WILD BILL WELLMAN: HOLLYWOOD REBEL CASABLANCA Finkelstein

Finkelstein

3 cm (6 x 14") (13

the organization that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—has yet to be understood

Here is a portrait of a profoundly American spirit and visionary

WILD BILL WELLMAN: HOLLYWOOD REBEL CASABLANCA FinkelsteinThe extraordinary lifethe firstof the legendary, undercelebrated Hollywood director known in his day as Wild Bill (and he was!) Wellman, whose eighty two movies (six of them uncredited), many of them iconic; many of them sharp, cold, brutal; others poetic, moving; all of them a lesson in close up art, ranged from adventure and gangster pictures to comedies, aviation, romances, westerns, and searing social dramas. Among his iconic pictures: the