Some other Westerns I would submit to the ones already
mentioned here are Ulzana's Raid, a very tough Burt Lancaster
movie about the Army tracking a renegade Apache, and a quirky
70s revisionist Western called The Great Northfield Minnesota
Raid (same robbery that climaxed The Long Riders), which
starred Robert Duvall as Jesse James. I thought Kevin Costner
and company made a complex and intelligent hard-boiled
Western in Wyatt Earp. Coogan's Bluff is a great modern hb
Western directed by Don Siegel. Lastly, attempting to link
two threads on the list this week, I first saw Maury Chaykin
in a short but unforgettable role as the insane fort
commander in Dances with Wolves, as the man who signs
Costner's pass to the remote outpost and then shoots
himself.
I just bought a book called Swamp Sister by Robert Edmond
Alter. It lists him as also having written Carny Kill. I
can't remember if he was discussed in a recent thread on hb
mysteries with carnival settings. Anyone have any comments
about this book or author?
I am reading an ARC of Burke's Purple Cane Road, the plot of
which is Dave's investigation of his prostitute mother's
murder. Hmm. So far it's typical Burke, and all that that
entails. This plot line is apparently now an established
sub-genre of hb.
Martha
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