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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

film by Boetticher [1960]
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  • Budd Boetticher
    / Late work

    …continued with the crime classic The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960), which starred Ray Danton as the New York mobster. The director then began working on a documentary about Arruza’s life as a matador. As Boetticher related in his memoir, When in Disgrace (1989), financial and other problems…

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    …continued with the crime classic The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960), which starred Ray Danton as the New York mobster. The director then began working on a documentary about Arruza’s life as a matador. As Boetticher related in his memoir, When in Disgrace (1989), financial and other problems…

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