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David Trotter: Preston Sturges, 13 April 2023
Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges
by Stuart Klawans.
Columbia, 366 pp., £22, January,978 0 231 20729 4 Show More
by Stuart Klawans.
Columbia, 366 pp., £22, January,
“... fact, since we’ve long been able to draw on two hefty volumes of screenplays superbly edited by Brian Henderson. What I have described as idiosyncrasies, Klawans would probably regard as complications intended to reinvigorate well-worn comic formulae. He doesn’t by any means underestimate the strength of the contempt for ‘simple-minded ... ”