Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director

Raoul Walsh (1887-1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early generation of directors-along with John Ford and Howard Hawks-who worked in the fledgling film industry of the early twentieth century, learning to make movies with shoestring budgets. Walsh's generation invented a Hollywood that made mov

Author: Marilyn Ann Moss
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 06/17/2011
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.98lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.48w x 1.47d
ISBN: 9780813133935

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2011 pg. 101
Booklist 06/01/2011 pg. 30
Choice 01/01/2012

About the Author

Marilyn Ann Moss is the author of Giant: George Stevens, A Life on Film and has published numerous articles on writers such as Paul Bowles, Theodore Dreiser, and Frank Norris. She was a television critic for The Hollywood Reporter from 1995 to 2009.

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