Dan Flores

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Gunfighters · Ep. 42: Favorite Films About the West | The American West · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

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And it's said in Missoula, Montana. voice-verified

uh which is where Norman McLean had grown up. voice-verified

Norman McLean uh was a professor, a longtime professor of English and English literature at the University of Chicago. voice-verified

And he only wrote a couple of books, and he wrote these books really at his retirement and after. voice-verified

Uh, and this one was the first one, and it's actually a collection of three stories. voice-verified

Um, A River Runs Through It is the longest one. voice-verified

It's kind of a novella, and the other two that are added to it are short stories, and the other two uh are not really that great, not very memorable. voice-verified

A River Runs Through It, though, is an extremely powerful story, and it's actually about something that happened to his family. voice-verified

family uh and his brother. voice-verified

And so Robert Redford got the film rights to it. voice-verified

They were owned at the time by Bill Kittridge and Onyx Smith, and Redford managed to get them to surrender the film rights to it as long as they could be pulled in as executive producers. voice-verified

And when I've asked voice-verified

Bill and Onik about it uh in the years after the film came out. voice-verified

I said, So what was your role as executive producers? voice-verified

And they said, Oh voice-verified

Couple of times we went and sat on the river and uh w drank beer and watched them shoot a scene. voice-verified

But they evidently didn't really make very many contributions, in part because the m the book voice-verified

And the events that are described are not filmed in the place where the movie is set. voice-verified

The movie is set and the the little novella is set in Missoula and the river is the Blackfoot River. voice-verified

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