Brisk and insightful ... That these and the other half-dozen movies that Nashawaty surveys have enjoyed such a long afterlife means much of this history has been previously told ... Even so, Nashawaty supplements this wealth of extant material with his own reporting ... It would be appropriate, in a book about films whose audiences identify with them in a deep and lasting way, for the author to indulge in a little autobiography. Nashawaty’s book is a bit poorer for that elision.
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