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This Late '40s Western TV Series Features An Actor We Don't Talk About Today
After John Ford pulled a legendary performance out of John Wayne in 1939's "Stagecoach," the once flailing genre was revitalized. Suddenly the Western moved out of "poverty row" and was taken seriously again.
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After John Ford pulled a legendary performance out of John Wayne in 1939's "Stagecoach," the once flailing genre was revitalized. Suddenly the Western moved out of "poverty row" and was taken seriously again. One man who straddled both sides of this seminal evolution of the genre was William Boyd, who in the 1930s and '40s played cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy on the silver screen before bringing him to TV in yet another seminal moment for the Western. And yet you probably never heard of him.
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