jeżeli twoje dziecko najbardziej na świecie kocha filmy, a ty najbardziej na świecie kochasz swoje dziecko, to kup mu spekulacje o kinie, pozakulisowy apendyks:
One of my Western heroes is a director named William Witney, who started doing the serials. He did Zorro’s Fighting Legion [1939], about twenty-two Roy Rogers movies; he did a whole bunch of Westerns. Great action director for Republic Pictures. And he worked all the way into the seventies. So he was like the low-budget John Ford. And they worked with the same guy: Yakima Canutt is his stunt guy and everything. So it’s like John Ford puts on a Klan uniform, rides to black subjugation. William Witney ends his fifty-year career directing the [African American] movie Darktown Strutters [1975], directing the [soul music group] The Dramatics doing the song “Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get” in his film.
ps. And Wild Bill Witney wasn’t done yet. His last film is a ridiculous satire about an all-black female motorcycle gang called Get Down and Boogie. It takes on a certain racist Kentucky Colonel who’s masterminding a diabolical plot to control the black community through his franchise of fast food rib joints (so far the only cinematic treatment of the rumor in black folklore that popular brands in the black community like Church’s Fried Chicken and Marlboro cigarettes are secretly owned by The Ku Klux Klan). And in one of the last days of a directing career that spanned constant shooting of film since the mid-thirties Bill Witney wrapped it up by shooting The Dramatics singing Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get!