RAOUL WALSH - EN JEUX

13.1 x 19 cm / 336 pages / August 2023

ISBN : 978-2-35137-351-4

Edited by Mathieu Macheret

Authors: Damien Bertrand, Jean Breschand, Olivia Cooper-Hadjian, Gilles Esposito, Pierre Eugène, Pierre Gabaston, Murielle Joudet, Laura Laufer, Gaël Lépingle, Mathieu Macheret, Florence Maillard, Frédéric Mercier, Jean-François Rauger, Jean-Marie Samocki, Grégory Schneider, Gaël Teicher, Marcos Uzal

In French only

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Westerns, films noirs, comedies... Silents, talkies, black and white, colour... A first film in 1914, a last one in 1964, over one hundred and thirty films in all... What is the best way to look at Raoul Walsh?

A monster filmography, an autobiography (Half a Century in Hollywood) of such density that the biographical exercise would make little sense, a variety of themes and genres making the critical and monographic exercise endless...

So let's take it from here: like the relationships between John Wayne and John Ford, Katharine Hepburn and George Cukor, James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, Walsh nurtured long partnerships with some of Hollywood's most essential actors, each playing a specific role in his cinema.

Raoul Walsh - En jeux is a tour of the filmography of this one-eyed genius through these collaborations forming an American odyssey, from his own role in David Wark Griffith's Birth of a Nation, to his ultimate masterpiece, A Distant Trumpet, his only collaboration with Troy Donahue, via four films with James Cagney and Ida Lupino, seven with Errol Flynn, three with Clark Gable...