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Assesses Peckinpah's stature as a major artist and details the unbelievably shoddy treatment afforded his films by hostile producers and studio hit men
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An authoritative source on Railroad Folksong. This book provides a discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the... Læs mere
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