The
setting of this film is Texas in the 1930’s. Novalyne Price wants to be a writer and she meets Robert Howard. He makes his
living as the writer of fiction stories, Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja
and Solomon Kane. They begin a three-year
friendship/romance. Robert states the
road I walk, I walk alone. That
doesn’t leave much choice for Novalyne. She realizes she is better suited to being a teacher instead of a writer and she
moves to take a position in Lafayette Louisiana.
Price
and Howard were in love but he had a lot of issues. He shouted out the words to his stories as he typed
them. The townspeople thought he was crazy? He was unusually attached to
his mother and they lived together after she was divorced from Howard’s
father. This film is interesting
and I liked the cars and clothing of the period. 3 ½* (I liked this movie)
111
min, Bio directed by Dan Ireland with Vincent D’Onofrio, Renee Zellweger, Ann
Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell, Benjamin Mouton, Michael Corbett, Helen Cates.
Note: Imdb 7.3 out of 10, 81% critic 72%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4.6* out of 5* with 138 reviews.
Special
Note: Price continued to teach and
she retired at the age of 76.
After her retirement she wrote One Who Walked Alone and Day of the
Stranger, both about Robert Howard.
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