McMurtry On Film

“I’ve never scorned screenwriting,” McMurtry writes in his memoir , noting that he’s been hired on nearly 70 jobs in Tinseltown. “It’s a necessary and honorable craft.” McMurtry gets co-writing, about an Oregon man who walks across the country. Until that comes out, these McMurtry films are worth a second (or third) screening — so is , of course, but that miniseries didn’t make the list because it was adapted for TV by Texas treasure Bill Wittliff.