The John Ford Movie Mystery
- ISBN-10
- 0253285151
- ISBN-13
- 9780253285157
- Category
- Performing Arts / General
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1976
- Publisher
- Secker and Warburg [for] the British Film Institute
- Author
- Andrew Sarris
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