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Paul Newman Westerns

Paul Newman made eight westerns: The Left-Handed Gun (1958) Hud (1963) The Outrage (1964) Hombre (1967) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Pocket Money (1972) The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bill’s History Lesson (1976) All but two also have Drama as a genre.  The two that somehow “don’t” are: The Left-Handed Gun and Hombre. The Left-Handed Gun, in which Newman recreates the title role from a 1955 Philco Playhouse production called The Death of Billy the Kid, is an adult, psychological, apparently Method-acted western. Hombre is about “relationships -- societal and political,” a white man raised by American Indians, betrayal, and adultery, portrayed with, as one critic put it, “unrelenting pessimism." Yet, IMDb has declined to accept the contribution of Drama as a genre for both films.  Why?  

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Drama has also disappeared as a genre for Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bill’s History Lesson (1976).

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Hi @bradley_kent - This issue is being discussed by our policy team on whether or not this movies should have other genres besides western added to them, you will get an answer on that thread once they define our policy around this. Thanks!