Robert Burks
出生 : 1909-07-04, Chino Hills, California, USA
死亡 : 1968-05-13
略歴
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Robert Burks, A.S.C. (July 4, 1909 – May 11, 1968) was an American cinematographer known for being proficient in virtually every genre and equally at home with black-and-white or color.
Burks began his career as a special effects technician in the late 1930s before becoming a director of photography in the mid-1940s. His first credit in this field was Jammin' the Blues (1944), a short film featuring leading jazz musicians of the day.
Burks collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on twelve of the director's films. Beginning with Strangers on a Train in 1951 (which secured him an Oscar nomination) through Marnie in 1964, he shot every Hitchcock film except Psycho in 1960. Additional credits include The Fountainhead, Beyond the Forest, The Glass Menagerie, The Spirit of St. Louis, The Music Man, and A Patch of Blue.
Burks and his wife died in a house fire in 1968 in Huntington Harbor, California.
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After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in the desert where stolen army gold bullion is buried. He plans to retrieve it, but others are searching for it too.
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A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
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Ex-convict Eddie and his wife, Kristine, attempt to build a new life for themselves and their daughter Kathy in San Francisco, but police officer Mike Vido is determined to send Eddie back to prison.
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求人広告を見てやってきたのは、美貌の女泥棒マーニーだった。正体を知りながら彼女を雇い、やがて結婚するマーク。盗癖のある妻とそれを救おうとする夫の葛藤を巧みに描いた、アルフレッド・ヒッチコックによる心理サスペンス。
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ある日、何の理由もなしに、鳥たちが人間を襲い始めた……。たった一つのシチュエーションをもとにあらゆる恐怖を引き出した、ヒッチコックのサスペンス・ドラマの傑作。
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A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
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Just as San Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is set to get married, her absentee father arrives, disrupting the household of his ex-wife. Is he there to break up the wedding? Or to steal back his ex-wife? Or is Pogo finally ready to be a father after all these years?
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Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
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An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.
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Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary, Ellie Brown, she shocks him with a declaration of love. Inspired, Ward commands playwright MacDonald to rewrite his latest show as a May-December romance starring Brown herself. Ward struggles to make a comeback as his ex-wife, Kathryn, plots to end his new relationship.
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広告会社社長のロジャー・ソーンヒルは多忙で、今も秘書をタクシーに乗せて車内でスケジュールの確認中である。プラザ・ホテルで一人降りたソーンヒルは友人たちの待つラウンジへ向う。酒を飲む前に電報を打つ用事を思い出したソーンヒルはボーイに向って手を挙げるが、その手と”お客様のジョージ・カプラン様”の呼び出しの声が重なった。その様子を見ていた二人組は席を立ったソーンヒルに銃を突きつけ、人知れず車に乗せる。それはNYからラシュモア山までの苦難の道のりの始まりであった。
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An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow.
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サスペンスの巨匠アルフレッド・ヒッチコック監督の最高傑作のひとつ。美女の自殺の裏に隠された巧妙なトリックを、謎めいたロマンスとともに描いたミステリー。 とある悲惨な事件をきっかけに、高所恐怖症となり、警察を退職したジョンのもとに、旧友から情緒不安定な自分の妻マデリンを尾行してほしいとの依頼が入った。断り切れなかったジョンは、その日の夜から尾行を開始。やがてマデリンを愛するようになってしまったジョンの目の前で彼女は身を投げた…。失意に暮れるジョンは、町をさまよううちにマデリンそっくりの女性と出会う。
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大西洋横断飛行に挑戦する資金を集め、１９２７年、ニューヨークの飛行場を単葉機「セントルイス魂号」で飛び立った郵便飛行士チャールズ・Ａ・リンドバーグ。睡魔や悪天候など、さまざまな危機を切り抜け、パリまでの５８１０キロ、３３時間３０分の無着陸単独飛行という史上初の偉業を成し遂げた回想録を、名匠ビリー・ワイルダー監督が映画化。ジェームズ・スチュワートがリンドバーグを演じ、綿密な演出で描いた感動のドラマ。
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保険会社にきたバンドマンを見て、窓口係は驚愕する。以前同社を襲った強盗と瓜二つだったのだ。警察に連行された男は、無実を証明できずに……。誤認逮捕に警鐘を鳴らす傑作サスペンス。
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ヒッチコックが、イギリス時代の自作「暗殺者の家」をリメイク。あるフランス人の死に立ち会ったベンは、断末魔の男の口から某国の首相暗殺計画を知らされる。やがてベンの口を封じるため、彼の息子が誘拐されてしまう。ベンと妻のジョーは、暗殺者がひそむ教会へと乗り込んでいく……。D・デイの歌う“ケ・セラ・セラ”が非常に効果的に使われるサスペンス・スリラーの傑作。
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森の中で発見された男の死体をめぐって繰り広げられるユーモラスなサスペンス。軽妙な演技が光るシャーリー・マクレーンのデビュー作としても知られる、アルフレッド・ヒッチコックによる1955年の作品。
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リビエラで優雅な生活を送っているロビーは元宝石泥棒。悠々自適な暮らしをしていたが、ある日彼の名を騙る泥棒が出没して……。ヒッチコックが贈るオシャレなコミカル・ラヴ・サスペンス。
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カメラマンのジェフは足を骨折し、ニューヨークはグリニッチ・ヴィレッジのアパートで療養中。身動きの取れない彼にとって退屈しのぎの楽しみは、窓から見える中庭と向いのアパートの住人たちを眺める事だけ。だが、その中で、セールスマンの夫と激しい口論をしていた病床の妻の姿が見えなくなった事に気づいた。セールスマンの様子を窺う内に、ジェフはその男が女房を殺したのではないかと推測、恋人のリザと看護人ステラの協力を得て調査を始めるのだが……。
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プロテニスの花形選手だったトニー・ウェンディスは、資産家である妻のマーゴとロンドンのアパートに住んでいる。トニーはテニスのツアーのために自宅を留守にしがちだったので、それが不満だったマーゴとの夫婦仲は冷え込んでいた。夫の留守中にアメリカ人の推理作家マーク・ハリディとの浮気に走ったマーゴは、トニーと別れてマークと一緒になる気持ちに傾いていた。妻の浮気に気づいたトニーは、妻と別れるよりも、妻を殺害して資産を手に入れようと考え、緻密な殺害計画を練り上げる。
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Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.
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Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.
Other
A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
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教会で働くケラーから殺人の懺悔を聞いた神父ローガン。だが、状況証拠から神父自身が犯人にされてしまう。聖職者の彼は懺悔の内容を語ることができず……。戒律に挑戦した異色のサスペンス。
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An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.
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Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
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Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics.
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A journalist's wife insists on adopting an abandoned child.
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A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.
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列車の中でテニス選手のガイに声をかけた、見知らぬ乗客。その男はガイの私生活を熟知しており、交換殺人を提案するが……。映像の魔術に酔わされる、アルフレッド・ヒッチコック監督の傑作スリラー。
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After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
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An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
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Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
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After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the world enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to prove to Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning the conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally?
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An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Special Effects
Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding life.
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Eric Phillips's manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye.
Special Effects
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
Special Effects
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
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Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Special Effects
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
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Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.
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Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve. The motel's guests are only concerned for themselves until a poor man and his wife drive up to the motel, unable to go any further. Out of rooms, Nick's wife prepares a place for them in a shed under a neon star Nick had just finished hanging. Their plight brings out the generosity in everyone, including Nick, who remembers another family almost two thousand years earlier that also found a makeshift room at an inn under another kind of star.
Special Effects
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
Special Effects
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
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Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
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In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session. This highly stylized chronicle features tenor sax legend Lester Young.
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Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
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A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
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After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
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In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
