Jeb Rosebrook, who wrote the screenplay for the Steve McQueen-Sam Peckinpah rodeo classic Junior Bonner, died Friday in Scottsdale, Arizona, his family announced. He was 83.
Rosebrook also worked with his mentor, The Waltons creator Earl Hamner Jr., on four episodes on the iconic CBS series, including the two-hour 1974 installment "The Conflict," and was a co-writer on the 1979 Disney sci-fi adventure The Black Hole.
He received an Emmy nomination for his work on 1975's I Will Fight No More Forever, a re-enactment of the story of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians that starred Ned ...
Rosebrook also worked with his mentor, The Waltons creator Earl Hamner Jr., on four episodes on the iconic CBS series, including the two-hour 1974 installment "The Conflict," and was a co-writer on the 1979 Disney sci-fi adventure The Black Hole.
He received an Emmy nomination for his work on 1975's I Will Fight No More Forever, a re-enactment of the story of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians that starred Ned ...
Jeb Rosebrook, who wrote the screenplay for the Steve McQueen-Sam Peckinpah rodeo classic Junior Bonner, died Friday in Scottsdale, Arizona, his family announced. He was 83.
Rosebrook also worked with his mentor, The Waltons creator Earl Hamner Jr., on four episodes on the iconic CBS series, including the two-hour 1974 installment "The Conflict," and was a co-writer on the 1979 Disney sci-fi adventure The Black Hole.
He received an Emmy nomination for his work on 1975's I Will Fight No More Forever, a re-enactment of the story of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians that starred Ned ...
Rosebrook also worked with his mentor, The Waltons creator Earl Hamner Jr., on four episodes on the iconic CBS series, including the two-hour 1974 installment "The Conflict," and was a co-writer on the 1979 Disney sci-fi adventure The Black Hole.
He received an Emmy nomination for his work on 1975's I Will Fight No More Forever, a re-enactment of the story of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians that starred Ned ...
Sam Peckinpah was a fine director of actors when the material was right, and his first collaboration with Steve McQueen is an shaded character study about a rodeo family dealing with changing times. Joe Don Baker and Ben Johnson shine, but the movie belongs to Ida Lupino and Robert Preston.
Junior Bonner
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1972 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 100 min. / Special Edition / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Joe Don Baker, Ben Johnson, Mary Murphy, Dub Taylor, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Bill McKinney.
Cinematography: Lucien Ballard
Film Editors: Frank Santillo, Robert L. Wolfe
Second Unit Director: Frank Kowalski
Bud Hurlbud: Special Effects
Original Music: Jerry Fielding
Written by Jeb Rosebrook
Produced by Joe Wizan
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
I suppose there were plenty of successful rodeo-themed westerns back in the day, perhaps the kind interrupted by a cowboy song every ten minutes or so.
Junior Bonner
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1972 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 100 min. / Special Edition / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Joe Don Baker, Ben Johnson, Mary Murphy, Dub Taylor, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Bill McKinney.
Cinematography: Lucien Ballard
Film Editors: Frank Santillo, Robert L. Wolfe
Second Unit Director: Frank Kowalski
Bud Hurlbud: Special Effects
Original Music: Jerry Fielding
Written by Jeb Rosebrook
Produced by Joe Wizan
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
I suppose there were plenty of successful rodeo-themed westerns back in the day, perhaps the kind interrupted by a cowboy song every ten minutes or so.
- 10/17/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Remakes are an easy barometer of how affectionately a film is held in the general consciousness of the film-viewing public, which is unfortunately why so many original classics have been butchered in the hands of unworthy modern directors keen to make a name for themselves. Thankfully, the Coen Brothers don’t need the boost of association with one of those remakes, so their agenda remains faithfully set on making a new take on the original story, while retaining a certain essence of the first adaptation starring the legendary John Wayne, which is now available on blu-ray. (and after you’ve read the review, remember we have five copies to give away!!)
While the film may immediately conjure up images of the Wild West, True Grit isn’t the prototypical Western it may initially appear to be. There may be hats and horses, and some of the characters might appear to...
While the film may immediately conjure up images of the Wild West, True Grit isn’t the prototypical Western it may initially appear to be. There may be hats and horses, and some of the characters might appear to...
- 2/8/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
While True Grit may have garnered the great John Wayne the only Oscar of his long and distinguished career, that recognition, in truth, says far more about the nature of Wayne's performance than the strength of it. As western historian, Dr. Stuart Rosenbrook, duly notes in a fleeting brief featurette amongst the extras, this was exactly the performance that America "needed." Released at the tail end of the troublingly turbulent sixties, in the wake of the Kennedy assassination and the disillusionment of the Vietnam War, this loose adaptation of Charles Portis' novel offered a resoundingly reassuring fable of traditional morality.
A simple tale of a young firecracker ranch widow, Mattie (Kim Darby) tracking down the old gunslinger - having heard tales of his legendary 'True Grit' - and refusing to go away until he and Texas Ranger La Bouef (Glenn Campbell) help her track down the man who killed her father.
A simple tale of a young firecracker ranch widow, Mattie (Kim Darby) tracking down the old gunslinger - having heard tales of his legendary 'True Grit' - and refusing to go away until he and Texas Ranger La Bouef (Glenn Campbell) help her track down the man who killed her father.
- 12/23/2010
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
Chicago – There are few Westerns more iconic than the original “True Grit.” Ask a hundred people to name the first Western that comes to mind and I firmly believe that “True Grit” will be one of the most-mentioned films. It is beloved enough that Joel and Ethan Coen have remade it into an already award-winning drama that will be released this week with Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Hailee Steinfeld. Catch up with the original on Blu-ray before you see the new film.
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
Based on the 1968 novel by Charles Portis, the 1969 Henry Hathaway film earned John Wayne his only Oscar (coming twenty years after his only other acting nomination for “Sands of Iwo Jima”…although to this critic his best work will always be in “The Searchers”) as Rooster Cogburn, a legendary deputy marshal hired by Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) to find the man who killed...
Blu-Ray Rating: 3.5/5.0
Based on the 1968 novel by Charles Portis, the 1969 Henry Hathaway film earned John Wayne his only Oscar (coming twenty years after his only other acting nomination for “Sands of Iwo Jima”…although to this critic his best work will always be in “The Searchers”) as Rooster Cogburn, a legendary deputy marshal hired by Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) to find the man who killed...
- 12/20/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Film:
It’s the one that The Duke won the Oscar for. After slumming it in a few films like The Conqueror where the great American cowboy played Genghis Khan of all people, and after losing nearly two lungs, The Duke’s American icon status was returned in 1969′s True Grit, a film that played up to his persona of the decades, yet offered him a chance to twist it, with his drunken Rooster Cogburn, one of his best characters. “If I’d have known that, I would have put that patch on thirty-five years earlier,” joked John Wayne during his Oscar speech, a clever spin on a long deserved award, but also in tune with the character of Rooster Cogburn.
The great thing about True Grit, is the to whom the title describes. We obviously associate it Wayne’s Cogburn. The character is vintage Wayne: rough, tough, gun-toting,...
It’s the one that The Duke won the Oscar for. After slumming it in a few films like The Conqueror where the great American cowboy played Genghis Khan of all people, and after losing nearly two lungs, The Duke’s American icon status was returned in 1969′s True Grit, a film that played up to his persona of the decades, yet offered him a chance to twist it, with his drunken Rooster Cogburn, one of his best characters. “If I’d have known that, I would have put that patch on thirty-five years earlier,” joked John Wayne during his Oscar speech, a clever spin on a long deserved award, but also in tune with the character of Rooster Cogburn.
The great thing about True Grit, is the to whom the title describes. We obviously associate it Wayne’s Cogburn. The character is vintage Wayne: rough, tough, gun-toting,...
- 12/20/2010
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
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