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Magic Town

film by Wellman [1947]

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  • In William Wellman: Films of the 1940s

    …into the roots of aviation; Magic Town (1947), a satire of Middle America written by longtime Frank Capra collaborator Robert Riskin, featured James Stewart as a pollster who locates the average American town; and The Iron Curtain (1948) was a Cold War drama about Russian espionage in Canada. Arguably

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