The Westerners
Interviews with Actors, Directors, Writers and Producers
C. Courtney Joyner
Foreword by Miles Swarthout
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2009

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From the Publisher:
Actors, writers, directors and producers who helped define the genre offer unique insight about western movies from the early talkies to the present. Interviewed here are Glenn Ford, Warren Oates, Virginia Mayo, Andrew V. McLaglen, Harry Carey, Jr., Julie Adams, A.C. Lyles, Burt Kennedy, Edward Faulkner, Aldo Sambrell, Jack Elam, Andrew J. Fenady, and Elmore Leonard. Movies they discuss include Red River, The Searchers, 3:10 toYuma, High Noon, Bend of the River, Rio Bravo, The Wild Bunch, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, among many others.

From the Foreword:
"Courtney Joyner has done it again! Taken fans back to those thrilling days of yesteryear and the heyday of the movie and TV Westerns of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, when cowboys and cowgirls ruled America's airwaves. Courtney's interviews with some of the movie icons of that Golden Era of the screen Western are enlightening, and his encyclopedic knowledge of Western films and mostly forgotten directors has elicited fascinating stories about the making of some their more important films."   ---Miles Swarthout

Softcover. 266 pp. 70 photos. Bibliography and Index.

About the Author:
{>} C. Courtney Joyner is a screenwriter with more than 20 produced films to his credit. He has contributed chapters to a number of books on film history and his articles have appeared in Wildest Westerns, Fangoria and Famous Monsters of Filmland.

At the most recent Western Writers of America conference, C. Courtney Joyner was presented with The President's Award for "Outstanding Service to WWA" by Chairman Paul Andrew Hutton and WWA's Johnny Boggs. Courtney has been a judge for the prestigious WWA Spur Awards for Drama and Documentary Writing for the last five years, and has served on numerous writing panels, with a focus on the current western market and screenwriting.