Boule de Suif
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"Boule de Suif", translated variously as "Dumpling", "Butterball", "Ball of Fat", "Ball of Lard", or "Small Ball", is a short story by the late-19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant, first publ
Cover of an edition of "Boule de Suif"
Stagecoach (1939 film)
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Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne. The screenplay by Dudley Nichols is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 short
Boule de Suif
…In 1935, Kenji Mizoguchi made Maria no Oyuki (Oyuki the Virgin). Of his 1939 film Stagecoach, John Ford said it was "really 'Boule de Suif'" and McBride attributes the "film's sharp social criticism" to its being "more deeply influence[d] by…
Theatrical release poster
Claire Trevor
John Wayne
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