And the annual Financial Support of hello, im john lithgow. Welcome to american cinema. In the man who shot liberty lance, john fords great film a newspaperman says, whethe legendecomes fact, print the legend. That may not be Good Journalism but it makes a good western. The history of the western is often a history of legends, billy the kid, wyatt ear the nfht at the ok corral. Not the real west, but a mythical place full of images that are uniquely american the enrontier, the outlaw, the solitary, often reluant hero. The western is also landscapes; a unique stage on which dramas from the American Experience get played out. A young man rebels against his stepfathern red river. An uncle beces obsessed with finding his niece in the searchers. A reformed killer is caught up in a venance out of control in unforgiven. Since the great train robbery of 1903, hundreds of westerns have been made. Its the Great American form, our equivalent of classic greek tragedy, where we replay and reinterpr
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