A FRONTIER HERO RETURNS * * DAVY CROCKETT 7 P.M. SUNDAY, CHANNEL 4

The Boston Globe | November 19, 1988| | Copyright

Life seemed simple in 1954, particularly to a 7-year-old. America's preeminence in the world was unquestioned. However badly Indians and Mexicans may have been treated, they deserved it -- or so we were led to believe. And children knew nothing, and cared less, about sex.

Into this virginal, naive world burst a quiet man in a coonskin cap, Walt Disney's Davy Crockett, one of the great mythological figures from Hollywood in the '50s. He seemed unique at the time, although baby boomers would later grow up and discover his roots in Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart and the ideology of American ...

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