the contextual life

Crash Course in Western

• Top Westerns of All Time (film)
• Western Fiction: an overview (books)
• List of TV Westerns (tv) 
• Famous Western Actors (film)
• Western Authors (books) 
• Popular Cowboy Movies (film) 
• Top Ten Western Novels (books) 
• Ten Best Western Movie Soundtracks (music)
• Twenty Movie Cowgirls (film) 

“If only the police would not arrive until after the last toast had been lifted.”

The Expendable Man / Dorothy B. Hughes

“There’d been traffic between here and Phoenix, but the closer he drew to Phoenix, the less he cared. Phoenix was a city. In a city, people were too busy with their own affairs to wonder about a strangely assorted couple.”

The Expendable Man / Dorothy B. Hughes

“I hope to Christ they don’t hang you, precious, by that sweet neck.”—Sam Spade

The Maltese Falcon / Dashiell Hammett

“Uncle Henry never laughed. He worked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was.”

The Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum

“She’d make a jazzy week-end, but she’d be wearing for a steady diet.”—Philip Marlowe

The Big Sleep / Raymond Chandler

“He wasn’t the kind of man you could depend on to ensure a democracy.”

He Died with His Eyes Open / Derek Raymond

“Knowing other people’s business is the worst investment a man can make in my circle.”—Eddie Mars

The Big Sleep / Raymond Chandler

Super Fly (1972)

Backed by Curtis Mayfield’s enticing score, this groovy 1970s action drama stars Ron O’Neal as big, bad Youngblood Priest, a cocaine dealer who realizes the thug life isn’t for him and puts together one last deal that will net him enough money so he can start over. But he knows his “colleagues” won’t quite agree with his escape plan, so he must find a way to save his soul and come out of the whole mayhem alive.

The Scarf (1951)

John Barrington escapes from an asylum for the criminally-insane and finds refuge on the ranch of turkey-raiser Ezra Thompson. Barrington, who has suffered from amnesia, finds his memory returning slightly and he sets out on his mission of learning the truth about whether or not he really murdered his sweetheart and is actually insane. He goes to Los Angeles to visit his oldest-and-best friend, psychiatrist David Dunbar, who was a witness to Barrington’s crime. Dunbar repeats his story to Barrington, convinces Barrington that he did commit the crime, and then betrays him to the police. However, Thompson, Connie Carter and others are not totally convinced of Barrington’s guilt.

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Despite his aversion to writing, Lucas began painstakingly composing his own science-fiction story: It centered on the adventures of two bickering robots (the future R2-D2 and C-3PO), inspired by the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy as well as the clownish hobo peasants of Akira Kurosawa’s Hidden Fortress.

George Lucas’s Force

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The Royal Tenenbaums / Love Lockdown