I Went That-a-Way

by Wheeler Winston Dixon, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Audrey Brown Fraser

Harry Fraser was a tried and true professional director who could be counted upon to bring a picture in on time and on budget. In fifty years in film and theatre, he worked with many important figures in motion picture history, particularly in westerns: Wild Bill Cody, Tom Tyler, Bob Steele, Gene Autry, Rex Bell, Tom Mix, Harry Carey, Buster Crabbe, Lash La Rue, William S. Hart, John Wayne, Yakima Canutt, and many others.

Genres: Film

Hardcover

First published November 1, 1990

About the author

Wheeler Winston Dixon is an American filmmaker, scholar and author, and an expert on film history, theory and criticism.

His scholarship has particular emphasis on François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, American experimental cinema and horror films. He has written extensively on numerous aspects of film, including his books A Short History of Film and A History of Horror. From 1999 through the end of 2014, he was co-editor of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is regarded as a top reviewer of films. In addition, he is notable as an experimental American filmmaker with films made over several decades, and the Museum of Modern Art exhibited his works in 2003. He has taught at a number of schools of higher learning.

Reviews

[Justin Decloux · Rating 4 out of 5]

An amusing collection of anecdotes of anonymous director of Poverty Row westerns. The 30-page introduction that gives a brief history on every single Poverty Row Western director is essential reading for the curious and the connoisseur.