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Preface
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1988
King Vidor, American
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Preface King Vidor's The Big Parade, The Crowd, and Hallelujah have traditionally loomed large in histories of film art; his Our Daily Bread and The Fountainhead in histories of film politics; his Duel in the Sun in histories of film commerce. Many moviegoers find less-celebrated Vidor films among their most vivid memories-from The Champ to Ruby Gentry. Perhaps we may be forgiven for thinking that a full-length study of Vidor's work is astonishingly overdue-a situation for which we are not
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