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1. Cattlemen versus farmers.
Jack Schaefer. Published 1949.
Seven
Shenandoah
Shane
Shalom for the Heart
2. An attempted military coup d'etat in the USA.
Fletcher Knebel/Charles W. Bailey II. Published 1962.
Seven Samurai
Seven Days In May
The Sobbin' Women
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
3. Quiet Bovidae.
Thomas Harris. Published 1988.
Silent Running
Silent Night
The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Girls
4. Flashing katanas all over the shop.
Seven Samurai
Seventy-Seven Sunset Strip
Sergeant York
Sabrina
5. The bombing of Dresden.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Published 1969.
Sansho the Bailiff
Sense and Sensibility
Slaughterhouse-Five
Stuart Little
6. Two men on an epic quest to find an abducted girl.
Alan Le May. Published 1954. 'The Shootist' Glendon Swarthout. Published 1975. 'The Shiralee' D'Arcy Niland. Published 1955. 'Sayonara' James Michener. Published 1954.
The Shootist
The Searchers
The Shiralee
Sayonara
7. A USMC soldier in the Vietnam War.
Gustav Hasford. Published 1979. A character, ol' Hasford. A decorated marine in the Vietnam War and a thief of hundreds of library books from all over the USA and other countries. For his military service, he should have been just told "Don't do it again!" and sent on his way. 'The Short-Timers' was filmed as 'Full Metal Jacket' in 1987 by Stanley Chewsbricks.