William A. Horning

出生 : 1904-11-09,

死亡 : 1959-03-02

参加作品

ベン・ハー
Art Direction
ユダヤの豪族の息子、ベン・ハーの数奇な運命を通してローマの圧政とキリストの最期を6年半の製作期間と54億円の巨費を投じて描いた一大スペクタクル。些細な出来事から旧友メッサラの裏切りにあい、奴隷船送りとなったベン・ハーはそこで命を救ったローマの将軍の養子となる。束の間の安住の後再び故郷へ戻った彼は、別れた家族が獄中死したと聞かされ戦車競技に出場する事を決意する。そこではメッサラとの宿命の対決が待っていた。
Ask Any Girl
Art Direction
Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn Station, being kicked out by her roommate, and changing bosses because her boss made a pass at her, she finds herself looking for work at a Manhattan motivational research agency run by punctilious Miles Doughton and his playboy brother, Evan.
北北西に進路を取れ
Art Direction
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。
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Art Direction
Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York City only to find it deserted. Making a life for himself there, he is flabbergasted to eventually find Sarah Crandall, who also managed to survive. Together, they form a close friendship until the arrival of Benson Thacker who has managed to pilot his small boat into the city's harbor. At this point, tensions rise between the three, particularly between Thacker, who is white, and Burton, who is black.
The Mating Game
Art Direction
Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn't easy to calculate when the farmer has such a lovely daughter.
Count Your Blessings
Art Direction
Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on her and lives away from his family out of professional obligation to his government, Grace ends up raising the couple's son, Sigismond, on her own. Grace and Charles are finally reunited after nearly a decade apart, and, while they seem headed for a permanent split, there's still a spark between them.
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.
Some Came Running
Art Direction
Hard-drinking novelist Dave Hirsh returns home after being gone for years. His brother wants Dave to settle down and introduces him to English teacher Gwen French. Moody Dave resents his brother and spends his days hanging out with Bama Dillert, a professional gambler who parties late into the night. Torn between the admiring Gwen and Ginny Moorehead, an easy woman who loves him, Dave grows increasingly angry.
Andy Hardy Comes Home
Art Direction
Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.
The Tunnel of Love
Art Direction
The Pooles are unable to have a baby after years of trying. They apply to the Rock-A-Bye Adoption Agency, and are assigned Miss Novick as an investigator. Through a farfetched mis-communication she gets a very bad impression of Augie Poole and indicates her report will be unfavorable. Through even more far-fetched circumstances, Augie is able to change Miss Novick's mind, and later comes to believe the baby she is carrying is his. Rock-A-Bye does find the Pooles a baby, and Augie is convinced it is Miss Novick's, and that he is the real father...so much so that his wife comes to believe it, too. She threatens to leave him, but all the misunderstandings are finally cleared up for a happy ending.
Party Girl
Art Direction
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
Torpedo Run
Art Direction
A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.
The Badlanders
Art Direction
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, the Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from the people of a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once the Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme.
熱いトタン屋根の猫
Art Direction
ミシシッピー州の大農園の邸宅に、当主ビッグ・ダディが病院での検査を終えて帰ってくる。ビッグ・ダディはガンで余命わずかと診断されていたが、本人はそのことを知らない。莫大な遺産を狙う長男一家が父を異常なほどに歓待する一方、次男ブリックと美しい妻マギーの間には冷え切った空気が漂う。しかしビッグ・ダディは昔から、長男一家より次男夫婦の方を気に入っていた。酒に溺れ妻の愛も父の遺産も受け取ることを拒否するブリックにいら立ちを募らせたマギーは、ついにブリックの亡き親友スキッパーの名前を口にしてしまう。
High School Confidential!
Art Direction
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a naive view of drugs, nihilistic beat poetry, and some incredible '50s slang.
The High Cost of Loving
Art Direction
Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he doesn't receive an invitation to an important luncheon being held by the new company president. Convinced that he's about to lose his job, Jim begins to mull over his limited prospects when his wife confirms that she's pregnant.
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.
The Sheepman
Art Direction
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
Handle with Care
Art Direction
A law student working on a class project discovers a real-life crime.
Saddle the Wind
Art Direction
Steve Sinclair is a world a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the scene with his new bride Joan Blake.
Raintree County
Art Direction
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Don't Go Near the Water
Art Direction
Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II.
Jailhouse Rock
Art Direction
After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.
Until They Sail
Art Direction
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
Les Girls
Art Direction
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.
House of Numbers
Art Direction
Story of twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison.
Gun Glory
Art Direction
An ex-gunslinger (Stewart Granger) shunned by townsfolk is the only one who knows how to stop a ruthless cattleman.
The Seventh Sin
Art Direction
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to China (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a public divorce. She persuades him to reconsider and he proposes an alternative. If Paul's wife will agree to a divorce and he marries Carol within one week Walter will obtain a quiet divorce. Carol presents Walter's 'deal' to Paul, who regretfully declines, citing respect for his wife.Carol sees as her only choice to accompany Walter to the village, where she meets booze-soaked Tim. He soon introduces her to nuns at the local hospital-convent and Carol begins to re-evaluate her self-absorbed life and character. Working at the convent, Carol learns she is pregnant. She tells Walter she's unsure who is the father and he regrets her honesty. Shortly after, Walter contracts cholera and dies. Carol returns to Hong Kong and an uncertain future.
Silk Stockings
Art Direction
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out condemning the decadent West, but gradually falls under its spell—with the help of an American movie producer. A remake of Ninotchka (1939).
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.
This Could Be the Night
Art Direction
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
Something of Value
Art Direction
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Art Direction
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.
The Wings of Eagles
Art Direction
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
The Great American Pastime
Art Direction
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the Panthers, a little league baseball team. The fact that an attractive widow has her son in the team causes problems with his wife.
Tea and Sympathy
Art Direction
Tom Lee is more interested in the arts than in sports, something that sits uneasily with both his father and his classmates. Tom's school housemaster Bill Reynolds even gives him a hard time for his "effeminate" interests. However, Bill's wife Laura sympathizes with Tom and tries to help him with her own overtures.
クォ・ヴァディス
Art Direction
シェンキウィッチの歴史小説を壮大なスケールで映像化した、50年代を代表するスペクタクル史劇。暴君ネロの時代、ローマ軍の大隊長マーカスは美しきクリスチャンの娘リジアに恋をする。だが二人の心はすれ違って……。
オズの魔法使
Production Design
カンザスの農場でおじさん夫婦と一緒に暮らす少女ドロシーは、ある日、竜巻に家ごと上空に巻き上げられ、愛犬のトトとともに魔法の国オズへとたどり着く。故郷の家に戻るためにはオズの魔法使いの力を借りる必要があると言われたドロシーは、早速魔法使いの住むエメラルド・シティを目指して旅に出る。その途中、臆病ライオンや脳のないカカシ、そして心を持たないブリキ男も仲間に加わり、一行は不思議な冒険を繰り広げていく。
Marie Antoinette
Art Direction
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
征服
Art Direction
A polish countess dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to make Poland independent.
Libeled Lady
Co-Art Director
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Fury
Assistant Art Director
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Ah, Wilderness!
Art Department Manager
At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise father. A tender, coming-of-age story, with a wonderful look at a long-gone, but fondly remembered, small town America.
Whipsaw
Assistant Art Director
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivian can lead him to the jewels, comes to her aid when she is chased by a rival gang. The two flee to the Midwest with both gangs in pursuit, but Vivian is not as gullible as Ross thinks.
Mad Love
Art Direction
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Times Square Lady
Assistant Art Director
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control.