E. Preston Ames

参加作品

スペースキャット
Art Direction
A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to reclaim and repair his ship and get back home.
A Family Upside Down
Art Direction
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
Damnation Alley
Production Design
Following World War III, four survivors at an desert military installation attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland of America to Albany, where they hope more survivors are living, using a specially built vehicles to protect themselves against the freakish weather, mutated plant and animal life, and other dangers encountered along the way.
Rooster Cogburn
Art Direction
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Minister Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Art Direction
A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
Babe
Art Direction
This is the life story of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century, from her early Texas tomboy days to her Gold Medal triumphs at the 1932 Olympics, her remarkable career as a champion golfer, her fulfilling marriage to wrestler George Zaharias, and the final battle with the only thing tougher than she was.
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Art Direction
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
大地震
Art Direction
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
The Don Is Dead
Art Direction
After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.
Lost Horizon
Production Design
While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.
Pretty Maids All in a Row
Art Direction
At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile, a married teacher hides his flings with nubile students, and an awkward male is frustrated by the plethora of uninhibited freewheeling young girls.
Brewster McCloud
Art Direction
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans.
The Strawberry Statement
Art Direction
A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals.
大空港
Art Direction
ローマ行きの旅客機内に、爆弾が持ち込まれているという通報が入った。機長と主任スチュワーデスは、爆弾の入ったアタッシュ・ケースを確保しようとするが、犯人は爆弾もろとも自殺してしまう。そしてその衝撃で、旅客機の胴体に亀裂が入り、空中分解の危機が訪れる。急遽、旅客機はケネディ空港へ向けて転回するが、空港は猛吹雪のため一切の機能を停止していた……。
Live a Little, Love a Little
Art Direction
Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.
Quick, Before It Melts
Art Direction
A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine.
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Art Direction
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
It Happened at the World's Fair
Art Direction
Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse.
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Art Direction
The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
All Fall Down
Art Direction
Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry. When Berry-Berry begins yet another meaningless love affair, this time with an older woman named Echo O’Brien, he really gets his parents at each others’ throats.
The Honeymoon Machine
Art Direction
Lieutenant Fergie Howard, Ensign Beau Gilliam and navy scientist Jason Elderidge use their ships computer, designed to calculate missile trajectories, to calculate a roulette ball's trajectory and hit the Venice Casino. Things get complex when Admiral Fitch arrives at the same Casino.
Wild in the Country
Art Direction
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.
Where the Boys Are
Art Direction
Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On the drive down, they admit their real purpose is to go where the boys are.
Bells Are Ringing
Art Direction
Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse.
肉体の遺産
Art Direction
Captain Wade Hunnicutt is the wealthiest and most powerful citizen in his Texan town; he is also a notorious womanizer, which has turned his wife Hannah against him. She has brought up their son Theron to be dependent upon her; but as he reaches adulthood, Hunnicutt insists on taking over his upbringing, initiating him in hunting and other masculine pursuits, under the watchful eye of Rafe, Hunnicutt's loyal employee. But Theron's new lifestyle leads him into a love-affair with a local girl, and thence to his learning things about his parents that were previously hidden from him.
Green Mansions
Art Direction
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.
Gigi
Art Direction
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
Designing Woman
Art Direction
A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
炎の人ゴッホ
Art Direction
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.
These Wilder Years
Art Direction
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
Kismet
Art Direction
A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.
The Cobweb
Art Direction
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.
Brigadoon
Art Direction
Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100 years later. Tommy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Fiona, and is torn between staying or going back to his hectic life in New York.
バンド・ワゴン
Art Direction
フレッド・アステア、シド・チャリシー主演のミュージカル映画。かつてダンス映画で名声を得た俳優トニー。その彼も今や俳優生命に陰りが見え始めていた。そんな時、旧友のマートン夫妻が、彼のために書き下ろしたミュージカル・コメディ「バンド・ワゴン」の舞台化案を持ち掛けてくる。トニーは初め戸惑うも、その企画へ参加することに。さらにそこへ、ジェフリーという男も協力者としてやって来る。彼は作品の近代的な音楽劇化を提案。その突飛な発想で、トニーの共演者に新進バレリーナのガブリエルを抜擢した。こうして彼らは、ジェフリーのアイデアに不安を抱きながら初演を迎える。
The Story of Three Loves
Art Direction
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
The Wild North
Art Direction
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
巴里のアメリカ人
Art Direction
パリで画家修業を続けるジェリーが、歌手のアンリと友情を結ぶ。やがてジェリーは、リズという美しい娘と出会い、恋に落ちてしまう。しかし、リズがアンリの婚約者であると知ったジェリーは、いさぎよくリズのことをあきらめるが……。モダン・バレエによるミュージカル劇。
Two Weeks with Love
Art Direction
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.
Crisis
Art Direction
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.
The Outriders
Art Direction
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them starts to have misgivings....
The Doctor and the Girl
Art Direction
Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.
That Midnight Kiss
Art Direction
Opera singer Prudence Budell, overhears truck driver Johnny Donnetti singing opera, and persuades her opera company to give him a chance in her new opera. They fall in love, but on meeting his colleague Mary while visiting Johnny's work, Prudence becomes convinced Johnny is in love with her.
Big City
Art Direction
A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.
Three Daring Daughters
Art Direction
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
湖中の女
Art Direction
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up
She Went to the Races
Art Direction
A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.
The Hidden Eye
Art Direction
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
Blonde Fever
Art Direction
Peter (Philip Dorn) and Delilah (Mary Astor) are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultry Sally (Gloria Grahame), a waitress who catches Peter's wandering eye. Delilah strikes back by hiring Sally's boyfriend (Marshall Thompson) as a waiter. Sally is initially dismissive of Peter's advances, but when he wins $40,000 in a lottery, she quickly pounces, turning on the charm and eyeing the easy life.
Woman of the Year
Art Direction
The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.