With his debut movie, “The Harder They Fall,” the British writer-director blew apart the staid and white conventions of the Western. Now, with his follow-up, “The Book of Clarence,” he takes on the Biblical epic. a man of prodigious energy and ideas, Samuel says he sometimes thinks he might be the “best storyteller in the world”. Who’s to say he’s wrong?
If you had any doubt that Jeymes Samuel, the director of “The Harder They Fall” and the British musician known as the Bullits, loves Westerns, then you haven't heard him sing Dean Martin's “My Rifle, My Pony and Me” from John Ford's “Rio Bravo.”