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James Gammon's latest project is a western called Appaloosa, which made its U.S. premiere yesterday. Appaloosa is the story of two buddies, Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortenson), who are hired by a town in New Mexico Territory to crack down on the activities of a sinister rancher (Jeremy Irons) and his band of outlaws. The men find themselves in danger when one of them is seduced to a young widow (Renee Zellweger). One critic called the film a Western "for those who love Westerns."

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James Gammon is playing a character named Earl May, one of the desperate local business owners who bring Cole and Hitch to town.

Just as an aside, while looking for a picture of Mr. Gammon in character, I found some picture of him as quite a young man acting in another Western! The resolution is crummy, but here he is at age 27 in screencaps from a 1967 epsiode of The Virginian:

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Bethany
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