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'The Ballad Of Lefty Brown' Is A Variation On A Familiar Tune

Bill Pullman stars as an Old West sidekick who loses his hero and embarks upon a quest for vengeance in writer/director Jared Moshe's straight-shooting Western.
A sidekick (Bill Pullman) gets kicked upstairs in <em>The Ballad of Lefty Brown</em>.

Jared Moshe, the writer and director of The Ballad of Lefty Brown, is a fan of classic Westerns and he's made a movie that should please fellow aficionados. He offers one twist on the formula, but the plot, setting, and widescreen images are all as standard-issue as a Colt 45.

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