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# Cowboys, Creatures, and Classics: The Story of Republic Pictures

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Cowboys, Creatures, and Classics: The Story of Republic Pictures

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## Customer Reviews

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    Terribly Inaccurate Book
  

*by B***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2019*

People that don’t know what they’re writing about should not be authoring books. This is the case with COWBOYS, CREATURES AND CLASSICS. Portending to be a history of Republic Pictures there is nothing new in its 250 pages—and much that is wrong. Misspellings: Lew Landors (Landers), Phyllis Coats (Coates), Linda Sterling (Stirling), Claire Trever (Trevor), etc. One page states “at a cost of $119,343 ‘Bat Men of Africa’ (should be ‘Darkest Africa’) was the most expensive Republic serial of 1936.” First of all it was in 1935 and it was Republic’s only serial that year, so naturally…And if you figure 1936, “Dick Tracy” cost $127,640. One page states “Buck Jones was a star at Republic.” Hmmmm—he appeared in only one Republic picture, “Wagons Westward” in 1940 and he was not the star. A photo of Lois Hall is identified as Frances Gifford and a photo of Lorna Gray with Ian Keith is identified as Robert Livingston in “Valley of the Zombies”. “Daredevils of the Red Circle” was shot on a budget of $175 (??) then on page 6 the ‘authors’ state “Herbert Yates held producers to a modest budget of 18 thousand to 37 thousand dollars to make serial pictures.” What??? Yet another section has noted actor Lew Ayres directing something called “The Disinherited” for Republic in 1935. At this point, I totally gave up. The text is littered in factual mistakes, the structure is redundant, photos are mislabeled, on and on.  Incredibly disappointing.Boyd MagersWESTERN CLIPPINGS

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    Very disappointing!
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2019*

I’m surprised at the amount of five star ratings for this book.  In my opinion, most of the content is readily available on web sites.  I found  no in-depth information that I did not already know, including the short bio’s of Republic stars, cliffhangers and movies.  The listing of Republic films takes up about a third of the book.  As a result, I found this book very disappointing.

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    Readable Studio Story
  

*by P***K on Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2019*

This book is a very sketchy overview of the history of Republic Pictures.  It contains plenty of inf minutesormation on Republic reign over the B picture era but does not spend enough time on  Republic's last decade omitting any coverage of films like "The Last Command" ( incorrectly referred to "The Last Stand" ).  This film was a well budgeted Alamo epic directed by Frank Lloyd (Mutiny on the Bounty) with a b+ cast.  It was likely aimed as a pot shot at John Wayne who quit the studio after a nearly 2 decade stint when studio head Herbert Yates welched on a promise to finance an Alamo film for Wayne to star in and direct.While the book reads very well,  there are some inaccuracies.  ( "The Quiet Man" has a runtime of 129 minutes, not 179.)  The Book would have benefitted form some color stills, especially from "The Quiet Man",  "Johnny Guitar",  and others.

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