5 Cinematic Couplings That Really Have Legs

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From 1939 to 1966, the Duke and Pappy made 14 films together. This package contains eight of their burliest, including The Searchers, that towering, troubling essay on race, sex and Manifest Destiny. It also has Wayne's starmaking turn in Stagecoach and the late-'40s cavalry films Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. All these westerns constitute a romantic first draft of American expansionist history, with Wayne as the surly Moses, urging his settlers on toward the promised land.

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