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King Vidor literally grew up with the movies and helped shape its history. He co-founded the Directors Guild and became its first president. His legacy as a great storyteller and fighter for directors' rights continues today. BY DAVID THOMSON. "King Vidor" — the name sounds like a character from a movie, a match for Darth Vader perhaps.
War and Peace (1956 film) War and Peace. (1956 film) War and Peace ( Italian: Guerra e pace) is a 1956 epic historical drama film based on Leo Tolstoy 's 1869 novel of the same name. It is directed and co-written by King Vidor and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti for Paramount Pictures.
By Raymond Durgnat in the July-August 1973 Issue. King Vidor, Raymond Durgnat tells us, "contained multitudes." In a forty-year career that paralleled the growth of American cinema from a charmed adolescence to a tenacious, if tenuous independence, Vidor directed almost every kind of film (comedy, western, war movie, weepie, message film).
The Fountainhead is a 1949 American black-and-white drama film produced by Henry Blanke, directed by King Vidor, and starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Robert Douglas and Kent Smith. The film is based on the bestselling 1943 novel of the same name by Ayn Rand, who also wrote the adaptation. Although Rand's screenplay was used ...
King Wallis Vidor was born in Galveston, Texas, the son of a prosperous lumber merchant of Hungarian descent. Movie crazy from boyhood - his first job was as a ticket-taker and projectionist at Galveston's only nickelodeon - he bought a camera at age 18 and starting shooting local events to sell to regional newsreels.
Feb 23, 2010 · The greatness of The Big Parade lies in its manic romanticism, its total commitment to absurd peasant girls and doughboys, to individual happiness above all other values. As Vidor once said, “War has always been a very human thing.”. He reduces war to its human level, to the trivialities that constitute life, to cigarettes and chewing gum.
Jun 15, 2010 · King Vidor’s. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 1929. USA. Directed by King Vidor. These notes accompany screenings of King Vidor’s Hallelujah, June 16, 17, and 18 in Theater 2. 1894 was a uniquely auspicious year for the movies. Not only is that when film history as we have come to know it began, but three of the medium’s greatest directors were ...
