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The Great American Picture Show: Hollywood Cowboy

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

continues a major season of recent American movies, tonight starring Jeff Bridges, Blythe Danner
America, the early 1930s. Lewis Tater is an aspiring writer with one essential qualification: a vivid imagination. Travelling west to seek fame and fortune he encounters a team of Western movie-makers and quickly becomes intrigued with their chaotic life-style. The handsome hero is soon co-opted as an ' 'extra' and his adventures as a Hollywood 'cowboy' begin. This engaging, lighthearted comedy is a celebration of the Western myth and of the movie capital of yesteryear.
Screenplay by ROB THOMPSON Produced by TONY BILL
Directed by HOWARD ZIEFF. Films: page 7 (First showing on British television)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lewis Tater
Unknown:
Rob Thompson
Produced By:
Tony Bill
Directed By:
Howard Zieff.
Lewis Tater:
Jeff Bridges
Miss Trout:
Blythe Danner
Howard Pike:
Andy Griffith
A J NietZ:
Donald Pleasence
Kessler:
Alan Arkin
StOUt crook:
Richard B Shull
PolO:
Herbert Edelman
Earl:
Alex Rocco
Pa Tater:
Frank Cady
Lean crook:
Anthony James
Lester:
Burton Gilliam
Source: Radio Times

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