The Round-Up: A Pictorial History of Western Movie and Television Stars Through the Years [Hardcover]

Donald R. Key (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Empire Pub; 1St Edition edition (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0944019129
• ISBN-13: 978-0944019122
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #965,775 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent gift for the Western movie buff!, August 13, 2001

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Amanda Odom (Spartanburg, SC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Round-Up: A Pictorial History of Western Movie and Television Stars Through the Years (Hardcover)

I bought this gift for my Dad. He is extremely difficult to buy for and hardly ever gets excited, but he LOVED this book! He couldn't put it down!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "for all the B-Western & "A" Western film-buffs to savor", September 6, 2005

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J. Lovins "Mr. Jim" (Missouri-USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Round-Up: A Pictorial History of Western Movie and Television Stars Through the Years (Hardcover)

Empire Publishing presents "The Round-up: A Pictorial History of Western Movie and Television Stars Through the Years", reporting in one short paragraph the profile on each page with a photograph, synopsis of their films, career, birth dates and date they left us...compiled and edited by Donald R. Key featuring 300 cowboy stars, sidekicks, heroines, villains and character actors.

Tables of Contents with page numbers:
A Word From the Publisher - 8
Acknowledgments - 10
Foreword by Monte Hale - 12
Art Acord - 14 (first actor on the roster)
Tony Young - 312 (last actor on the roster)
Let's Not Forget - 313
Afterword By Neil Summers - 316

Many of the stars within this publication gave us hours of entertainment...their careers of excellence and dedication to the craft of acting...the audiences who were so faithful for several decades...all the cast members took their job very seriously and the audience would not settle for anything less than the best...and it showed up there on the big screen.

Would like to close this review with a thought from Monte Hale, it goes something like this:
Life is Like a Journey,
Taken on a train
With a pair of travelers at each window pane,
I may sit beside you the whole journey through,
Or I may sit elsewhere, never knowing you,
But if fate should mark us to sit here side by side,
Let's be pleasant travelers, because it's such a short ride.

Those are some touching words from Monte Hale, thank you Donald R. Key for printing this verse.

Great reading in the days and weeks to come...I guarantee it!...now appearing on Amazon and Empire Publishing ...many tidbits I never knew...if you're a TV and Movie western fan, this one's for you, don't let it pass you by...so saddle up and let's get started on the drive, move 'em out!

Total Page: 320 pages ~ Empire Publishing 0-944019-12-9 ~ (10/01/1995)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great poster like pictures, August 4, 2008

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Judith A. Brett (crookwell nsw australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Round-Up: A Pictorial History of Western Movie and Television Stars Through the Years (Hardcover)

i thought that the pictures where quite good but a little more could have been written in the small boxes and it needs to be updated