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From: jay@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: STAGECOACH
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 15:21:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 15:21:37 1985
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Reply-To: jay@umd5.UUCP (Jay Elvove)
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>     Parts of STAGECOACH today are cliche.  Its 96-minute plot still manages
>to fit in the two greatest cliche scenes of westerns: the showdown and the
>last-minute charge of the cavalry.
>
>					Mark R. Leeper

John Ford is generally credited with inventing most of what have become
cliches in the Western genre.  As such, I don't think it's fair to
criticize him just because (as Firesign Theater used to say) "hindsight
is golden".
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Jay Elvove       ..!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umd5!jay