Word: wyler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rapidly replacing the Indian as exemplars of tribal villainy. Mandatory violence is provided by scenes of the forcible rape of a black woman, the throat-slitting of a black man, and the lovingly detailed dens ex machina of a cop chewed to death by a threshing machine. Director William Wyler (The Friendly Persuasion), who once knew better, now forces his actors to boom their lines as if they were reading them from the base of a monument. Under his ham hand, each confrontation seems like an incitement to violence rather than understanding...