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Herzberg Shooting Scripts: From Pulp Western To Film 2005 – Page 84 "Norman A Fox and the Clichés of the West.- At first glance, there seems to be nothing special about the works of Norman A. Fox. He had written ... Yet as far as Hollywood was concerned, in the mid–1950s Norman A. Fox's novels
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Hoffmann "A" Western filmmakers: a biographical dictionary of writers, ... 2000– Page 24 "Norman A. FOX (1911–1960) Norman Arnold Fox was born in 1911, ... Fox's novels attracted Hollywood's attention in the mid-1950s, when four of his novels were made into four western
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