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Devil’s Doorway (1950)

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Anthony Mann’s second western, The Furies (1950), is an operatically volatile, incest-laden vehicle for daddy Walter Huston and daughter Barbara Stanwyck. Next came Devil’s Doorway, an elegy for the American Indian. Hollywood was at last treating Native Americans with respect and compassion. Released in the summer of 1950, Delmer Daves’s Broken Arrow, a film that [...]

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Devil’s Doorway (1950): The Native-American Perspective

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Mann’s second western, The Furies (1950), is an operatically volatile, incest-laden vehicle for daddy Walter Huston and daughter Barbara Stanwyck. Next came Devil’s Doorway, an elegy for the American Indian. Hollywood was at last treating Native Americans with respect and compassion. Released in the summer of 1950, Delmer Daves’s Broken Arrow, a film that treated [...]

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