Word: demillian
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...full canvas is as honest and acceptable a piece of western folklore as the cinema cameras have yet recorded. The topic has been so thoroughly covered from quickies on poverty row to DeMillian extravaganzas, so adroitly burlesqued in recent films like Rangers of Fortune and The Westerner, that otherwise good melodrama may seem to sophisticates slightly corny. But it is ripe, tasty corn...
...initial chapter, ragged men, broad-shouldered and deep-chested, strain every muscle to drag along the heavy Volga barges. As they trudge along they sing, and the Wurlitzer accompanies them with most sombre effect. In the final chapter, we have the same music, the same words, but with true DeMillian touch, the characters have changed. The prince, in his emaculate uniform, the princess, in her satin slippers and glittering evening gown, and others in like garb, have replaced the ragged horde that formerly stumbled along the narrow tow-path...
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