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horse opera

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horse opera
n.
A film or other theatrical work about the American West; a western.
horse opera
n
(Performing Arts) Informal another term for Western [4]
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Noun1.horse operahorse opera - a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development
Western
feature film, feature - the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater; "the feature tonight is `Casablanca'"
spaghetti Western - a low-budget Western movie produced by a European (especially an Italian) film company
Translations
horse opera n (hum) → western m inv
horse opera n (hum) → western m inv


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It does a little better with its subtler horse opera conceits: flashes of Ennio Morricone in John Lunn's witty score; Jimmy's fine outlaw swagger (even if he is little more than just a screw-up) in a long leather jacket that flaps like a frontier duster; Ifans' wry, Welsh, latter-day channeling of the ``Liberty Valance'' Jimmy Stewart.
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Autry's early recordings merged the western style with country music, then known as hillbilly, while his movies set the standard for the horse opera, with its white-hatted singing cowboy, heroic horse and bumbling sidekick, a format later taken up by Roy Rogers and others.
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Compliments to the real live horse - after all it is a horse opera - at the end.
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