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The Winchester 73 Is a Western Starring Anthony Mann and Jimmy Stewart
Anthony Mann made a series of five films together with Jimmy Stewart. None of them indulge in the same kind of anti-Native American racist racism that we see in Ford, right? There is anti-Black racism in Bend of the River, which is horrific and it's a comic relief kind of thing. But there isn't the other kind. It's never for Mann in these Jimmy Stewart Westerns native figure. And I think that's really, really important. Yeah.
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