These notes accompany screenings of Budd Boetticher’s </em>The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond</a> on May 29 and 30 in Theater 1.</p>
Oscar “Budd” Boetticher (1916–2001) is one of those directors who would likely have been all but ignored by film historians—if Andrew Sarris had not succeeded in making auteur theory prominent.

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May 28, 2013
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An Auteurist History of Film
Budd Boetticher’s The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
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