Due to the dominion television held over the movies at the time, Hollywood cinema in the early 1960s was so desperate to justify its existence that it often relied, rather unimaginatively, on flashy spectacle. The studios became so enamored of expensive period pieces that it can take a little digging to find American films from this era made about this era.
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