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The Warriors screens at Metrograph from October 14. Since his first film as a writer-director, 1975’s Hard Times, Walter Hill has famously and repeatedly professed to only make movies that, at their core, are Westerns. Sometimes that’s explicitly the case, as in his just-released Dead for a Dollar, shot in 25 days, with New Mexico standing ...
- Vadim Rizov
Top credentials, with Walter Hill adapting a Jim Thompson story for Sam Peckinpah, and filmed on atmospheric Texas locations. Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) is paroled from prison with a little help from corrupt Beynon (Ben Johnson), on condition that he repays the favour by pulling a bank job.
Hill was going to make The Last Gun with Larry Gordon [26] but when the financing on the project failed to materialize, Gordon showed Hill a copy of the novel The Warriors by Sol Yurick. They took it to Paramount Pictures because they were interested in youth films at the time and succeeded in getting the project financed.
- Johnny Handsome (1989) A weirdly spiritual successor to what Hill was trying to do in “The Assignment”, but is done much better here. Not that what we get is some amazing movie, although it’s funny to think of Hill trying to make a crime movie with Rocky Dennis.
- Red Heat (1988) Hill would make a buddy cop movie with Arnold. What could go wrong? It would be easy to say the presence of Jim Belushi, but that’s not fair.
- Another 48 Hours (1990) This movie gets way more crap than it really deserves, even though it isn’t an objectively good movie. It’s way too derivative of the original movie and falls into that sequel trap of just being a beat for beat remake with some slight changes.
- The Assignment (2017) The movie that was designed to keep the thinkpiece industry afloat. My goodness is the premise of this so ridiculous and sleazy that it couldn’t help but excite anyone willing to go for the ride.
Mar 15, 2023 · Walter Hill: stories from 50 years of Hollywood action filmmaking. From his beginnings running safety and security on the Bullitt car chase, the legendary writer and director looks back over a career in the driving seat of American genre cinema. 15 March 2023.
When The Duke saw Hard Times (1975), he wanted Hill to helm his last film, The Shootist (1976). But Hill refused because he didn't want to see his hero dying in a movie. His favourites directors are John Ford, Howard Hawks, John Huston, Raoul Walsh, Sam Peckinpah, and Sergio Leone.
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Walter Hill had worked with Sam Peckinpah in the early 1970s on The Getaway and said he "tipped my hat to Sam a couple of times" in the film. [16] Michael Ironside later recalled that the film was greatly cut in post-production:
