Raoul Walsh Was a Movie Maker With an Eye Patch and Attitude

[Joe Riley]

An Eclectic Journal of Opinion, History, Poetry and General Bloviating​

"Raoul Walsh, the director in an eye patch long before John Ford or Nicholas Ray, had a long career in films spanning the pioneering years of D. W. Griffith in the silents to wide screen Technicolor epics of the mid-‘60s. He specialized in action pictures—gritty crime dramas, westerns, war movies. Meaty parts for women—with a few notable exceptions—were rare and his friend Jack Pickford (elder brother of Mary) told him that “Your idea of light comedy is to burn down a whorehouse.” In the process he made some of the most memorable films in Hollywood history never to win Oscars." READ MORE

 

[Joe Riley]

RAOUL WALSH

 

[Joe Riley]

Raoul WALSH: the Men who Made the Movies (TV) 1973​