by Steven Bingen (Author)
Here is a portrait of a profoundly American spirit and visionary
the organization that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—has yet to be understood
from startling starters and monstrous mains to depraved desserts and cursed cocktails
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WILD BILL WELLMAN: HOLLYWOOD REBEL CASABLANCA by Steven Bingen (Author)The extraordinary lifethe firstof the legendary, undercelebrated Hollywood director known in his day as Wild Bill (and he was!) Wellman, whose eighty two movies (six of them uncredited), many of them iconic; many of them sharp, cold, brutal; others poetic, moving; all of them a lesson in close up art, ranged from adventure and gangster pictures to comedies, aviation, romances, westerns, and searing social dramas. Among his iconic pictures: the