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William Witney
William Nuelsen Witney (May 5, 1915 – 17 March, 2002) was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu.
He directed many Westerns during his career, and is credited with devising the modern system of filming movie fight sequences in a series of carefully choreographed shots, which he patterned after the musical sequences of American director Busby Berkeley. Prolific and pugnacious, Witney began directing while still in his 20s, and continued until 1982.
Quentin Tarantino has singled out Witney as one of his favorite directors and a "lost master", and considers four films as Witney's best work: The Golden Stallion (1949), a Roy Rogers vehicle, Stranger at My Door (1956), The Bonnie Parker Story (1958), and Paratroop Command (1959). Witney also directed Master of the World (1961) starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronson.
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Witney
Coordinates: 51°47′N 1°29′W / 51.78°N 1.49°W / 51.78; -1.49
Witney is a town on the River Windrush, 12 miles (19 km) west of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England.
The place-name "Witney" is first attested in a Saxon charter of 969 as "Wyttannige"; it appears as "Witenie" in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name means "Witta's island".
Notable buildings
The Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin was originally Norman. The north porch and north aisle were added in this style late in the 12th century, and survived a major rebuilding in about 1243. In this rebuilding the present chancel, transepts, tower and spire were added and the nave was remodelled, all in the Early English style. In the 14th century a number of side chapels and some of the present windows were added in the Decorated style. In the 15th century the south transept was extended and the present west window of the nave were added in the Perpendicular style. The tower has a peal of eight bells.
Holy Trinity parish church in Wood Green was built in 1849 in the Early English style. Both St. Mary the Virgin and Holy Trinity are now members of a single team parish.
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Witney (UK Parliament constituency)
Witney is a county constituency in Oxfordshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election, and was created for the 1983 general election.
The constituency is currently represented by the Prime Minister, David Cameron.
History
The constituency is a safe seat for the Conservative Party. Its first MP was Douglas Hurd, who served as a cabinet minister under both Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and stood down in 1997.
Hurd was succeeded by Shaun Woodward at the 1997 general election. However, Woodward defected to the Labour Party in 1999, and Witney unexpectedly had a Labour MP. Woodward chose not to stand in Witney as a Labour candidate and moved to the Labour safe seat of St Helens South instead, following the practice of Alan Howarth in 1997.
At the 2001 general election, David Cameron was elected as MP for Witney and has held the seat since then. He has been the leader of the Conservative Party since December 2005, and Prime Minister since May 2010. Cameron was re-elected to a fourth term as MP for the constituency at the 2015 general election with a majority of 25,155, the highest in his political career; on that occasion his Conservative Party won a surprise majority in the House of Commons, taking 330 seats to the opposition Labour Party's 232, and enabling them to become a majority government.
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William Nuelsen Witney was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu. He directed many Westerns during his career, and is credited with devising the modern system of filming movie fight sequences in a series of carefully choreographed shots, which he patterned after the musical sequences of American director Busby Berkeley. Prolific and pugnacious, Witney began directing while still in his 20s, and continued until 1982. This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Creative Commons image source in video
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William Witney in Lone Ranger Canyon 1994 "The Filming of the Lone Ranger in 1938"
Sol Siegel was producer for “The Lone Ranger Serial” released in 1938. The first challenge was to assemble writers and create a plot that could carry the story and the audience’s interest through four hours and fifteen chapters. Speigel already had writer Barry Shipman on payroll. Then he gathered Franklin Adreon, Jr., George Worthing Yates and Ron Davidson onto the team. Republic director, William Witney was not only one of the best action directors, but he was also one of the best story tellers. He and Canadian partner John English had just finished working on “Zorro Rides Again,” when they were assigned to co-direct “The Lone Ranger.” Already well known to the target audience of fans who had heard the radio program and then read the comics based on the character, the backstory of t...
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William Nuelsen Witney (May 15, 1915 – March 17, 2002) was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu.Quentin Tarantino called him "one of the greatest action directors in the history of the business." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Witney Created with WikipediaReaderReborn (c) WikipediaReader
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Two Hollywood Icons, Roy Rogers & William Witney. They made movie magic together in a series of tough, two-fisted post war westerns at Republic Studio. Roy was the King of the Cowboys, the #1 ranked Western Star. Many of his most popular films were directed by William Witney, who had a knack for staging and executing action sequences. Together, they made classics. How did Leonard Slye, co-founder and singer of The Sons of the Pioneers, become a leading man? How did the relationship begin with serial director Witney? What was it like being the daughter and son of motion picture icons? Find out in this exclusive interview with Roy's daughter, Cheryl Rogers-Barnett and Witney's son, Jay Dee. They both joined producer/host Rob Word at a location that their Father's loved, Lone Pine, Cal...
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University of Nebraska Film Studies professor Wheeler Winston Dixon remembers one of Hollywood's most influential action film directors.
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University of Nebraska Film Studies professor Wheeler Winston Dixon remembers one of Hollywood's most influential action film directors.
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Director William Witney talks about filming in the Alabama Hills located in Lone Pine, California during a BBC interview, in 1994, that included stunt man Loren...
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William Nuelsen Witney was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic P...
William Nuelsen Witney was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu.
He directed many Westerns during his career, and is credited with devising the modern system of filming movie fight sequences in a series of carefully choreographed shots, which he patterned after the musical sequences of American director Busby Berkeley. Prolific and pugnacious, Witney began directing while still in his 20s, and continued until 1982.
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William Nuelsen Witney was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu.
He directed many Westerns during his career, and is credited with devising the modern system of filming movie fight sequences in a series of carefully choreographed shots, which he patterned after the musical sequences of American director Busby Berkeley. Prolific and pugnacious, Witney began directing while still in his 20s, and continued until 1982.
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William Witney in Lone Ranger Canyon 1994 "The Filming of the Lone Ranger in 1938"
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Sol Siegel was producer for “The Lone Ranger Serial” released in 1938. The first challenge was to assemble writers and create a plot that could carry the story ...
Sol Siegel was producer for “The Lone Ranger Serial” released in 1938. The first challenge was to assemble writers and create a plot that could carry the story and the audience’s interest through four hours and fifteen chapters. Speigel already had writer Barry Shipman on payroll. Then he gathered Franklin Adreon, Jr., George Worthing Yates and Ron Davidson onto the team.
Republic director, William Witney was not only one of the best action directors, but he was also one of the best story tellers. He and Canadian partner John English had just finished working on “Zorro Rides Again,” when they were assigned to co-direct “The Lone Ranger.”
Already well known to the target audience of fans who had heard the radio program and then read the comics based on the character, the backstory of the Lone Ranger was very familiar. However, Republic, decided to rewrite this story. This rewrite made for a great serial plot over the four hours, but loyal fans were horrified with the changes Hollywood brought to the plot.
Whitney relates the filming of The Lone Ranger
To begin with, Whitney and English spent two weeks looking for locations and ended up in Lone Pine. Witney was clearly taken with the special qualities of the area. “Covered with snow and the brown, odd-shaped rocks of the Alabama Hills jutting out like lone sentinels, it was beautiful. The ride from Lone Pine to the location was only about ten minutes. For a commercial picture, it was perfect—no lost time coming to work or getting a tired crew back to the hotel without a long ride.”
A posse of six members of the Texas Ranger Division pursuing a band of outlaws led by Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish is ambushed in a canyon named Bryant's Gap. (Lone Ranger Canyon). Tonto played this time by Chief Thundercloud (real name Victor Daniels), rides into the canyon and discovers one ranger is barely alive. Nursing the man back to health, Tonto recognizes the lone survivor as the man who saved his life when they both were children.
Among the Rangers killed was the survivor's older brother, Daniel Reid, who was a captain in the Texas Rangers and the leader of the ambushed group. To conceal his identity and honor his fallen brother, Reid fashions a black domino mask, from the material of his brother's vest. To aid in the deception, Tonto digs a sixth grave and places at its head a cross bearing Reid's name so that Cavendish and his gang would believe that all of the Rangers had been killed. Thus, The Lone Ranger is born.
Bill Witney notes – a test shooting had been scheduled for the actors chosen to be the Texas Rangers to see how they looked on the screen and how they stacked up together.” Hal Taliaferro had been chosen and Witney knew him well, having worked with him already as star of two films Bill had directed. He “was a good horseman and actor, and never a problem.”
Herman Brix, who later used the name Bruce Bennett, was also selected. He had been an Olympic champion in the Nazi Germany Olympics in the 1930s. Witney commented, “We would be working together many more times, including television. He was a gentleman and a great athlete. Lee Powell, a newcomer, had been selected to play the lead. He was a good actor and easy to work with.” Sadly, his career would be cut short as he died in World War II, which was on the horizon as filming commenced.
The fourth actor chosen was Lane Chandler. “Lane Chandler had played the lead in a few westerns. He was a very quiet man, a good horseman. George Letz, the fifth actor chosen, was the final Texan cast. He had been brought in by his brother who was already working as an extra. He was big and good-looking, a nice kid. He later changed his name to George Montgomery, married Dinah Shore and became a star.”
Combining a camera car and horses on the Alabama Hills insert road was careful work. This is why the actors had to be good horsemen and the horses well trained, film-friendly animals.
The camera car they used in Lone Pine was owned by Red O’Hare and was built from an old simplex truck, cut down. The design had the vehicle low in the back, medium in the middle and high over the cab. Witney described it as a “big lumbering machine, but steady, with no vibration even over rough roads.”
Interview shot by Don Kelsen, interview by Leslie Kelsen
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Sol Siegel was producer for “The Lone Ranger Serial” released in 1938. The first challenge was to assemble writers and create a plot that could carry the story and the audience’s interest through four hours and fifteen chapters. Speigel already had writer Barry Shipman on payroll. Then he gathered Franklin Adreon, Jr., George Worthing Yates and Ron Davidson onto the team.
Republic director, William Witney was not only one of the best action directors, but he was also one of the best story tellers. He and Canadian partner John English had just finished working on “Zorro Rides Again,” when they were assigned to co-direct “The Lone Ranger.”
Already well known to the target audience of fans who had heard the radio program and then read the comics based on the character, the backstory of the Lone Ranger was very familiar. However, Republic, decided to rewrite this story. This rewrite made for a great serial plot over the four hours, but loyal fans were horrified with the changes Hollywood brought to the plot.
Whitney relates the filming of The Lone Ranger
To begin with, Whitney and English spent two weeks looking for locations and ended up in Lone Pine. Witney was clearly taken with the special qualities of the area. “Covered with snow and the brown, odd-shaped rocks of the Alabama Hills jutting out like lone sentinels, it was beautiful. The ride from Lone Pine to the location was only about ten minutes. For a commercial picture, it was perfect—no lost time coming to work or getting a tired crew back to the hotel without a long ride.”
A posse of six members of the Texas Ranger Division pursuing a band of outlaws led by Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish is ambushed in a canyon named Bryant's Gap. (Lone Ranger Canyon). Tonto played this time by Chief Thundercloud (real name Victor Daniels), rides into the canyon and discovers one ranger is barely alive. Nursing the man back to health, Tonto recognizes the lone survivor as the man who saved his life when they both were children.
Among the Rangers killed was the survivor's older brother, Daniel Reid, who was a captain in the Texas Rangers and the leader of the ambushed group. To conceal his identity and honor his fallen brother, Reid fashions a black domino mask, from the material of his brother's vest. To aid in the deception, Tonto digs a sixth grave and places at its head a cross bearing Reid's name so that Cavendish and his gang would believe that all of the Rangers had been killed. Thus, The Lone Ranger is born.
Bill Witney notes – a test shooting had been scheduled for the actors chosen to be the Texas Rangers to see how they looked on the screen and how they stacked up together.” Hal Taliaferro had been chosen and Witney knew him well, having worked with him already as star of two films Bill had directed. He “was a good horseman and actor, and never a problem.”
Herman Brix, who later used the name Bruce Bennett, was also selected. He had been an Olympic champion in the Nazi Germany Olympics in the 1930s. Witney commented, “We would be working together many more times, including television. He was a gentleman and a great athlete. Lee Powell, a newcomer, had been selected to play the lead. He was a good actor and easy to work with.” Sadly, his career would be cut short as he died in World War II, which was on the horizon as filming commenced.
The fourth actor chosen was Lane Chandler. “Lane Chandler had played the lead in a few westerns. He was a very quiet man, a good horseman. George Letz, the fifth actor chosen, was the final Texan cast. He had been brought in by his brother who was already working as an extra. He was big and good-looking, a nice kid. He later changed his name to George Montgomery, married Dinah Shore and became a star.”
Combining a camera car and horses on the Alabama Hills insert road was careful work. This is why the actors had to be good horsemen and the horses well trained, film-friendly animals.
The camera car they used in Lone Pine was owned by Red O’Hare and was built from an old simplex truck, cut down. The design had the vehicle low in the back, medium in the middle and high over the cab. Witney described it as a “big lumbering machine, but steady, with no vibration even over rough roads.”
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🎞️ Dive into the captivating world of William Witney, the legendary motion picture director, through "Remembering William Witney." Immerse yourself into the golden age of Hollywood with interviews, personal stories and clips from film festivals that trace Witney's illustrious career from the serial days to TV and motion pictures. Gain insights into the making of cinematic history and the artistry that defined an era. Visit www.vimeo.com/ondemand/rememberingwilliamwitney Full viewing of episodes start Friday Feb 16th2024
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William Nuelsen Witney (May 15, 1915 – March 17, 2002) was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed ...
William Nuelsen Witney (May 15, 1915 – March 17, 2002) was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu.Quentin Tarantino called him "one of the greatest action directors in the history of the business."
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William Nuelsen Witney (May 15, 1915 – March 17, 2002) was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu.Quentin Tarantino called him "one of the greatest action directors in the history of the business."
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Two Hollywood Icons, Roy Rogers & William Witney. They made movie magic together in a series of tough, two-fisted post war westerns at Republic Studio. Roy was ...
Two Hollywood Icons, Roy Rogers & William Witney. They made movie magic together in a series of tough, two-fisted post war westerns at Republic Studio. Roy was the King of the Cowboys, the #1 ranked Western Star. Many of his most popular films were directed by William Witney, who had a knack for staging and executing action sequences. Together, they made classics. How did Leonard Slye, co-founder and singer of The Sons of the Pioneers, become a leading man? How did the relationship begin with serial director Witney? What was it like being the daughter and son of motion picture icons?
Find out in this exclusive interview with Roy's daughter, Cheryl Rogers-Barnett and Witney's son, Jay Dee. They both joined producer/host Rob Word at a location that their Father's loved, Lone Pine, California, during the 31st annual Lone Pine Film Festival, October 2021.
You're in for a double treat on today's tribute to Father's on A WORD ON WESTERNS. First the interviews and then an episode from FRONTIER DOCTOR directed by William Witney starring Rex Allen and Gloria Winters (SKY KING).
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Two Hollywood Icons, Roy Rogers & William Witney. They made movie magic together in a series of tough, two-fisted post war westerns at Republic Studio. Roy was the King of the Cowboys, the #1 ranked Western Star. Many of his most popular films were directed by William Witney, who had a knack for staging and executing action sequences. Together, they made classics. How did Leonard Slye, co-founder and singer of The Sons of the Pioneers, become a leading man? How did the relationship begin with serial director Witney? What was it like being the daughter and son of motion picture icons?
Find out in this exclusive interview with Roy's daughter, Cheryl Rogers-Barnett and Witney's son, Jay Dee. They both joined producer/host Rob Word at a location that their Father's loved, Lone Pine, California, during the 31st annual Lone Pine Film Festival, October 2021.
You're in for a double treat on today's tribute to Father's on A WORD ON WESTERNS. First the interviews and then an episode from FRONTIER DOCTOR directed by William Witney starring Rex Allen and Gloria Winters (SKY KING).
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William Nuelsen Witney was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu.
He directed many Westerns during his career, and is credited with devising the modern system of filming movie fight sequences in a series of carefully choreographed shots, which he patterned after the musical sequences of American director Busby Berkeley. Prolific and pugnacious, Witney began directing while still in his 20s, and continued until 1982.
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Sol Siegel was producer for “The Lone Ranger Serial” released in 1938. The first challenge was to assemble writers and create a plot that could carry the story and the audience’s interest through four hours and fifteen chapters. Speigel already had writer Barry Shipman on payroll. Then he gathered Franklin Adreon, Jr., George Worthing Yates and Ron Davidson onto the team.
Republic director, William Witney was not only one of the best action directors, but he was also one of the best story tellers. He and Canadian partner John English had just finished working on “Zorro Rides Again,” when they were assigned to co-direct “The Lone Ranger.”
Already well known to the target audience of fans who had heard the radio program and then read the comics based on the character, the backstory of the Lone Ranger was very familiar. However, Republic, decided to rewrite this story. This rewrite made for a great serial plot over the four hours, but loyal fans were horrified with the changes Hollywood brought to the plot.
Whitney relates the filming of The Lone Ranger
To begin with, Whitney and English spent two weeks looking for locations and ended up in Lone Pine. Witney was clearly taken with the special qualities of the area. “Covered with snow and the brown, odd-shaped rocks of the Alabama Hills jutting out like lone sentinels, it was beautiful. The ride from Lone Pine to the location was only about ten minutes. For a commercial picture, it was perfect—no lost time coming to work or getting a tired crew back to the hotel without a long ride.”
A posse of six members of the Texas Ranger Division pursuing a band of outlaws led by Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish is ambushed in a canyon named Bryant's Gap. (Lone Ranger Canyon). Tonto played this time by Chief Thundercloud (real name Victor Daniels), rides into the canyon and discovers one ranger is barely alive. Nursing the man back to health, Tonto recognizes the lone survivor as the man who saved his life when they both were children.
Among the Rangers killed was the survivor's older brother, Daniel Reid, who was a captain in the Texas Rangers and the leader of the ambushed group. To conceal his identity and honor his fallen brother, Reid fashions a black domino mask, from the material of his brother's vest. To aid in the deception, Tonto digs a sixth grave and places at its head a cross bearing Reid's name so that Cavendish and his gang would believe that all of the Rangers had been killed. Thus, The Lone Ranger is born.
Bill Witney notes – a test shooting had been scheduled for the actors chosen to be the Texas Rangers to see how they looked on the screen and how they stacked up together.” Hal Taliaferro had been chosen and Witney knew him well, having worked with him already as star of two films Bill had directed. He “was a good horseman and actor, and never a problem.”
Herman Brix, who later used the name Bruce Bennett, was also selected. He had been an Olympic champion in the Nazi Germany Olympics in the 1930s. Witney commented, “We would be working together many more times, including television. He was a gentleman and a great athlete. Lee Powell, a newcomer, had been selected to play the lead. He was a good actor and easy to work with.” Sadly, his career would be cut short as he died in World War II, which was on the horizon as filming commenced.
The fourth actor chosen was Lane Chandler. “Lane Chandler had played the lead in a few westerns. He was a very quiet man, a good horseman. George Letz, the fifth actor chosen, was the final Texan cast. He had been brought in by his brother who was already working as an extra. He was big and good-looking, a nice kid. He later changed his name to George Montgomery, married Dinah Shore and became a star.”
Combining a camera car and horses on the Alabama Hills insert road was careful work. This is why the actors had to be good horsemen and the horses well trained, film-friendly animals.
The camera car they used in Lone Pine was owned by Red O’Hare and was built from an old simplex truck, cut down. The design had the vehicle low in the back, medium in the middle and high over the cab. Witney described it as a “big lumbering machine, but steady, with no vibration even over rough roads.”
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William Nuelsen Witney (May 15, 1915 – March 17, 2002) was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu.Quentin Tarantino called him "one of the greatest action directors in the history of the business."
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Roy Rogers & William Witney! Cheryl Rogers & Jay Dee Witney interviewed + FREE Rex Allen TV show
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Two Hollywood Icons, Roy Rogers & William Witney. They made movie magic together in a series of tough, two-fisted post war westerns at Republic Studio. Roy was the King of the Cowboys, the #1 ranked Western Star. Many of his most popular films were directed by William Witney, who had a knack for staging and executing action sequences. Together, they made classics. How did Leonard Slye, co-founder and singer of The Sons of the Pioneers, become a leading man? How did the relationship begin with serial director Witney? What was it like being the daughter and son of motion picture icons?
Find out in this exclusive interview with Roy's daughter, Cheryl Rogers-Barnett and Witney's son, Jay Dee. They both joined producer/host Rob Word at a location that their Father's loved, Lone Pine, California, during the 31st annual Lone Pine Film Festival, October 2021.
You're in for a double treat on today's tribute to Father's on A WORD ON WESTERNS. First the interviews and then an episode from FRONTIER DOCTOR directed by William Witney starring Rex Allen and Gloria Winters (SKY KING).
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William Witney
William Nuelsen Witney (May 5, 1915 – 17 March, 2002) was an American film and television director. He is best remembered for the movie serials he co-directed with John English for Republic Pictures such as Daredevils of the Red Circle, Zorro's Fighting Legion and Drums of Fu Manchu.
He directed many Westerns during his career, and is credited with devising the modern system of filming movie fight sequences in a series of carefully choreographed shots, which he patterned after the musical sequences of American director Busby Berkeley. Prolific and pugnacious, Witney began directing while still in his 20s, and continued until 1982.
Quentin Tarantino has singled out Witney as one of his favorite directors and a "lost master", and considers four films as Witney's best work: The Golden Stallion (1949), a Roy Rogers vehicle, Stranger at My Door (1956), The Bonnie Parker Story (1958), and Paratroop Command (1959). Witney also directed Master of the World (1961) starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronson.
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