Kamis, 09 November 2017

America’s Civil War Review: Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail (1940) Directed by Michael Curtiz THIS WARNER BROTHERS HORSE opera is full of historical inaccuracies. When it opened, New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther noted that “for anyone who has the slightest regard for the spirit— not to mention the facts—of American history, it will prove exceedingly annoying.” The story begins …

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