From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

Today I can hardly contain my excitement about my guest, writer-director Walter Hill,

who has defined the action film in this country in a way that other directors had not.

Going back to one of my favorite films, hard times through the Warriors, through 48 hours, through his amazing Geronimo and American legend, on up to his new picture, his new two-part mini-series for AMC.

Walter, first of all, thanks so much for coming to do the show to talk about it.

Oh, it's my pleasure.

Talk about what got you into doing a four-hour mini-series for AMC.

What was that all about?

Well, it turned out to be a four-hour miniseries.

Bob DeValle sent me a script, which had a different

title then, but was this story. I liked the story. And I doubted that we were going to get

finance for it as a feature, but, and unfortunately I was correct about that and he had developed it with

Alan Jeffrey on the writer and then about I don't know nine months year later he

came back and said would I do it as a television film and I said look I I think

it's good story and it. And it was a story that I not only thought had a terrific situation,

but I was looking for a chance to do a Western that wasn't kind of,

you were in the box of history.

Almost every Western I've done was in some way kind of confined by biographical circumstance.

In other words, Wild Bill has got to go down to the number 10 saloon and draw the aces

and eights and take the bullet and et cetera, et cetera.

So this was a pure story format, purely fictional.

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