Category Archives: Willeford

Sinister Cinema: Patrick Warburton

Posted on December 15, 2022 by Don

Onscreen in The Woman Chaser, Patrick Warburton plays one of the most unlikable characters you’ll ever meet — before and after the movie, though, you’re talking to one of the friendliest people you’ll find in the bar of the Alamo … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: The Producer

Posted on December 14, 2022 by Don

Willeford said he sent his 1960 novel in under the title The Director, before Newsstand Library changed it to The Woman Chaser. The director for the movie didn’t make it to this screening (I heard it may have been an … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: For the Q&A

Posted on December 14, 2022 by Don

Toward the Q&A following the screening of The Woman Chaser with Patrick Warburton in the role of Richard Hudson, I poked around in my book Willeford for any tidbits of info on the novel — a Paperback Original released by … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Q&A

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Don

For the Alamo Drafthouse special screening of The Woman Chaser on December 7, they followed the film with a Q&A featuring — left to right, above — me, Joe McSpadden, Patrick Warburton (panelists) and Jake Isgar (moderator). Don’t think I’d … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: The Woman Chaser

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Don

Joe McSpadden, producer for 1999’s The Woman Chaser, mentioned that the December 7 showing in the Alamo Drafthouse put the movie on the largest screen ever — swell deal for cineastes. Above, a still frame of star Patrick Warburton as … Continue reading →

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Mort: Fred Ward

Posted on May 19, 2022 by Don

After the fact, word drifted in that Fred Ward died on Sunday May 9 at the age of 79. Got to note it here since — as pictured above — Fred was the first to essay the role of Charles … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: At NoirCon (2012)

Posted on March 26, 2021 by Don

At least I presume the image above connects to NoirCon. That’s how I read the clews. I only attended the very first NoirCon, in 2008, where I was amazed that for the Charles Willeford “panel” they had some academic talking … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Sam Invades Manchette Territory

Posted on March 23, 2021 by Don

Terry Zobeck pops along the news from The Rap Sheet that unbeknownst to us Sam Spade moved to France and is about to get into some 1960s colonial action, as in a Jean-Patrick Manchette novel! Well, hell, I wasn’t expecting … Continue reading →

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Frisco Beat: A Slice of Life 1979-90

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Don

Our man on the street, Nathan Ward — keeping his eye on the New York scene — sends along his latest find: “I liked this evocation of San Francisco from 79-90 by the novelist Rachel Kushner in the current New … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Padgett Powell Book Posts Willeford

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Don

Aha. Another guy has just discovered the late great Charles Willeford and covers the waterfront on the direct-to-your-inbox service Book Post. If interested, hop to the link fast — I have no idea what the archiving is like. My book … Continue reading →

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