The Western mythos runs deep in James Mangold's work, going all the way back to Copland, his gritty urban drama from 1997 about a gang of outlaws who live out on a lawless patch of land called North Jersey, well out of the reach of the civilizing influence of Manhattan. By the third act of that film, what began as a police procedural has evolved into a re-telling of High Noon, complete with a bloody, one-man-against-many showdown. Then there's the honky-tonk world of Walk the Line, where men are expected...
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NEWSWIRE
Los Angeles, CA
AUG 27, 2007 06:00 AM