Veritable Melodramas of Eyeballs

“Pleasure is, let’s say, Errol Flynn or Rock Hudson in a film by Raoul Walsh, charging as a block toward their fate.” – Serge Daney

After Ford and Hawks, Raoul Walsh is the other great all-around director of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Not a lot of women in his masculine films but they’re always important, and there’s always adventure. “Veritable melodramas of eyeballs,” Tag Gallagher says.

I could write some stuff but you’d be better off just reading Tag (even if he claims–ludicrously!–that The Man I...