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His 1948 psychological Western Blood on The Moon, starring Robert Mitchum, and the acclaimed boxing drama The Set-Up (1949) were the only two important pictures that Wise got to do during his last four years at the studio. Wise left RKO at the end of the 1940s and went to 20th Century Fox, where his most important film, among a string of ...
An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe
Robert Wise - Film Director, Editor, Producer: Although he had never directed a musical, Wise began the 1960s by entering into the unusual relationship of codirecting West Side Story (1961) with Jerome Robbins, who had directed and choreographed the long-running Broadway hit on which the film was based. The resulting film was a tremendous critical as well as commercial success—Wise’s ...
Sep 15, 2005 · Robert Wise, who won four Oscars as producer and director of the classic 1960s musicals “West Side Story” and “The Sound of Music,” has died. He was 91.Wise died Wednesday of heart failure ...
May 23, 2023 · 9 'Blood on the Moon' (1948) Image via RKO Radio Pictures. A classic old-school Western starring the great Robert Mitchum, Blood on the Moon is a solid early-career effort from Robert Wise. Its ...
Apr 28, 2020 · Robert Earl Wise. b. 10 September, 1914, Winchester, Indiana, USA. d. 14 September, 2005, Westwood, Los Angeles, USA. [Robert] Wise is varied. He seems able to do almost anything …. – Arthur Knight. 1. In his influential work of auteurist criticism, The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968, first published in 1968, American ...
Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director. He won Academy Awards as Best Director for The Sound of Music (1965) and West Side Story (1961) as well as nominations as Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and Best Picture for The Sand Pebbles (1966).
