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Feb 10, 2021 · The News of the World is set in Reconstruction-era Texas, in 1870, five years after the Civil War ended. The state was slow to receive the news about the emancipation of the slaves, and the...
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Feb 10, 2021 · Theoretically, Hanks' character would've spent the 1870s spreading the "good news" across Texas and inspiring people with his stories. By the early 1880s, Johanna would've likely ventured off as a grown adult to capitalize upon professional opportunities that didn't exist just after the Civil War.
Feb 1, 2021 · News of the World is a Tom Hanks western (which hit theaters in December 2020 and became available on video on demand in January 2021) about a former Civil War captain, Captain Kidd, who travels...
Dec 22, 2020 · But imagine delivering the news to people in the 1870s, riding around on horseback across the great frontier. That’s part of the story in the new Tom Hanks film, “News of the World.”
- Heather Brooker
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Dec 25, 2020 · News of the World picks up in 1870, five years after the end of the American Civil War, and it's clear from the reactions Kidd gets as he travels around that the Reconstruction era has not been...
Dec 24, 2020 · The star can’t help but bring decency to Paul Greengrass’s lean, efficient western set in 1870s Texas. Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel in “News of the World.”. Universal Pictures.
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Feb 1, 2021 · Based on the 2016 novel by Paulette Jiles, News of The World is set in Texas in 1870, five years after the American Civil War ended, Hanks stars as Captain Jefferson Kidd, a former Confederate soldier who now makes a living travelling from town to town, reading stories from newspapers to isolated, news-starved crowds that pay a dime a head for ...