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Film taking you and I back (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

western

'film' is the definition.
(Western is an example)

'you and i back' is the wordplay.
'you and i' becomes 'we'.
'back' becomes 'stern' (I've seen this before).
'we'+'stern'='WESTERN'

'taking' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for western that I've seen before include "Old film genre, horse opera" , "Cowboy film of occidental origin" , "Spaghetti film?" , "The Occident" , "direction?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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