Free Download Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges"
English | ISBN: 0231207298 | 2023 | 376 pages | PDF | 13 MB
In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948―The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek among them―all from screenplays he alone had written. Cynical and sophisticated, romantic and sexually frank, crazily breakneck and endlessly witty, his movies continue to influence filmmakers and remain popular to this day. Yet despite this acclaim, Sturges's achievements remain underappreciated: he is too often categorized as a dialogue writer and Description engineer more than a director, or belittled as an irresponsible spinner of laughs.
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