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François Truffaut explains how his views on John Ford changed over time: "Originally, I didn’t like Ford—because of his material: for example, the comic secondary characters, the brutality, the male-female relation- ships typified by the man’s slapping the woman on the backside. But eventually I came to understand that...

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