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In this Studios Year by Year episode, 1936 begins with\xa0Paramount, and we take a look at two movies about gun-running that star Gary Cooper, but have little else in common (despite using the same cinematographer). We don't find much to love about Cecil B. DeMille's tribute to Wild West mythology,\xa0The Plainsman, starring Gary Cooper as an insufficiently\xa0hirsute Wild Bill Hickock and Jean Arthur as a whip-happy Calamity Jane; but Dave waxes enthusiastic about Lewis Milestone's\xa0The General Died at Dawn, an off-kilter Popular Front movie that's half-Hitchcock espionage romance, half-poetic realist manifesto. You know it\u2019s wonderful, and we know you\u2019re wonderful too.

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0h 01m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 THE PLAINSMAN (dir. Cecil DeMille)

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Review paragraphs from \u2013 The Paramount Story by John Douglas Eames

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* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s

*Intro Song: \u201cSunday\u201d by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of\xa0The Internet Archive)

* Find Elise\u2019s latest film piece on\xa0Billy Wilder and 1930s Romantic Comedy

*And Read lots of Elise\u2019s Writing at\xa0Bright Wall/Dark Room,\xa0Cl\xe9o, and\xa0Bright Lights.*

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