The Truth About Westerns! Living Film History from Wayne! Flynn! Blake! Rode! Word!

Digging deep into film masterpieces by John Ford and Michael Curtiz took place at the Lone Pine Film Festival by a panel of experts. Their eye-opening stories about making Western classics are a must for fans of the genre. How close to the truth were the films made by two Western master filmmakers? The topic during most of the discussion were directors John Ford and Michael Curtiz. They made classics and usually cast their alter egos. For Ford it was Duke Wayne. For Curtiz, it was his discovery, Errol Flynn.

Included on the panel was Patrick Wayne, co-star with his father in the last film of Michael Curtiz. It was a western, THE COMANCHEROS. Another guest was the daughter of Errol Flynn, photographer, model, author Rory Flynn, who shared memories of her father and his adventurous background.

Joining Wayne and Flynn was award winning author and makeup artist, Michael F. Blake whose books include “The Cavalry Trilogy,” “Code of Honor: The Making of HIGH NOON, SHANE and THE SEARCHERS, “Cowboy President,” “Hollywood and the O.K. Corral,” and film noir authority and author Alan K. Rode, whose books include “Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film,” and “Blood on the Moon” for the University of New Mexico Press, among others.

Producer and western film scholar Rob Word hosted the panel, October 12, 2024, during the Lone Pine Film Festival.

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