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A 1946 classic initially intended to star John Wayne, but became one of the greatest Westerns of all time without him.

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In the span of just 66 days in the summer of 1946, three future ...

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If a filmmaker needed some pointers on how to make the best possible western, then they could have done a lot worse than talking to John Wayne, who defined the genre for a generation and more. ‘The ...

Joe Klein writes the “Sanity Clause” newsletter on Substack. The winter holidays of 1945-46 must have been a jolly time for the Greatest Generation. Many of them had just come home from the war and ...

At the end of the Second World War, a weakened France jostled for status alongside its European counterparts to regain its position as a great power once more. In 1946, although still sluggish, its ...