I Lost It At The Movies

The theater was our classroom for my brother and me, a clacking projector for a teacher, and there in the dark, we studied the right stuff: how to leap from a high building onto one’s horse, shoot from the hip, rope an outlaw riding full speed, and follow through on a right cross. I Lost it at the Movies captures the essence of film of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Rickard’s prose is haunting, poignant, sensual, and brooding, projecting readers back to a time when cinema was the principal form of entertainment. The prose, accompanied by Jack’s art, guides readers down happy trails, yellow brick roads, oceans of grass, unexplored jungles, snowcapped mountains, and a small, bleak north Texas town where the last picture show beckons us in. All book profits will be donated to the Kingman Heritage Hall of Honor, Kingman, Kansas.