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23 FILMS OF SAMUEL FULLER (1912 - 1997) by milam_ogden • Created 8 years ago • Modified 8 years ago. God was sad on this date in 1997 when Sam Fuller passed away in Hollywood, CA. He was not only a director but also a writer. Got his start in European Battle Theater during WW II.
Samuel Michael "Sam" Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) [1] was an American film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, actor, and World War II veteran known for directing low-budget genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system.
YearTitleDirectorWriter1936NoYes1937NoYes1938NoYes1938NoYesHis masterpiece was Pickup on South Street (1953) for 20th Century Fox, but at the end of the 1950s, he regained his independence from the production company and filmed many other movies of note, including the controversial White Dog (1982).
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- The Steel Helmet (1951) “All war stories are told by survivors.” After directing two westerns for producer Carl Hittleman, I Shot Jesse James (1949) and The Baron of Arizona (1950), Fuller self-produced The Steel Helmet, a Korean war story reportedly written in one week and shot in 10 days on a $100,000 budget that would propel him to b-movie success and remains among the most loved and most influential of Fuller’s filmography.
- Park Row (1952) Dedicated to American Journalism Fuller’s personal favorite of his many films turns to his first love and first life in the underdog drama of New York’s historical Park Row newspaper district.
- Underworld, USA (1961) A pulp revenge thriller admirable for its single minded simplicity Underworld, USA is a film of pure blistering hatred as Tolly Devlin (Cliff Robertson) – 14 year old witness to the murder of his father by four mafiosos – devotes his life to tracking them down and one by one bringing them to justice, either by law or by his own hand.
- Pickup on South Street (1953) Pickup on South Street marks Fuller’s own part of the red scare as a cold war thriller that pits the New York City underworld against the work of communist spies.
12 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Pickup on South Street. 1953 1h 20m Approved. 7.6 (16K) Rate. A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring. Director Samuel Fuller Stars Richard Widmark Jean Peters Thelma Ritter.
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