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The Man Behind the Cape

by | Jan 30, 2009 | Western Movies

Taylor Hackford reveals how Boetticher battled the bulls in a rough-and-tumble movie world.
As the dust continues to settle, and the perspective changes in our grasp of what the Western was and who played a significant role in shaping it, or in some cases subverting it, certain figures rise to prominence. With only a handful of low-budgeted films, all made within a few years in the second half of the 1950s, and all starring


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