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The Glanton gang scalp their way across the border in 1849 and the Judge dances; McCarthy's violent Bible.

Scarlett O Hara from Tara to the burning of Atlanta; a thousand pages and the most popular American novel.

Sethe, a runaway slave, and the ghost of the daughter she killed; Morrison's masterpiece.

A hunter takes a case of drug money and Anton Chigurh follows with a coin; the Coens changed little.

A Texas preacher possessed by a divine-demonic offspring goes looking for God, with a vampire.

Two brothers rob the bank that is foreclosing on their ranch; a modern Texas western.

Leone's three-hour opera of a western, with Henry Fonda as the villain and a harmonica.

Jean Valjean, a loaf of bread and nineteen years; Hugo's Paris from the sewers to the barricades.