The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh (2021)

This is the first featurelength documentary on legendary director Raoul Walsh In this memoir Walsh recounts his career from the silent film era to the tumultuous 1960s The documentary makes stunning use of rare personal and production photos and footage revealing Walshs extraordinary adventurous life on and off the set From his apprenticeship with DW Griffith to his discovery of John Wayne and Rock Hudson from the innovative The Thief of Bagdad 1924 to the widescreen The Big Trail 1930 from his classic work with Cagney Bogart and Flynn to his mastery of every genre musicals comedies Westerns gangster war Walsh made Hollywood history His life is nothing less than the story of Hollywood itself Heres a fullbodied account of one of Hollywoods greatest legends