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‘Hell on Wheels’ Has Found Its Way

Deadwooden No More

Allen Barra argues the maligned Western has gained its footing with excellent acting and ambitious scope.

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The brainchild of the brothers Joe and Tony Gayton, AMC’s Hell on Wheels is the first Western on any size screen to tell the awesome and occasionally exhausting story of the post–Civil War construction of the transcontinental railroad.

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