He was one of the pros. The six-foot-seven gentle giant directed movie stars by letting them do what they did best, while he created seamless entertainments. That’s the old-school way. The way Andrew V. McLaglen learned, watching his father, Victor, going through the trenches for John Ford.  Andrew’s death last August, at the age of 94, severed one of the last great connections to the Hollywood of Ford, William Wellman and Budd Boetticher, all of whom he worked for as an assistant, befo


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