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Hearts of the West

Lewis Tater, a young Iowa farm boy with big goals, aspires to be a famous Western novelist like his hero, Zane Grey. He goes home in order to respond to an advertisement for on-campus classes for a writing correspondence course, only to learn that the institution is nothing more than a row of postboxes at a remote Nevada train terminal. Lewis, who is on the run from the con artists who have taken him hostage, comes into several "genuine" cowboys—cowboy actors who are filming a western movie in the desert. Instead of being a writer, the would-be screenwriter finds himself acting in Westerns for the dilapidated Tumbleweed Productions studio in Depression-era Hollywood.

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