Assembly-Line Auteur
David Meuel
Broschiertes Buch

Assembly-Line Auteur

The Pre-Code Films of William Wellman

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Of the many stories from Hollywood's vibrant, free-wheeling pre-Code era, one of the most intriguing is also one that, until now, has not received its full due: the astonishing achievement of director William "Wild Bill" Wellman during his epic three-year run at Warner Brothers. Between 1930 and 1933, Wellman directed 18 feature films and co-directed another, almost all on the studio's busy production assembly line. What makes this achievement especially notable is not so much the number but the very high quality of roughly half of them--films that resonate deeply with audiences today. These r...