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Article: Truth, justice and the American way. (influence American Western film genre had on other cultures) (U.S. News & World Report: 60th Anniversary) (Cover Story)
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- October 25, 1993
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The Motion Picture and Television Almanac of 1952-53 dismissed Lebanon, the country of my birth, as a market of little significance for the American film, saying it "has not a nice income and was the stage of many scenes of troubles and manifestations against theaters." This is news to me: In the early 1950s, when I was coming of age, my generation was held in thrall by the Hollywood Westerns. From them we picked up American slang and a romance for the distant power casting a shadow across us. American pop culture traveled with ease: In the '50s, it came with a vengeance into our world.
I was 9 or 10, in 1954 or '55, when I saw Fred Zinnemann's masterpiece High ...