Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood

Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood
Author	Larry McMurtry
Language	English
Genre	Essays
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	June 1, 1987
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages	228
ISBN	0743216245

Last updated March 08, 2025

Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood is a 1987 collection of essays by writer Larry McMurtry about the film industry, including his own experiences with the adaptations of his novels.^[2]^[3]

The book was based in part on a regular column McMurtry wrote for American Film , a magazine for the American Film Institute.^[4]

Reception

Kirkus Reviews praised the book, writing: "McMurtry's modest essays on Hollywood screenwriting and films generally are among the most literate and absorbing in recent memory, especially when set beside William Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade."^[1]

References

1 2 "Film Flam". Kirkus Reviews.
↑ McMurtry, Larry (1987). "Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood". Publishers Weekly.
↑ Champlin, Charles (15 November 2008). "Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood by Larry McMurtry". Los Angeles Times.
↑ McMurtry, Larry (2010). Hollywood: A Third Memoir . New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 27. ISBN 978-1439159958.

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[kirkus-1] 1 2 "Film Flam". Kirkus Reviews.

[2] McMurtry, Larry (1987). "Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood". Publishers Weekly.

[3] Champlin, Charles (15 November 2008). "Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood by Larry McMurtry". Los Angeles Times.

[4] McMurtry, Larry (2010). Hollywood: A Third Memoir . New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 27. ISBN 978-1439159958.

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v t e Larry McMurtry
Novels	Horseman, Pass By (1961) Leaving Cheyenne (1963) The Last Picture Show (1966) Moving On (1970) All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972) Terms of Endearment (1975) Somebody's Darling (1978) Cadillac Jack (1982) The Desert Rose (1983) Lonesome Dove (1985) Texasville (1987) Anything for Billy (1988) Some Can Whistle (1989) Buffalo Girls (1990) The Evening Star (1992) Streets of Laredo (1993) Pretty Boy Floyd (1994) Dead Man's Walk (1995) The Late Child (1995) Comanche Moon (1997) Zeke and Ned (1997) Duane's Depressed (1999) Boone's Lick (2000) Sin Killer (2002) The Wandering Hill (2003) By Sorrow's River (2003) Folly and Glory (2004) Loop Group (2005) Telegraph Days (2006) When the Light Goes (2007) Rhino Ranch: A Novel (2009) The Last Kind Words Saloon (2014)
History	Crazy Horse: A Life (1999) The Colonel and Little Missie (2005) Oh What a Slaughter! (2006) Custer (2012)
Memoirs	Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (1999) Roads: Driving America's Great Highways (2000) Paradise (2001) Books: A Memoir (2008) Literary Life: A Second Memoir (2009) Hollywood: A Third Memoir (2010)
Essays	In a Narrow Grave (1968) Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood (1987) Sacagawea's Nickname (2001)
Films written	The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988) Montana (1990) Memphis (1992) Falling from Grace (1992) Streets of Laredo (1995) Johnson County War (2002) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Joe Bell (2020)
Adaptations	Hud (1963) The Last Picture Show (1971) Lovin' Molly (1974) Terms of Endearment (1983) Lonesome Dove (1989) Texasville (1990) Return to Lonesome Dove (1993) Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994-95) Streets of Laredo (1995) Buffalo Girls (1995) Lonesome Dove: The Series (1995–96) Dead Man's Walk (1996) The Evening Star (1996) Comanche Moon (2008)
Other	Diana Ossana