I liked this movie when it came out. I don't remember if I saw it in a theater or on HBO or both, but I hadn't seen it in years. I came across it on DVD at the public library. It was interesting but not as good as I remember.
Jeff Bridges as a youth who wants to write western novels for a living. A correspondence school accepts him as a student. He travels there expecting to find a college campus, but it's just a post office box. The men running the scam try to rob him and he flees into the desert where he comes across a cheap western film being shot. He soon finds himself in the movie industry.
Part of a wave of movies at the time about Hollywood of the '20's and '30's which wasn't that many years earlier. Back then, I saw an old guy on TV---he would only have been in his 70's---talk about appearing in silent westerns as a teenager. He said the cowboys were nice guys. They were very protective of him, which may have just been their job if he was an actor and they were stuntmen.
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