All " Children of the Dust " has is some fine acting from Sidney Poitier and Regina Taylor ( " I'll Fly Away " ) wasted in an incredibly sudsy soap-horse opera.
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Tom Dey's slapstick kung fu horse opera, the twain meet in a series of rousing comic collisions, but in the geography of global pop culture they've never been all that far apart.
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A Jackie Chan vehicle, this kung fu horse opera trumps his last Hollywood outing in 1998, " Rush Hour, " by giving him a much better foil in the surprisingly funny Owen Wilson.
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Billy Bob Thornton directed this modern-day horse opera, which even when cut from four hours down to two feels longer than " Parsifal " and doesn't seem to be about anything at all.
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""'Lemonade Joe, or the Horse Opera " "'( ) is a 1964 Czechoslovak musical comedy film, directed by OldYich Lipsk?and written by JiY?Brde ka, based on his novel and stage play.
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I couldn't think of titles, so Terry provided names for both of them, " The Legend of Blackjack Sam " for the comic one, and " Gunfight at Laramie " for the horse opera.
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By contrast, Hollywood honored Copland with an Oscar ( for " The Heiress, " despite its non-Copland title music ) and quickly appropriated his lean, modernist style for psychological dramas and the grander horse operas.
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""'Horse Opera " "'was the 13th album of the Western swing trio Riders in the Sky, released in 1990, although most of it was recorded back in 1978 at the time of the band's first forming.
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Reeve stars with Tony Todd in these horse operas as Alan and Britt Johnson, a former plantation owner and his former childhood friend, whom he once freed from slavery _ and who subsequently took his last name.
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The Chan films'nearest kin in world cinema are the Saturday-matinee horse operas of the Depression and WWII years _ but get crossways with John Wayne in one of those pictures, and he'll blast you to Kingdom Come.
