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Duel on the Mississippi (Columbia, 1955)

  Carriages and crinolines     There’s a whole little sub-genre of Westerns set in the Deep South, often with an antebellum setting and with not gunfights but swordfights (not a Western staple, unless you count Zorro pictures as oaters). We think of Alan Ladd as an unlikely Jim Bowie in New Orleans in The […]