The John Ford Movie Mystery

The John Ford Movie Mystery
ISBN-10
0253331676
ISBN-13
9780253331670
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
1975
Publisher
Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Author
Andrew Sarris

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His sequences fell into place with neither Ford's spirituality nor Hathaway's physicality , but they did at least fall into place , as befitted the director of that version of Destry Rides Again with James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich ...

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