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    BOSUN’S BAG

    Feb 12, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS TOM CUNLIFFE
    ILLUSTRATION
    MARTYN MACKRILL

    hey’re at it again. Every time I settle in to enjoy a period film or TV drama, all credibility is expunged by what really is the simplest of errors. Cowboy films are a good example. Here comes The Man with No Name to shoot the forces of darkness back to Hell where they belong. I’m hooked into the story up to my neck until I notice a detail that reveals beyond doubt that the director understands nothing. It even happens in Downton Abbey and recently in the much-vaunted Bridgerton currently making a fortune

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