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The Hays Code banned apparent animal cruelty in Why do Westerns show mainly male horses? Yakima Canutt, the legendary Hollywood stunt man and occasional John Wayne double , created one dangerous procedure involving horses.

The animal drowned; the horse either broke its spine or panicked. Was the Apache Kid never caught?

How many horses have been injured during filming of Hollywood Westerns? If you have a question, write: Ask the Marshall, P. Box , Cave Creek, AZ or e-mail him at marshall. His Running W device threaded a wire, anchored to the ground, through a ring on the cinch, to the fetlocks of a galloping horse. Did that truly happen?

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How about a Hooper Spring Soda Water! During the chariot race in the film Ben-Hur, up to horses were killed. Carleton Cooley …. The animal fell and launched the rider forwards spectacularly—but the horse was often injured or killed.

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This collection of 12 essays examines films from an ecocritical point of view. Pancho Villa wear one? When the horse reached the end of the wire, his forelegs were yanked out beneath him.