that threatens, and one in the past that led to bloodshed.
The Searchers Alan Le May
LeMay's stories are written with all the fabulous vitality of the frontier, and he is able to bring to life interesting characters that, once encountered, become unforgettable. Alan LeMay was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida. He lived most of his life as a rancher in Santee, California.
After a long three-year absence, the battle-scarred Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, Ethan Edwards, turns up on the remote and dusty Texan homestead of his brother, Aaron. In high hopes of finding peace, instead, the taciturn former soldier will embark on a treacherous five-year odyssey of retribution, when the ruthless Chief Scar's murderous Comanche raiding party massacre his family, burn the ranch to the ground and abduct his nine-year-old niece, Debbie. Driven by hatred of Indians, Ethan and his young companion, Martin Pawley, ride through the unforgiving desert to track down their lost Debbie; however, is the woman they lost and the prisoner in Scar's teepee still the same woman the searchers seek?
John Ford is a classic Western filmmaker (though certainly not the only genre in which he excelled), employing the classic Western film star, John Wayne, in perhaps one of the most underappreciated films of our time. Ford builds a thoroughly entertaining movie which explores classic Western themes without necessarily relying on these themes to drive the plot. Like any good Western, we are inorexably drawn to a kind of Cowboys vs. Indians saga, but Ford manages to draw us into the conflict in such a way that the mere 'Cowboys good, Indians bad' aesthetic isn't really applicable here. While relying on the archetypical roles of the two groups to set up a conflict, Ford is ahead of his time in managing to characterize the Indians as more than 'noble savages'. Wayne's character's (Ethan Edwards) hatred of 'the Commanch' is called into question a number of times, especially in his stormy relationship with adopted nephew and fellow searcher Martin Pawley (Jeffrey Hunter), who we are told is a quarter-Indian himself, and cannot bring himself to find the same sort of hatred for the Indians that Ethan holds.
Ethan was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War, returning to his brother's Texas homestead after the war. A group of Commanches, led by the ominous Chief Scar, route and kill his brother's family while Ethan and Martin are investigating a cattle rustling, the Commaches' diversionary tactic. The Indians took the family's youngest daughter, and the majority of the film has us following Ethan and Martin in their attempts to track down Scar and take back the girl, Debbie (played by Lorna and Natalie Wood, at different times). Such a situation sets up one of the many moral ambiguities that make this more than an ordinary Western: the Commanches slaughtered Ethan's brother and his family - he seemingly has reason to hate them with the almost crazy passion that he does. Yet the more naive Martin cannot bring himself to hate them in such a way, and the split between them becomes a major point of contention when it becomes clear that Debbie has more or less been adopted as a Commanche (the two 'Searchers' chase after her for about five years in film time). Furthermore, when the two 'Searchers' actually meet Scar, who they've been chasing for years, he is presented as a rather intelligent character, although certainly one filled with vengance - he, too, has his reasons for waging war with the likes of Ethan and Martin, and cannot merely be written off a the type of bloodthirsty savage that is typical of the portrayal of most Indians within the genre.
The film relies on enough classic Western material to imbue with the feel with the sense of such pictures. Aside from the question of Ethan's morality, Wayne plays him with classic John Wayne freewheeling confidence and swagger that made the actor such an icon, and it comes off quite well.
We are also given a side story involving Martin's romance with the hard-as-nails Laurie Jurgensen (played by Vera Miles, best known for playing Janet Leigh's sister in 'Psycho'). The relationship is from a classic, archetypical Western mold - the two have been in love since they were kids, but Martin has responsibilites to his family that stop him from making the proper time for his beau, and his rough frontier-uprbringing leave him seemingly lacking the proper sensitivity for dealing with Laura (though he does, of course, have a heart of gold).
As a side note, this film should prove immensely interesting to any serious fan of the 'Star Wars' trilogy (the original one). While those films undoubtably draw a great deal of inspiration from Kurosawa's samurai films, there is most certainly a great deal (especially in the film subtitled 'A New Hope') drawn from here. One scene in particular (when Luke returns to his farm after stormtroopers have blasted in pieces) is virtually ripped straight from 'The Searchers'. Ford's film is also full of the sort of gallows humor present throughout the trilogy, and even incorporates some rather goofy characters, the half-cracked Mose Harper (Hank Warden) and the incredibly over-the-top rival for Laura's hand Charlie McCorry (Ken Curtis), without ruining the overall serious feel of the film, but managing to squeeze laughs out of absurd situations (such as a fight between Martin and Charlie) without compromising the ability to quickly return to a solemn tone. Such deft touch, as well as the addition of wise-cracking dialogue (provided largely by Wayne and Ward Bond here) are a large part of what made the original trilogy so successful, and it's strikingly similar to the type of paradigm on display between various characters here. Regardless of ranting and raving about Star Wars, however, this is an excellent film on it's own merit.