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jazzab1971's review
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
4.5
Donald Cotton delivers another cracking novelisation.
nwhyte's review
http://nhw.livejournal.com/825455.html[return][return]Donald Cotton's novelisation of The Gunfighters is, I think justly, acknowledged as one of the great Target novelisations. It takers the basic theme of the televised story, but messes around immensely with the actual plot and details, especially in the last episode. The story is told in flashback, the dying Doc Holliday recounting events to Ned Buntline. The whole thing is done in a brilliant pastiche of Western idiom, and it is very entertaining. (Though I am in the very small minority in fandom who actually enjoyed the "Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon", a song linking scenes of the TV version which is of course dropped from the novel.)
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