Michael Murphy

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1) McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Publisher

Warner Home Video

Pub. Date

2002.

Language

English

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With winnings from a small-time card hustle, McCabe buys three girls and sets up a makeshift whorehouse and casino. A madame talks him into backing a real bordello complete with professionals from Seattle.

2) American experience: Transcontinental railroad

Publisher

PBS Home Video

Pub. Date

2006.

Language

English

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Examines the building of the transcontinental railroad, from several angles: its financing by enterprising and unscrupulous entrepreneurs; its creation by determined, inventive engineers; its backbreaking construction by laborers from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds; and its devastating impact on the Native Americans whose land the project plowed through.