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A lost film of the American Revolution
As the country’s 250th anniversary approaches, one of Hollywood's minor mysteries has resurfaced: Why have so few major movies been made about the American Revolution?
Michael D. Hattem, a scholar of the colonial period and the author of "The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History," suggested recently that one reason may be a century-old jinx laid across the land after what happened to the filmmaker Robert Goldstein, who made Hollywood's first film about the Revolution. The film has since been lost — possibly forever.
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