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THE SHOOTING

By | November 2000

MONTE HELLMAN SPECTACULAR! NEW ON DVD! When most film buffs think of the great revisionist Westerns of the 1960’s and 1970’s, the director’s that always first come to mind are Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. Thanks to a pair of new DVD’s America can learn the one name that belongs right up there with them: Monte Hellman…

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