Abstract

"They Died with Their Boots on" and "The Last Refuge", "Red Hot" and "The World in Their Hands" are some of the most popular films of Raoul Walsh (1887-1980), one of the essential filmmakers of classic American cinema. However, Walsh was also the director of "My Girl and Me" and "Hollywood Loves", "The Man I Love" and "The Revolt of Mamie Stover", "Pursued" and "The Relentless", perhaps not as appreciated or known, but equally essential not only to understand his work as it should be, but also to understand the cinema of his time, which spans from the dawn of silent films to the first beginnings of modernity. That is why this book contains analyses of all of them and many more, in what is a dizzying and zigzagging journey through the career of an artist whose favourite subject was cinema itself: the movements and passions of the body, and of the spirit, as well as the way in which images are capable of reflecting them.