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Aldrich, Leone and Vera Cruz: Style and Substance over the Border
Uploaded 30 June 2000 As coincidence would have it, Robert Aldrich’s western Vera Cruz and Robert Warshow’s seminal essay on the genre, “Movie chronicle: the westerner” both appeared in 1954. [1] And both, in their own way, star Gary Cooper. Vera Cruz is a picaresque tale of two American soldiers of fortune in Mexico – Cooper and Burt Lancaster – who sell their services to the …
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