Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
The Bravados (1958)
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The Bravados (1958)

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We mistake things, I’ve come to believe, if we suppose that the American western film was mainly about action, with men shooting each other up in most unlikely ways, or about some simplistic formula of the good guys wearing the white hats and the bad guys wearing the black hats. We make a similar mistake when we want movies about outer space to center …

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