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Sep 2019
48m 46s

James Caan: Last of the Tough-Guy Movie ...

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At the end of the 1950s, James Caan, son of a German-Jewish butcher, had been kicked out of ROTC and was too poor to finish college on his own. He started a job for his godfather unpacking meat along the docks of the Hudson River. Less than a decade late 
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