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Compiled by Martha Ross, mross@bayareanewsgroup.com, San Jose Mercury News: Movies
Tue, 08/30/2016 - 5:00am

Mel Brooks thought Gene Wilder was too young and too New York to play a worn-out gunslinger but he had no choice after Dan Dailey, John Wayne, Johnny Carson and Gig Young didn't work out.

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