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A genre where the desert is honest and the men, conveniently, are not.
means A story set in the 19th-century American frontier, full of cowboys, gunfights, and moral showdowns under big skies.
from From Old English 'westan,' the direction of the setting sun; the film genre rode in around 1910 as Hollywood pointed its cameras at frontier myth.
Italian rootsSpaghetti Westerns were shot mostly in Spain.
Box officeOnce dominated cinema, now a rare, deliberate revival.
Showdown mythReal gunfights were messy, brief, rarely a noon duel.