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Sergeant Rutledge is a 1960 American Technicolor Western film directed by John Ford and starring Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Woody Strode and Billie Burke. The title was also used for the novelization published in the same year. The film continues to attract attention because it was one of the first mainstream American films to treat racism frankly and feature a Black actor.
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The hyperpartisan tribalistic divisions that characterise contemporary American society are not merely a modern phenomenon; they echo throughout the nation’s past, leading to the compartmentalisation of many grand historical figures into simplistic binary camps. John Ford, one of the titans of 20th-century cinema, finds himself largely perceived as a right-wing figure, primarily due to his Republican affiliations, h…More
