DUVALL! CARRADINES! JOHN FORD! Western Legends with Writer/Director Walter Hill with Rob Word AWOW!
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- BROKEN TRAIL! THE LONG RIDERS! GERONIMO! THE WARRIORS! Award winning writer/director Walter Hill joins host Rob Word to talk about his experiences making westerns and of legendary Hollywood directors John Ford, Raoul Walsh, Budd Boetticher, and Sam Fuller.
Walter shares a fresh take on brothers playing brothers in the classic western THE LONG RIDERS (1980). It was David, Keith and Robert Carradine, James and Stacy Keach, Dennis and Randy Quaid, Nicholas and Christopher Guest were perfectly cast. How well did they get along? Walter recalls directing BROKEN TRAIL (2006), the successful and Emmy-winning mini-series with Robert Duvall and Thomas Hayden Church. The film changed the way AMC programed the network. It was Hill’s second outing with the Academy Award winning actor. They had worked together on GERONIMO. What was Duvall like? Walter dedicated his script THE GETAWAY to veteran director Raoul Walsh (HIGH SIERRA, WHITE HEAT) met with the aging legend and told him he wanted to become a film director. What advice, both memorable and funny, did the legendary director give the young writer? Was his blockbuster gang movie THE WARRIORS really a western?
Find out from Walter as he looks back at some of his most memorable movies in this episode of A WORD ON WESTERNS, recorded April 18, 2017 at the Autry. Plus, you’ll see Walter receive a Western Heritage Award in Oklahoma City for his latest western, DEAD FOR A DOLLAR, presented by Robert Carradine in 2023.
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Walter Hill has written and directed so many great films, many of them my favorites, that there’s just not enough time to talk about all of them.
always great . thanks again, keep em coming.
Thanks, will do!
Very cool interview 🌵🐴
Wow. I'm a huge, huge fan of Walter Hill. And a Walter Hill interview is such a good get. So lucky, Rob. This was a delight to watch. Thank you Rob. Sincerely.
Thanks, Ace. I could listen to Walter for hours. Such a wealth of knowledge and film.
WOW, indeed! Screenwriter of one of my top movies, "The Getaway."
Good score for an interview, Rob!
What a way to start off the new year! Walter Hill is one of my all-time favorite director and screen writer as well. You can tell that he learned from the best when you listen to his interview with you Rob, when he talks about John Ford, Howard Hawks, Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah, Raoul Walsh, Bud Boetticher, Samuel Fuller... That's western movie history right there! And Walter Hill certainly belongs to this fine group. Drinking my sunday morning coffee while watching you guys talk movies... Life is beautiful!
Thanks, Ranger. Walter is a living link to Hollywood's Golden Age directors and following proudly in their footsteps.
@@AWordonWesterns Thank you. He’s also one of my favorite directors. And his Westerns are all worth watching. Actually, all his movies are really Westerns. And I love them all.
Walter Hill, what a director!
Love Walter Hill's films, this is when American cinema was great, not the trash it is now.
Hearing Walter Hill share stories - and his sense of humor - couldn't have been more of a pleasure for this Sunday afternoon. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.
Thank you Mr. Hill. Great, great work. Really, true.
A director you can always count on. Long Riders is a film every Western fan should see, more than once to catch the details, the music and the reactions between real life brothers playing brothers. Honestly I saw it twenty three times in four theaters, two states and many times since with dvd.
What a grande interview with another of my favorite actor's. 👍👍5k🌟🤠
Not sure if I told you about this , when we met in Williamsburg, VA..,.Good ol' Bobby Duvall had a great Cafe-style restaurant in Fallhill, VA, near the Cattle Auction, market there. I found it by before buying my last horse back in the 1990's, and there he was behind the counter. Stunned, I walked up and offered 'Countless thanks for the years of grand entertainment you have shown us all."
He offered me a beer, in appreciation/thanks, that I couldn't take. and we almost had a conflict, over the "no" head shake'. That we settled it over lunch. (LOL) Wish I'd had a camera with me then too, as I do everywhere I go now.
❤. Another fantastic interview. I was curious how a relatively younger person was so familiar with classic Westerns. The story about meeting John Ford in 1955 (my birth year) revealed that you are my senior. Well sir you wear it well. Thank you again.
Always nice to hear comments like yours, Rich. Thanks!
Love this show.
Thank you Rob, brilliant interview, some great story's from Walter Hill, the one about the leading ladies is probably the funniest, and obviously very good advice.
Walter Hill...what a great story teller..the voice, the tales of classic Hollywood, wonderful.
What a great way to start the new year with the great Walter Hill . I hope I don't offend anyone when I say he is our generations Ford. Mr Hill has directed so many classics not just westerns a movie of his that never gets talked about Southern Comfort is one of my favourites. Thanks Rob for this interview.
Just went to a screening of SOUTHERN COMFORT a couple of months ago with Bobby Carradine. Walter, Keith and Michael Mann were there! What a night.
Many thanks, Rob, RJ and Team AWOW, for another interesting program. Walter Hill is a very fine director and screenwriter. It was a pleasure listening to him reminisce. Very informative. And I was also a fan of Lynne Thigpen. She died way too soon. Many thanks again. Best of health to you all, and Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
What a score! I honestly cannot think of a single film directed by him that I disliked. Loved them all frankly.
Thank you for another great interview. I always enjoy the stories your guests tell and always look forward to what you share. Thank you again!
Thanks, ginny
@@AWordonWesterns You're welcome. Looking forward to more.
What a wonderful man. Great interview.
What a great interview. The wonderful movies directed by Walter Hill and John Ford are the type of movies you can watch over and over again. Thanks, Rob.
fantastic interview. Got my 4k of the searchers today, and since that film figures so much into your history with westerns I thought that this was a good thing to watch before i hit play on THE SEARCHERS. I think I'll follow that up with Hill's Geronimo.
It's a terrific restoration, hawk. Hope you've got a BIG screen!
Great episode.
Thanks for this.
Our pleasure!
Walter Hill,,,, Just Like "Rob Word",,, Very Talented,,, My Favorite,,, "Rob Word" and Broken Trail,,,
Could be your best episode yet.
You knocked it out of the park AWOW. Excellent!
Thanks, Crow
Loved it, Rob! Walter is very interesting, not much emotion, but very interesting.
Awesome! Love 'Hard Times' and others I didn't know he directed. Fun interview Rob!
He looks great. Can't believe he's 82.
Scrambled eggs, hash browns and AWOW. My Sunday is starting real fine.
Enjoy your Sunday, frank.
Lynne Thigpen was such a terrific actress. So sad she died very young.
Great conversation!
Thanks, Rose. It's nice to see her mentioned. Thanks, Walter!
Don’t screw the leading lady as the Director. Best advice I ever heard, in any place of work.
Thank you.👍💯
Thank you again for another good show. A great watch for a cold raining day here in NE Oklahoma 🌨❤❤
You've got some cold weather coming in, too, dove. Stay cozy with AWOW!!
Broken Trail, Just Wonderful!
Yes, it's extraordinary, steven. Thanks
@@AWordonWesterns
Long Riders or The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid?
That was a great🎉 interview he's kind of like I don't know you get guys that are really fast talking he's got like when you tell that story just he just kind of I don't know tells it in a way you have to kind of stay with it you're doing great here👍 I'm 65 I grew up with all this stuff and so many people are gone on the next Trail easy to forget so this is great another great interview💯🤠
Thanks, caveman. Keep on boogieing to the western beat!
@AWordonWesterns 😅😆🤣
One of my all time favorite scenes was the Northfield raid shootout in the Long Riders. The stage coach scene with Mr. Carey as well. It must have been awesome to be at the filming off the searchers as a child, to see the making of film history, and as it turned out a small part of music history as well, with That'll Be The Day, by Buddy Holly, after watching the movie.
I'm a lucky kid, alright.
Thomas Haden Church also appeared in “Tombstone-1993. Geronimo “I always thought was Walter Hills greatest western. Learning to ride making “The Cowboys”obviously paid off for Robert Carradine! High praise indeed from the wrangler. 48 Hours with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy( in his first film) is another great Walter Hill movie.I just watched a little bit of “Run Of The Arrow” with Charles Bronson and Rod Steiger. Looks interesting.
Thanks, buddy. There a many parallels in DANCES WITH WOLVES and RUN OF THE ARROW, too.
Chalk up another great interview Rob. I keep hoping you’ll have Robert Duvall on someday but he way up in age now. Great actor and American 🇺🇸 Broken Trail was fantastic and part true story.
What a way to start out the year Walter fun to listen to pretty cool that venagar started last year with southern comfort 4k one of Walter's films you have to respect someone willing to talk about movies he does same thing on the disc
Great director mate
Cool interview with Walter Hill.
#uplatewithjohnnypotenza
Streets of Fire! Hard Times!
Great interview but was real interested on the hat on the table, were those actual signatures? Way cool, the great Roy Rogers right on the front, curious of the other names.
Ha! I've been collecting signatures of people who contributed to westerns on that hat so long that there's no more room! SOME of them are: Bronson, Heston, Moore, Bridges, Rogers, Malden, Fuller, Graves, Brimley, Montalban, Fenady, Woodward, Boxleitner, Kove, Needham, Hopkins, Brown, Holliman, Prine, Mulkey, Harris, Garner, Crawford, Reynolds, Montgomery, Taylor, Poitier, etc, etc. And some women, too: Anne Jeffries, Barbara Hale, Dale Evans, Ruta Lee, Donna Martell, Carroll Baker, Jan Shepard, etc, etc.
@@AWordonWesterns Wow! So cool, you could do an episode on the just the hat, love the series.
Broken Trail had one of the main characters using a 1866 carbine through the whole move with the front sight/barrel band missing. Take time to aim with nothing to aim with .
Long Riders is my favorite Jesse James movie. I found that it does have a lot of accurate scenes. I’m not a lover of the real bad guys. I like seeing them get theirs Desert.
Walter received a Western Heritage Award , "presented by Robert Carradine in 1923." They are much older than I thought! Just kidding. Great episode!
Ahh. Corrected. It's nice to know someone's reading the Descriptions I write. Thanks, Paul.
WALTER HILL no relation, but what a guy, a HOLLYWOOD triple-thgreat of being a writer, producer and director...
As Rob said speaking of his great movies, a man who came in at the tail-end of the HOLLYWOOD system, but unlike others he really has a deep affection and respect for the old-time directors like John Ford, Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh. As a director, he kept alive and fresh the western genre, taking it well in to the 1980's and 90's.
I think his best skill was as a writer as he delivered in the 1970's, films like THE GETAWAY and THE MACKINTOSH MAN, THE DRIVER and THE LONG RIDERS. Unfortunately, HOLLYWOOD is not known for respecting and giving work to its iconic and aging masters, and sadly in the case of Ford, Hawks and Walsh they didn't go out with hit or even good movies before retirement. With Walter Hill he kept working but mainly as part of a group of "producers" as with all the endless ALIEN movies and it's sequels.
When you look at the credits of any TV show or movie now its a list of two-dozen or more producers, anyone who even touched the script got a credit and a piece of the action, no wonder so many projects fail or don't even get a chance to as they've exhausted their budgets in pre-production. When I started out in the late 1970's a TV show rarely had more than four producers on Quinn Martin, Aaron Spelling, Michael Landon shows... and by the time I retired ob BONES, they had twenty.
Walter Hill was in the proverbial right place at the right time, and because of his writing skills and those movies becoming hits, he got his chance to direct. On STREETS OF FIRE he got to direct his own co-written script, it was supposed to be the start of a trilogy, and I was working at Universal then and saw the production each day and it was a disaster... because of so many night scenes they decided to tarp the whole New York street area of the backlot, but of course tarping 5 acres of sets wasn't going to keep out the daylight or the winds.
One of my Hill favorites was SOUTHERN COMFORT, which really was a reworking of DELIVERANCE, but what made it good was there were no physical sets but the swamp, and a great script, cast and directing. As with so many film-makers that are unknown to today's audiences, when you look back at their work especially the so-called movies that did poorly, you really see them in a new light and not just because they were HD remastered.
It's out of respect for Rob and WOW, that you get a great director like Walter Hill to come in person and talk and interact... thats because Rob really knows his stuff and admires those that he does interview, and it shows!
Thanks, Graham, for the always informative comments...and the nice things you said about me, too!
Are you taping at the Autry Museum? If so, what’s the schedule?
After 11 years, viewers are asking for longer episode so we've begun taping on location because I can let the interviews go longer.
John Ford in the Irish, and of course British tradition would, cast and crew included, break during filming for afternoon high tea. The irony being that no Irish or even British director was ever known to do likewise on a film set for the same observance.
Not sure about Ford, but Sam Peckinpah would never let an actor choose his own hat, that is unless Sam stomped on it and kicked it around in the dirt first till he was satisfied that it had that well worn look of authenticity.
Howard Hawks made Dean Martin go back to wardrobe and pick out the dirtiest, most sweat stained raggedy looking lid he could find, when Dean showed up wearing the much too clean and stylish Stetson he'd picked out for his role in "Rio Bravo", telling Dean, "You're supposed to be a drunk, not some Ivy League dude from back East". Or words to that effect.
Usually enjoy the interviews because I grew up on Westerns, but this gentleman can't seem to stop swearing!! Especially taking God's name in vain. This is the 1st time I had to shut your program down.
Can't speak for everyone but I don't consider David Carradine a Hollywood legend. His father John maybe.
You are quite right. David had relations with Season Hubley, Barbara Hershey, his hand and a rope, as well as others.
Chalk up another great interview Rob. I keep hoping you’ll have Robert Duvall on someday but he way up in age now. Great actor and American 🇺🇸 Broken Trail was fantastic and part true story.