A series of six Programmes in which ohnBaxterexamines the changes in cinema of the past 25 years.
2: A Land Fit for Heroes The period since 1960 has marked a gradual decline in the popularity of the cinema's most enduring genre - the Western. Its simple versions of morality, likened by many in Hollywood to Greek tragedy, have been largely replaced by the more complex realities of the action and detective films. JOHN BAXTER considers this fundamental shift in the cinema's philosophy with the help of CLAIR
HUFFAKER, JOHN STURGES , BURT KENNEDY , ELLIOT SILVERSTEIN ,
SYDNEY POLLACK. ARTHUR PENN,
JOHN FRANKENIIEIMER and JOHN BOORMAN.
Interviews by TOM BROOKE in New York and CARROLL MOORE in Los Angeles Producer CARROLL MOORE