Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I GENRE
- PART II HISTORY
- PART III INTERVIEWS
- 10 “Let the Sleepers Sleep and the Haters Hate”: An Interview with Dale “Rage” Resteghini
- 11 Margin Call: An Interview with J. C. Chandor
- 12 “All My Films Are Personal”: An Interview with Pat Jackson
- 13 Working Within the System: An Interview with Gerry O'Hara
- 14 Andrew V. McLaglen: Last of the Hollywood Professionals
- 15 Pop Star, Director, Actor: An Interview with Michael Sarne
- Works Cited and Consulted
- About the Author
- Index
14 - Andrew V. McLaglen: Last of the Hollywood Professionals
from PART III - INTERVIEWS
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I GENRE
- PART II HISTORY
- PART III INTERVIEWS
- 10 “Let the Sleepers Sleep and the Haters Hate”: An Interview with Dale “Rage” Resteghini
- 11 Margin Call: An Interview with J. C. Chandor
- 12 “All My Films Are Personal”: An Interview with Pat Jackson
- 13 Working Within the System: An Interview with Gerry O'Hara
- 14 Andrew V. McLaglen: Last of the Hollywood Professionals
- 15 Pop Star, Director, Actor: An Interview with Michael Sarne
- Works Cited and Consulted
- About the Author
- Index
Summary
Andrew V McLaglen (he is quite insistent on retaining the “V” in his name, as part of his authorial signature) is without a doubt one of the last of the classical Hollywood filmmakers who worked during the Golden Age of the studio system. Coming of age when his father — the gifted actor Victor McLaglen — won an Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in John Ford's The Informer (1935; Ford himself also won as Best Director that year, as did Max Steiner for his music score and Dudley Nichols for the screenplay), young Andrew worked and lived with the cream of Hollywood's most original and idiosyncratic artists. In addition to John Ford, he knew and/or worked with John “Duke” Wayne, William Wellman, Budd Boetticher and Cary Grant and later carved out a career for himself as a director in the Western genre that few can equal. Even now, he is still going strong, directing stage productions of such classics as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and keeping an interested eye on the business.
In all his work, Andrew V. McLaglen was a genuine artist, but one who also kept an eye on the bottom line and kept his projects moving. And, as you will see, although he is best known for his work as a director of Westerns, he feels that he did some of his best work in other genres.
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- Cinema at the Margins , pp. 179 - 194Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2013