Movie Details

Title

Hearts of the West

Overview

Naive Iowa farm boy Lewis Tater dreams of being a famous Western novelist like his hero, Zane Grey. He leaves home to answer a writing correspondence course's ad for on-campus classes, only to discover that the school consists of a row of postboxes at an isolated Nevada train depot. On the run from the con men responsible, Lewis stumbles across "real" cowboys--cowboy actors shooting a movie in the desert. The would-be writer soon finds himself instead acting in Westerns, for the rundown Tumbleweed Productions studio, in Depression-era Hollywood.

Runtime

1 h 42 min

Release Date

8 October 1975

Actors

Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin, Blythe Danner, Andy Griffith, Alex Rocco, Richard B. Shull, Anthony James, Donald Pleasence, Frank Cady, Herb Edelman, Burton Gilliam, Matt Clark, Dub Taylor, Marie Windsor

Certification

PG

Genres

Comedy, Western

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