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J. Hoberman An Army of Phantoms, Cold War film series: Only the Valiant + This is Korea!

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As a special follow-up series BAM invites critic J. Hoberman back after 2008's 30 years of J. Hoberman for the publication of his new book "An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War" and a special film series featuring 13 Cold War-era films.

(1951) Only the Valiant directed by Gordon Douglas with Gregory Peck, Barbara Payton and Ward Bond, www.imdb.com/title/tt0043885 .

(1951) This is Korea! directed by John Ford

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Film description by J. Hoberman:

No genre reflected the Korean War more vividly than the cavalry western.  In this grim, under-appreciated example, the overextended US forces are beset by Apache guerrillas- a situation paralleled in and explicated by John Ford's equally downbeat documentary This is Kora!

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