The 1971 western that celebrated male intimacy
The counterculture western Zachariah took aim at the genre's macho, emotionless legacy with its celebration of peace, love and male friendship, writes Sean McGeady.
The boys' embrace at the end of Zachariah, then, is an earnest rebuttal of the toxic, violent masculine mores on which the western genre was built. But it wasn't written that way. "We were part of th… [+3008 chars]
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