The Western was fair game in 1970, when the movie Little Big Man was released. Those were cynical times, and people were polarized—politically, socially, culturally—but Westerns were a constant; the difference was diverse groups watched them. John Wayne kept older audiences in their seats, but other people were watching movies like The Wild Bunch, Soldier Blue, A Man Called Horse and a great many Spaghetti Westerns, when you could find them. But Little Big Man was the first time that
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