Hearts of the West
Hearts of the West, released in Europe as Hollywood Cowboy, is a 1975 American comedy film directed by Howard Zieff, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Blythe Danner, and Alan Arkin. A remake of 1932’s Make Me a Star, its story revolves around a wannabe Western writer who finds himself cast as a leading man in several 1930s Hollywood B-movie Westerns.
Plot
In 1933, Lewis Tater, an aspiring novelist who harbors dreams of becoming the next Zane Grey, decides to leave his family home in Iowa to go to the University of Titan in Nevada so he can soak up the western atmosphere. He arrives to find that there is no university, only a mail order correspondence course scam run by two crooks out of the local hotel. He tries to spend the night at the hotel, but is attacked by one of the men in an attempted robbery. He escapes his attacker, grabs his suitcase, and steals their car to get away, but after a while it runs out of gas. He looks in the car trunk, and finds a toolbox containing a revolver and ammunition. Afraid the two crooks are still in pursuit of him, he takes the tool box and his suitcase and walks off into the desert.
Awards
More details
author | Rob Thompson |
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award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
contentLocation | Los Angeles |
director | Howard Zieff |
editor | Edward Warschilka |
genre | comedy western |
keywords | attack attempted robbery b western family home grind mail order morning script girl speak wash west zane grey |
musicBy | Ken Lauber |
producer | Tony Bill |
productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
publisher | Cinema International Corporation United Artists |
theme | filmmaking |