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The Wild Wild West

by | Oct 2, 2006 | Western Movies

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The Wild Wild West was a hit for boomer kids who came through the glut of TV Westerns in the late 1950s, only to stumble into puberty with James Bond. James Conrad was West, James West, a strutting, studly secret agent who wore skintight pants and tailored bolero jackets, and worked for President Ulysses S. Grant. He had his own train, a hammy sidekick and an arsenal of exploding, shooting and stabbing gizmos, and he was forever besieged by a legion of strange, cackling foes, bent on various


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