Gunslingers of '69

Brian Hannan writes a regular column for Cinema Retro magazine and gives lectures on film at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland.

“Hannan expertly examines the forty-plus westerns of 1969. As usual, author Brian Hannan is the master of statistics. A very good read.”—Cinema Retro

• Table of Contents PrefaceIntroduction1. The Sound of Silence: The Stalking Moon2. Controversy Runs Wild: 100 Rifles3. The Cleverest Lawman in the West: Support Your Local Sheriff4. Kill the Messenger: Heaven with a Gun and Smith!5. Western as Opera: Once Upon a Time in the West6. The Roadshow That Never Was: Mackenna’s Gold7. Retread of a Retread: Guns of the Magnificent Seven8. Tough Rider: True Grit9. Bloody to the Bone: The Wild Bunch10. The Good, the Bad and the Burt: Young Billy Young • The Good Guys and the Bad Guys11. One Step Ahead of the Audience: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid12. A Roadshow Too Far: Paint Your Wagon13. Pedigree Is Not Enough: The Undefeated14. Cause Célèbre: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here15. Reissue Fever: A Fistful of Dollars • For a Few Dollars More • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly • Hang ’Em High • Return of the Seven • The Stranger • The Stranger Returns16. The Last Round Up: The Great Bank Robbery • The Desperados • Death of a Gunfighter • A Talent for Loving • Charro • A Time for Dying • Sam Whiskey • A Man Called Gannon • Journey to Shiloh • Death Rides a Horse • Day of Anger • A Bullet for the General • God Forgives … I Don’t • The Brute and the Beast • The Man from Nowhere • Ace High • Any Gun Can Play • Payment in Blood • More Dead Than Alive • The Ramrodder • Brand of Shame • Hot SpurConclusionAppendix A: ­City-by-City First Run Opening DatesAppendix B: ­City-by-City First Run Box Office EarningsAppendix C: Annual Rankings of Westerns at the Box Office, 1960–1969Chapter NotesBibliographyIndex