Jim Bridger J. Cecil Alter

Sur les traces du plus grand mountain man de l'OuestaméricainEn 1822, le jeune Jim n'a pas encore 18 ans mais il sait que l'aventure l'attend à l'ouest de Saint-Louis, cette ville marchande et cosmopolite du Missouri située à l'extrémité du front pionnier. Le coeur ouvert à l'inconnu, il débute sa carrière de trappeur en s'engageant dans la première grande expédition, celle de William Ashley, qui avec deux bateaux et une centaine de volontaires, remonte la haute vallée du Missouri à la recherche de «l'or brun des Rocheuses», les peaux de castor.

Bobby Bridger, Merging Of Our Minds, produced by Bobby Bridger, Production supervision: Ron Kramer for E. H. Morris Productions, Executive Producer: Joe Reisman. Recorded at Fred Carter, Jr. Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, Remixed at RCA Studios, Hollywood, California, Recording Engineers: Jesse Tharp and Fred Carter Jr., Remix Engineer: Micky Crawford, Cover Photo: Steve Josefsberg. The Musicians are: Bobby Bridger: acoustic six string guitar, Fred Carter, Jr. electric guitar, and six string acoustic guitar, John Pell: 12 string acoustic guitar, and six string acoustic guitar, Pete Drake: pedal steel guitar, and slide guitar, Steve Schaefer: bass, Karl Himmel: Drums and percussion, Jim Wolfe: drums on “Merging of Our Minds”, Andy McMahon: piano and organ, Dennis Burnside: piano and organ,Billy Cartier: drums on “Fompin’ Around”. Background Vocals: Carol Montgomery, Reba Rambo, and Bobby Bridger. Strings and horns arranged by Don Tweedy

Cecil B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man is a first and a last. The 1914 version is widely regarded as the first feature film made in Hollywood. And DeMille makes the final film under his MGM contract with a 1931 Talkie of the oft-told tale (DeMille lensed a second silent version in 1918) about a British outcast in the West, his Native American bride and events that shatter their happiness. The films vary greatly. The first is packed with events – a horse race, a brawl with a Scotland Yarder, a shipboard fire, a night in New York – that foreshadow DeMille’s ambitious narrative reach. The second hones in on the tender and ultimately heartbreaking familial relationship. Same story. Same filmmaker. A rare chance to experience them in different ways.