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Two old masters.(John Ford and the American West)(Million Dollar Baby)(Rope Burns reissued as Million Dollar Baby)(Movie Review)(Book Review)
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO I found myself in Old Tucson, Arizona. Old Tucson is a standing set built first for the film of the same name, then altered--dressed and redressed it is called in the industry--for classic westerns such as Rio Bravo and Gunfight at the OK Corral. A fan of the genre since the 1950s, I was in seventh heaven. I reeled off one still after another. I didn't have to work for classic Western compositions; they were inherent in the design of the town.
During the same visit I had seen the exhibition and bought the book of western film stills by John R. Hamilton, Thunder in the Dust. Hamilton takes advantage of the world created by western film-makers' ...
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