The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh

The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1973

Runtime

1h 25m

User Score

70%

Original Title

The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh

Director

Richard Schickel

Description

In 1972 and '73, film critic Richard Schickel made an 8-part series for American public television: 'The Men Who Made the Movies'. Each episode featured a prominent Hollywood director discussing his career in an on-camera monologue (actually an interview, with Schickel's questions edited out), interspersed with generous clips from his most famous films, accompanied by somewhat overwrought narration (written by Schickel and spoken by Cliff Robertson). It's regrettable that Schickel did not include Fritz Lang, William Wyler and John Ford in this series: all three were alive at the time, although Ford was quite ill.