Carl Lerner

出生 : 1912-06-17, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

死亡 : 1973-08-26

略歴

American film editor and film director. Mr. Lerner's editor credits included Klute, The Swimmer, with Burt Lancaster, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Middle of the Night The Fugitive Kind, The Goddess, and 12 Angry Men. He had directed commercial 1 and industrial films and was director and editor of Black Like Me. Mr. Lerner had taught film technique at City College, New York University, the School of Visual Arts, and other institutions, and had written many articles on the subject.

参加作品

The First Circle
Editor
The story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. Based on the book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Crawlspace
Editor
A childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attempt to get him to rejoin society with tragic results.
Klute
Editor
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
The Angel Levine
Editor
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
真夜中のパーティー
Editor
A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate the event. As the evening progresses, the alcohol flows, the knives come out, and Michael's demand that the group participate in a devious telephone game, unleashing dormant and unspoken emotions.
泳ぐひと
Editor
日曜日の午後、高級住宅地に水泳パンツひとつの姿で現れた会社重役ネッド。彼は近隣のプールを順々に泳ぎながら我が家へ帰りつこうとする。だが、彼が出会う人々の態度は次第に奇異なものとなり、ネッド自身も人生への疑問を抱くようになる......。
Revolution
Editor
The San Francisco scene in 1967-68. Documentary about hippies shot during the height of the movement . Viewpoints from many kinds of people. Music by Steve Miller Band, Mother Earth, Quicksilver Messenger Service and others.
Brown Eye, Evil Eye
Editor
The story of the strange friendship between a seventy-year-old man and a six-year-old girl.
A Man Called Adam
Editor
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
Smiles
A short film by John G. Avildsen.
The Confession
Editor
Madame Rinaldi, owner of a bordello, helps thief Mario Forni locate an ancient buried treasure.
Black Like Me
Writer
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
Black Like Me
Director
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
All the Way Home
Supervising Editor
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.
Greenwich Village Story
Consulting Editor
A struggling writer dumps a pregnant dancer for a well-off socialite. Later, he realizes his true feelings and opts to make amends.
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Editor
Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick, schemes to get the ex-boxer into a phony wrestling match to make some quick money. Although he and his loyal trainer, Army, oppose the degrading proposition, the disillusioned Mountain begins to wonder if he has any options left.
No Exit
Editor
The Valet (Manuel Rosón) enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin (Morgan Sterne) in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano (Viveca Lindfors) and Estelle Rigault (Rita Gam), are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realising that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories. Adaptation of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Something Wild
Editor
A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.
蛇皮の服を着た男
Editor
Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
Rosie
Editor
Unsold television sitcom pilot about a talking dog that befriends a boy.
Come Back, Africa
Editor
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
Middle of the Night
Editor
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 60s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.
The Goddess
Editor
Booze, pills and loneliness mark a young actress' rise to stardom.
Uncle Vanya
Editor
A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.
十二人の怒れる男
Editor
既に法廷劇の代名詞となって久しい、アメリカ映画史に輝く傑作ドラマ。元々は高い評価を受けたTV作品で、その脚本・演出コンビによる映画版だが、そのいかにもTV向きの密室劇を上手くスクリーンに転化させた手腕は見事の一言。17歳の少年が起こした殺人事件に関する陪審員の討論が始まったが、誰が見ても有罪と思えたその状況下で、ひとりの陪審員が無罪を主張した事から物語は動き始める……。
On the Bowery
Editor
A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City's skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in bars, talking and arguing, and sleeping on sidewalks, we have the story of Ray.
Patterns
Editor
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon becomes apparent that Walter Ramsey, who has inherited the position of CEO, is grooming Staples to replace Briggs. Ramsey will not fire Briggs, instead doing everything he can to humiliate and sabotage Briggs until he resigns.
A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp
Editor
Filmed amidst the Arensberg collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where 35 works by Marcel Duchamp are gathered, this 1956 NBC interview features the artist talking with James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the Guggenheim Museum. Duchamp describes his transition away from Impressionism toward a Cubist, and then post-Cubist, approach, providing commentary while standing before Nude Descending a Staircase
The Big Break
Editor
Marty is a shipping clerk in the garment district and a wise guy trying to cut corners and get by on angles, and not very good at it. He meets Helen and decides to change his ways, but lack of patience in slow-progress jobs leads him to become involved with a neighborhood gang.
So Young, So Bad
Editor
Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates. Oblivious to the sadistic treatment of the girls by the matrons, it takes a rebellious girl named Loretta to open his eyes. Assisted by a female staff member, Jason finally gets proof of the abuse and threatens the head of the school with exposure unless he is given full rein to run things.
Cry Murder
Editor
A young actress has retired from films to marry the son of a prominent and rich politician in New York City. The father objects strongly to the marriage. The actress is being blackmailed by a second-rate artist who has stolen some letters from her that could be misconstrued. During the payoff, she is knocked unconscious, and awakens to find herself involved in a murder and the police have her marked as the number-one suspect.