Zane Grey
Prolific American writer and pioneer of the Western as a new literary genre, Zane Grey produced over sixty books, and almost as many have been published posthumously. In his works Grey presented the West as a moral battleground, in which his characters are destroyed because of their inability to change or be redeemed through a final confrontation with their past. Grey's semi-outlaw heroes were his most interesting creation, among them Lassiter in 'Riders of the Purple Sage', a gunman who has lost the girl he loved to a Mormon preacher. Grey's stories, set against the beautiful but harsh landscape of the West, have fascinated readers all over the world. Below is Alice's collection of his sagebrush adaptations.
"I do not care for automobiles. They're dangerous and menacing. How tragic life is!" - Zane Grey
Fighting Caravans (1931)
5.9/10
Director: Otto Brower
Starring: Gary Cooper
Based on a classic Western novel by Zane Grey, this early starring role for Gary Cooper has Coop as a wagon scout charged with delivering his people t... Read more
Thunder Mountain / Wild Horse Mesa (1947)
Starring: Tim Holt
"Thunder Mountain" is a first-rate adaptation of Zane Grey's story and stars Tim Holt as a college grad who tries to stop a family feud that's been fa... Read more
Under The Tonto Rim / Sunset Pass (1947)
Starring: Tim Holt, James Warren
"Under the Tonto Rim" - After his stage is robbed, stagecoach operator Tim Holt goes undercover to catch the culprits. Two-fisted Western adventure, b... Read more
Wanderer of the Wasteland / Code of the West (1947)
Starring: James Warren, Raymond Burr
Two Zane Grey adaptations. 'Wanderer of the Wastland' - James Warren is a young man driven to find the killer of his father. When Warren finally find... Read more
West of the Pecos / Nevada (1945)
Director: Edward Killy
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Hale, Richard Martin, Thurston Hall
A Zane Grey double feature. 'West of the Pecos' (1945, 66 minutes) - Robert Mitchum stars in this well-plotted, exciting western. Thurston Hall and hi... Read more
Western Union (1941)
6.8/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine, Sli...
Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott) wants to put his criminal past behind him and gets his chance when he is hired to protect workers constructing telegraph p... Read more