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California Conquest (Columbia, 1952)

  Swashbuckling in old California     We were saying the other day, in our review of one such picture, that there was a little sub-genre of Westerns with Deep South settings, which we might call ‘Southerns’. They often had antebellum New Orleans settings and featured swordfights and duels rather than gunfights. Well, there was […]