Budd Boetticher (1916–2001) was a bullfighter, a pleasant madman and a talented journeyman filmmaker who could—with the right material and drive—create a minor Western film classic as easily as he could kill a bull. Yet pain and passion naturally mixed in both endeavors. Drawing on studio archives and featuring insightful interviews with Boetticher and those who worked with him, this retrospective looks at each of his 33 films in detail, covering his cinematic career from his days as an assistant’s assistant on the set of Hal Roach comedies to his last documentary some 45 years later.

Robert Nott is a staff writer for The Santa Fe New Mexican. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Robert Nott
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 200
Bibliographic Info: 61 photos, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2018
pISBN: 978-1-4766-6707-2
eISBN: 978-1-4766-3521-7
Imprint: McFarland

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
Biography  5
The Films  23
Television  167
Bibliography  185
Index  189