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Seven Cities of Gold (Fox, 1955)

  Routine costume drama   There have been many Westerns, or pre-Westerns perhaps we should call them, frontier stories anyway, set in eighteenth-century colonial and revolutionary times. Many featured Hawkeye, in different incarnations, or Daniel Boone or other intrepid and usually buckskin-clad pioneers with long muskets.   But there are far fewer pre-nineteenth century tales […]