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Tag Archives: Four Star Theater
Rediscovered: Willeford’s Cockfighter
Fifty years slips past when you’re not even looking. For example, how long ago was it that Warren Oates in Cockfighter hit the silver screen? Fifty years? Correct you are. Based on the novel by Charles Willeford. The blurbage for … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Frisco, News, Willeford
Tagged Betsy Willeford, Four Star Theater, Kier-la Janisse, Warren Oates
