34th Lone Pine Film Festival Coming In October

The 34th Lone Pine Film Festival returns next month!

The festival will take place in Lone Pine, California, on Columbus Day Weekend, October 10th through 13th.

The 2024 guests will include a mix of familiar festival visitors along with new faces. The list of actors, film historians, and relatives of filmmakers planning to attend includes Patrick Wayne, Robert Carradine, Bruce Boxleitner, Burton Gilliam, Rory Flynn, Cheryl Rogers Barnett, Wyatt McCrea, Alan K. Rode, Jeremy Arnold, Michael F. Blake, Rob Word, Darby Hinton, Diamond Farnsworth, Marc Wanamaker, and Tom Tyler's niece, Sandra Slepski, plus several more great names beyond these. It's going to be a very exciting festival!

Pianist J.C. Munns will once again be providing silent film accompaniment.

This year's films include:

*A 75th anniversary screening of SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949)

*An 80th anniversary screening of the Hopalong Cassidy film MYSTERY MAN (1944)

*THE TALL T (1957) starring Randolph Scott, directed by Budd Boetticher

*THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE (1936) with Errol Flynn

*ROCKY MOUNTAIN (1950) with Errol Flynn

*CATTLE EMPIRE (1958) starring Joel McCrea

*TRAIL OF ROBIN HOOD (1950) with Roy Roger and Jack Holt

*NEVADA (1944) with Robert Mitchum

*THE ARIZONA RANGER (1948) starring Tim Holt

And even more, including silent movies starring William S. Hart and Jack Hoxie!

This year's tours include locations for MYSTERY MAN, NEVADA, THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL, and more.

There are also tours focused on famed photographer Ansel Adams: Ansel Adams at the Alabama Hills and Ansel Adams at Manzanar. The Manzanar National Historic Site is north of Lone Pine on Highway 395. The annual Sunrise Tour will also take place.

There will also be three horseback location tours guided by my husband and McGee Creek Pack Station.

Many of the tours have already sold out. Anyone considering attending who doesn't yet have passes and tour tickets should book as soon as possible.

For those who are new to the festival, my coverage of previous festivals may be found at these links: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2022. Each of these annual overview posts contains links to several additional posts covering that year's festival with lots of photos and information about the festival experience.

My schedule last fall was so heavy I only wrote briefly here about the 2023 festival. I also shared locations from last year's festival at Classic Movie Hub.

My 2021 Classic Movie Hub preview may be found here, and photos of film locations visited at the 2021 festival are at Classic Movie Hub here.

Please visit the Lone Pine Film Festival site for complete details.

I'll have more coverage of the festival here this fall! I highly recommend attending, it's always one of my favorite weeks of the entire year.

Update: Please visit my Western RoundUp column "Lone Pine Film Festival 2024" at Classic Movie Hub for a photo-filled look at this year's fest!

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