Samuel Fuller

Samuel Fuller

Nascimento : 1912-08-12, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Morte : 1997-10-30

História

Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American screenwriter, novelist and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes. He was born Samuel Michael Fuller in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Benjamin Rabinovitch, a Jewish immigrant  from Russia, and Rebecca Baum, a Jewish immigrant from Poland. After immigrating to America, the family's surname was changed from Rabinovitch to "Fuller" possibly by inspiration of a Doctor who arrived in America on the Mayflower.  At the age of 12, he began working in journalism  as a newspaper  copyboy. He became a crime reporter  in New York City at age 17, working for the New York Evening Graphic. He broke the story of Jeanne Eagels' death.  He wrote pulp novels and screenplays  from the mid-1930s onwards. Fuller also became a screenplay  ghostwriter  but would never tell interviewers which screenplays that he ghost-wrote explaining "that's what a ghost writer is for". During World War II, Fuller joined the United States Army infantry. He was assigned to the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, and saw heavy fighting. He was involved in landings in Africa, Sicily, and Normandy  and also saw action in Belgium and Czechoslovakia. In 1945 he was present at the liberation of the German concentration camp at Falkenau  and shot 16 mm footage which was used later in the documentary Falkenau: The Impossible. For his service, he was awarded the Bronze Star, the Silver Star, and the Purple Heart.  Fuller used his wartime experiences as material in his films, especially in The Big Red One (1980), a nickname of the 1st Infantry Division. After his controversial film "White Dog" was shelved by Paramount pictures, Fuller moved to France, and never directed another American film. Fuller eventually returned to America. He died of natural causes in his California home. In November 1997, the Directors Guild held a three hour memorial in his honor, hosted by Curtis Hanson, his long time friend and co-writer on White Dog. He was survived by his wife Christa and daughter Samantha.

Perfil

Samuel Fuller

Filmes

A Fuller Life
Book
Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child, Samantha.
A Fuller Life
Self
Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child, Samantha.
Scene Missing
Self
The unfinished documentary about the making of Dennis Hopper's mostly unseen feature film The Last Movie (1971).
Nuits transparentes
Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).
Sodankylä Forever
Self
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.
Carmel
Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.
Filmmakers in Action
Self (archive footage)
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)
Edge of Outside
Self (archive footage)
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and film clips are blended together to form a chronological approach to the subject matter.
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
War Correspondent (uncredited)
A re-working, re-editing, and restructuring of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One bringing it closer as originally envisioned by the late filmmaker. It includes forty-seven additional minutes which was not utilized in the film's original release. Supervised by Richard Schickel, Peter Bogdanovich, and editor Bryan McKenzie.
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
Writer
A re-working, re-editing, and restructuring of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One bringing it closer as originally envisioned by the late filmmaker. It includes forty-seven additional minutes which was not utilized in the film's original release. Supervised by Richard Schickel, Peter Bogdanovich, and editor Bryan McKenzie.
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
Director
A re-working, re-editing, and restructuring of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One bringing it closer as originally envisioned by the late filmmaker. It includes forty-seven additional minutes which was not utilized in the film's original release. Supervised by Richard Schickel, Peter Bogdanovich, and editor Bryan McKenzie.
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'
Himself (archive footage)
Documentary about the efforts to reconstruct Sam Fuller's The Big Red One closer to the film Fuller had originally envisioned.
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Self
Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.
O Fim da Violência
Louis
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican gardener's family for a while. At the same time, surveillance expert Ray Bering is looking for what happens in the city, but it is not clear what he wants. The police investigation for Max's disappearance is led by detective Doc Block, who falls in love with actress Cat who is playing in ongoing Max's production.
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
Self
In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera. The first segment covers Fuller's past as a newsman where he began as a copy boy and ended as a reporter. Part two describes Fuller's experiences in World War II, in which he participated as a soldier. The last section focuses on Fuller as director. Tim Robbins interviews Samuel Fuller revealing the director's own memories and impressions. Beside the interview, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino accompany the documentary with their comments.
Alguém Para Amar
Sam Silverman
Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in love with Mercedes, but he doesn't dance or have money.
Girls in Prison
Writer
Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by other "lifer" inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does.
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
Self
In 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where 40 years before, Zanuck had sent Fuller to scout a location and write a script for a movie based on a tigrero, a jaguar hunter. Sam hopes to find people who remember him, and he takes film he shot in 1954. He's Rip Van Winkle, and, indeed, a great deal changed in the village. There are televisions, watches, and brick houses. But, the same Karajá culture awaits as well. He gathers the villagers to show his old film footage, and people recognize friends and relatives, thanking Fuller for momentarily bringing them back to life.
Anything for John
Self
An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for studying and depicting the human character. In-depth, candid interviews with his wife and muse Gena Rowlands as well as his most trusted friends and co-workers like Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, etc. Clips from Cassavetes' greatest films, and many rare photos illustrate this touching documentary.
Golem: The Petrified Garden
Sam
Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in Birobidjan, the autonomous Jewish zone in Russia, leaving him a valuable art collection and the hand of a huge sculpture of a Golem. The uncle's will instructs Danny to find the rest of the statue, so Danny, who speaks no Russian, embarks on a trip that takes him (and the Golem's hand) to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Siberia, fumbling with hotel clerks, taxi drivers, and bureaucrats, following leads, and making discoveries about myth, story telling, art, and hope.
Golem, l'esprit de l'exil
Elimelek
An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced into exile after the death of their husbands. It is set in 1990s Paris, where the director was living in self-imposed exile following the ban on his 1982 documentary in Israel. The recurring theme of the film is migrations and unrooting, like the legendary Golem.
La Vie de Bohème
Gassot
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Shock Corridor
himself
Short 35mm experimental film featuring Sam Fuller.
The Madonna and the Dragon
Screenplay
Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.
The Madonna and the Dragon
Chef de bureau Newsweek
Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.
The Madonna and the Dragon
Director
Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Self
Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best overall critique of his work that I have encountered anywhere. Paul Joyce, who directed it, has also made documentaries about Nicolas Roeg, David Cronenberg, Nagisa Oshima, and Dennis Hopper, and he knows the conventional format well enough to get the most out of it. There are good clips and interesting commentaries from the interviewed subjects, who include Wenders himself, cinematographer Robby Muller, filmmaker Sam Fuller, novelist Patricia Highsmith, musician Ry Cooder, actors Harry Dean Stanton, Peter Falk, and Hanns Zischler, and critic Kraft Wetzel, who is especially provocative. A must-see for Wenders fans, highly recommended for everyone else. –Jonathan Rosenbaum, 1989
Sons
Father
A comedy drama that played the festival circuit before vanishing without trace. Forsythe, Sweeney and Miranda are the trio of stepbrothers accompanying paralysed father Fuller on a jaunt to Normandy, where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war. Jennifer Beals, a regular in husband Rockwell's movies, plays a transvestite.
Uma Rua Sem Volta
Dialogue
A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him.
Uma Rua Sem Volta
Screenplay
A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him.
Uma Rua Sem Volta
Police Commissioner
A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him.
Uma Rua Sem Volta
Director
A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him.
Tell me Sam - Encounters with Sam Fuller
Himself
Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire
Le capitaine américain
Falkenau, the Impossible
Samuel Fuller
Documentary stems from 1945, when infantryman Sam Fuller, member of the U.S. Army's "Big Red One," helped liberate the Nazis' Falkenau death camp. Fuller shot footage of his commanding officer's marching Czech locals, who denied knowing of the genocide, out from town to view the horrors of the death house. 40 years later, French documentary filmmaker Emil Weiss brought Fuller, who became a famous film director after World War II, back to the death camp to tell the story of the camp's liberation. Fuller's original footage is incorporated in the film.
Helsinki Napoli - All Night Long
Boss
Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with a briefcase full of money, but unfortunately for Alex's money stolen and a group of gangsters are at the nape of the two. Soon it comes to shooting, and when the two men being killed, is good advice costly for the beleaguered driver. "Helsinki Napoli All Night Long" is Mika Kaurismäki's first major European production. The film features a host of famous names in the cast: The legendary film director Samuel Fuller (The Big Red One), actor Eddie Constantine (Alphaville, Europe), cult directors Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas) and Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man).
Os Vampiros de Salem, o Retorno
Van Meer
Joe Weber é um antropólogo que leva seu filho em uma viagem para a cidade de Salem's Lot, na Nova Inglaterra, sem saber que é povoada por vampiros. Quando os habitantes revelam seu segredo, pedem a Joe que escreva uma bíblia para eles.
The Bleeding Heart
An Englishman arrives in a remote French town near the coast to collect his broken-down car. What he sees there will change his life forever.
Midnight Sun Film Festival
The greatest film festival (anti)promotional short ever made which explains why Midnight Sun is a unique event for both film buffs in Finland and some of the stellar international talents who attend it and also appear in this hilarious guide to a very Finnish way of showing films.
Resgate Infernal
Story
Quando Harry é seqüestrado por terrorristas sul-americanos e o governo americano decide lavar as mãos, sua família contrata os serviços de um mercenário para resgatá-lo.
Hooray For Holyrood
Himself
Scottish Television's film on the 40th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1986, starring Robbie Coltrane (a former EIFF chauffeur) and featuring interviews with Bill Forsyth, Samuel Fuller and Barry Norman, among many others.
A Travelling is a Moral Affair
Himself
Report from Hollywood
“It may be worse than Portugal,” observes cinematographer Henri Alekan about a Los Angeles film lab while on the set of Wim Wenders’ The State of Things (1984). A legendary production and a transitional work for the New German Cinema director as his work became increasingly international, Wenders set out to make a film about filmmaking as funding stalled on the American production of Hammett. The State of Things deals with American and European sensibilities about cinema, and he enlisted Lachman to film and document the film being made in Los Angeles. Made for German television, completed in 1985 and unseen outside of Germany, Lachman’s portrait of Wenders at work features striking filmmaking and location photography of Los Angeles in the 1980s, and serves as a candid glimpse into European encounters with American culture at the time.
Ladrões do Amanhecer
Zoltan
A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.
Ladrões do Amanhecer
Writer
A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.
Ladrões do Amanhecer
Director
A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.
Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
Himself
A documentary shot during the production of Samuel Fuller's film The Big Red One.
Trapalhões do Futuro
Colonel Sharp
Caleb Swain (Jerry Lewis) e sua esposa Lutetia (Madeline Kahn) são um casal que são considerados por outras pessoas como o mais belo. Mas tudo muda quando Lutetia dá à luz um casal de gêmeos horrorosos. Eles são Wilbur e Eliza (também interpretados por Lewis e Kahn) e, que na verdade, são dois alienígenas que foram escolhidos e enviados para resolverem os problemas do planeta. Quando eles estão separados, os dois ficam fracos e sem inteligência, mas juntos, possuem um grande potencial. Infelizmente por interesse de terceiros, eles acabam sendo ameaçados de se separarem pra sempre.
Cão Branco
Charlie Felton
A jovem aspirante a atriz Julie Sawyer encontra um cão branco perdido na rua e resolve adotá-lo. No entanto, aos poucos ela começa a notar um comportamento estranho no cachorro e percebe que se trata de um animal treinado a vida toda para atacar pessoas negras. Diante desse comportamento racista do cachorro, Julie resolve entregar o animal aos cuidados de Keys, um adestrador, ele próprio negro, para tentar reeducar o animal.
Cão Branco
Screenplay
A jovem aspirante a atriz Julie Sawyer encontra um cão branco perdido na rua e resolve adotá-lo. No entanto, aos poucos ela começa a notar um comportamento estranho no cachorro e percebe que se trata de um animal treinado a vida toda para atacar pessoas negras. Diante desse comportamento racista do cachorro, Julie resolve entregar o animal aos cuidados de Keys, um adestrador, ele próprio negro, para tentar reeducar o animal.
Cão Branco
Director
A jovem aspirante a atriz Julie Sawyer encontra um cão branco perdido na rua e resolve adotá-lo. No entanto, aos poucos ela começa a notar um comportamento estranho no cachorro e percebe que se trata de um animal treinado a vida toda para atacar pessoas negras. Diante desse comportamento racista do cachorro, Julie resolve entregar o animal aos cuidados de Keys, um adestrador, ele próprio negro, para tentar reeducar o animal.
Hammett: Mistério em Chinatown
Old Man in Pool Hall
O ex-detetive Dashiell Hammett é procurado por um antigo colega de trabalho para investigar o desaparecimento de uma garota chinesa. De volta às ruas, ele descobre uma perigosa rede de corrupção.
O  Estado das Coisa
Joe
Leão de Ouro em Veneza/1983, "O Estado das Coisas" foi dirigido por Wender durante um hiato na produção de "Hammett", que ele estava filmando nos EUA. Uma equipe cinematográfica está em Portugal para realizar um remake de um clássico de sci-fi americano, "The Most Dangerous Man Alive". A produção é paralisada quando o produtor Gordon vai a Los Angeles apresentar o copião das primeiras cenas e solicitar mais verba aos seus investidores. Como Gordon não retorna, Fritz, o diretor, decide ir procurá-lo nos EUA. Mas o produtor é agora um homem mudado: vive escondido, temendo a chegada de um suposto assassino. Fritz, a princípio, pensa que aquilo não passa de um delírio paranoico de Gordon, mas muda de ideia quando a vida de ambos se transforma numa absurda trama de filme B.
Agonia e Glória
War Correspondent (uncredited)
Um sargento veterano da Primeira Guerra Mundial lidera um esquadrão na Segunda Guerra Mundial, sempre na companhia de seus recrutas, o sobrevivente Griff, o escritor Zab, o siciliano Vinci e o soldado Johnson. Participam das batalhas de Vichy na África Francesa, Sicília, D-Day na Praia Omaha, Bélgica e França, terminando em um campo de concentração na Tchecoslováquia, onde enfrentam o verdadeiro horror da guerra.
Agonia e Glória
Writer
Um sargento veterano da Primeira Guerra Mundial lidera um esquadrão na Segunda Guerra Mundial, sempre na companhia de seus recrutas, o sobrevivente Griff, o escritor Zab, o siciliano Vinci e o soldado Johnson. Participam das batalhas de Vichy na África Francesa, Sicília, D-Day na Praia Omaha, Bélgica e França, terminando em um campo de concentração na Tchecoslováquia, onde enfrentam o verdadeiro horror da guerra.
Agonia e Glória
Director
Um sargento veterano da Primeira Guerra Mundial lidera um esquadrão na Segunda Guerra Mundial, sempre na companhia de seus recrutas, o sobrevivente Griff, o escritor Zab, o siciliano Vinci e o soldado Johnson. Participam das batalhas de Vichy na África Francesa, Sicília, D-Day na Praia Omaha, Bélgica e França, terminando em um campo de concentração na Tchecoslováquia, onde enfrentam o verdadeiro horror da guerra.
1941: Uma Guerra Muito Louca
Interceptor Commander
Após o ataque japonês à Pearl Harbor, os residentes da Califórnia entram em pânico com medo de serem o próximo alvo. Entre eles estão Wild Bill Kelso, um piloto louco da Guarda Nacional; o Sargento Frank Tree, um patriota, comandante do grupo de tanque; Ward Douglas, um civil com vontade de ajudar a guerra americana a qualquer esforço e custo e o Major General Joseph W. Stilwell, que tenta duramente manter a sanidade no meio do caos.
Cinématon
N°602
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Quando os Homens São Maus
Screenplay
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them just how mean the other can be. "The Meanest Men in the West" is actually an amalgam of two episodes of the hit 1960's TV series, "The Virginian." In one installment, a wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped by a nasty gunslinger. But the crime is only just a means for the ruffian to draw the tough title character into a blood- thirsty revenge scheme. In the second, a drifter burglarizes the Shiloh ranch. Then an unhinged girl relies on the man to aid in her flight from home.
Quando os Homens São Maus
Director
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them just how mean the other can be. "The Meanest Men in the West" is actually an amalgam of two episodes of the hit 1960's TV series, "The Virginian." In one installment, a wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped by a nasty gunslinger. But the crime is only just a means for the ruffian to draw the tough title character into a blood- thirsty revenge scheme. In the second, a drifter burglarizes the Shiloh ranch. Then an unhinged girl relies on the man to aid in her flight from home.
Scott Joplin
Impresario
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
O Amigo Americano
The American
O moldurista Jonathan Zimmerman sofre de uma doença fatal. Ao cruzar o caminho de Tom Ripley, traficante de obras de arte falsificadas, ele é arrastado para o mundo do crime. Zimmerman recebe a oferta de matar em troca de dinheiro, o que asseguraria o bem-estar de sua família após a sua morte.
Os Homens Violentos do Klan
Screenplay
A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young woman has been violently raped. The white town fathers immediately declare that the attacker had to be black, and place the blame on Garth, a young black man. Assuming that the men in white sheets aren't intent on holding a fair and impartial trial, Garth takes to the woods as the Klansmen lynching party hunts him down.
Fúria no Sangue
Story
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is challenged by a noble Mexican Sheriff interested only in carrying out the law - not vengeance.
The Young Nurses
Doc Haskell
Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
Writer
A private detective (Glenn Corbett) infiltrates a gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on politicians.
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
Director
A private detective (Glenn Corbett) infiltrates a gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on politicians.
The Last Movie
Sam
After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.
Tubarão
Screenplay
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
Tubarão
Director
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
Na Mira da Morte
Screenplay
Byron Orlock, veterano ator de filmes de terror, decide se aposentar, pois acredita que seus filmes não assustam mais como outrora. Sua derradeira aparição pública será na estreia de seu último filme, num drive-in. Lá ele encontrará Bobby Thompson, um jovem aparentemente comum que após matar a mãe e a esposa saiu pelas ruas atirando ao acaso.
Cinéastes de notre temps: Samuel Fuller, Independent Filmmaker
Interviewee
Episode of the French television series about the work of American film director Samuel Fuller. (A 23-minute edited version of this show appears on the Criterion Collection release of "The Naked Kiss."
The Cape Town Affair
Writer
South African secret agents attempt to save confidential microfilm before it falls into the hands of Communists. A color remake of the Sam Fuller film, Pickup on South Street.
O Demônio das Onze Horas
Samuel Fuller (uncredited)
Casado com uma italiana e entediado com sua vida na alta sociedade, o professor espanhol Ferdinand foge em direção ao sul com Marianne, após um cadáver ser encontrado na casa dela. Eles caem na estrada e deixa um rastro de roubos por onde passam.
O Beijo Amargo
Producer
A prostituta Kelly, traumatizada por uma certa experiência feita por psiquiatras, deixa seu passado e encontra consolo na cidade de Grantville. Ela conhece Griff, o capitão da polícia da cidade, com quem passa uma tarde romântica. Kelly encontra um emprego como enfermeira em um hospital para crianças deficientes e o trabalho ajuda-a a encontrar o seu lado sensível no cuidado e ajuda dos seus jovens pacientes. O caminho de Kelly em direção à felicidade é errado, quando ela testemunha um evento chocante, que ameaça não apenas sua felicidade, mas também sua saúde mental.
O Beijo Amargo
Writer
A prostituta Kelly, traumatizada por uma certa experiência feita por psiquiatras, deixa seu passado e encontra consolo na cidade de Grantville. Ela conhece Griff, o capitão da polícia da cidade, com quem passa uma tarde romântica. Kelly encontra um emprego como enfermeira em um hospital para crianças deficientes e o trabalho ajuda-a a encontrar o seu lado sensível no cuidado e ajuda dos seus jovens pacientes. O caminho de Kelly em direção à felicidade é errado, quando ela testemunha um evento chocante, que ameaça não apenas sua felicidade, mas também sua saúde mental.
O Beijo Amargo
Director
A prostituta Kelly, traumatizada por uma certa experiência feita por psiquiatras, deixa seu passado e encontra consolo na cidade de Grantville. Ela conhece Griff, o capitão da polícia da cidade, com quem passa uma tarde romântica. Kelly encontra um emprego como enfermeira em um hospital para crianças deficientes e o trabalho ajuda-a a encontrar o seu lado sensível no cuidado e ajuda dos seus jovens pacientes. O caminho de Kelly em direção à felicidade é errado, quando ela testemunha um evento chocante, que ameaça não apenas sua felicidade, mas também sua saúde mental.
Paixões que Alucinam
Screenplay
Um jornalista ambicioso se compromete a resolver um assassinato cometido dentro de um asilo, o que ele considera uma grande chance para conquistar o Prêmio Pulitzer.
Paixões que Alucinam
Producer
Um jornalista ambicioso se compromete a resolver um assassinato cometido dentro de um asilo, o que ele considera uma grande chance para conquistar o Prêmio Pulitzer.
Paixões que Alucinam
Director
Um jornalista ambicioso se compromete a resolver um assassinato cometido dentro de um asilo, o que ele considera uma grande chance para conquistar o Prêmio Pulitzer.
Mortos que Caminham
Screenplay
O brigadeiro-general Frank D. Merrill lidera os 3.000 voluntários americanos de sua 5307ª Unidade Composta (Provisória), também conhecida como "Malandros do Merrill", atrás das linhas japonesas através da Birmânia até Myitkyina, ultrapassando seus limites e travando batalhas em todas as frentes mais disputadas. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
Mortos que Caminham
Director
O brigadeiro-general Frank D. Merrill lidera os 3.000 voluntários americanos de sua 5307ª Unidade Composta (Provisória), também conhecida como "Malandros do Merrill", atrás das linhas japonesas através da Birmânia até Myitkyina, ultrapassando seus limites e travando batalhas em todas as frentes mais disputadas. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
A Lei dos Marginais
Producer
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
A Lei dos Marginais
Writer
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
A Lei dos Marginais
Director
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
O Quimono Escarlate
Producer
Os detetives Charlie Bancroft (Glenn Corbett) e Joe Kojaku (James Shigeta) combateram juntos na Guerra da Coréia e desenvolveram uma forte amizade. Agora, a dupla trabalha na divisão de homicídios da polícia de Los Angeles e tem um caso complicado para investigar: O assassinato de uma dançarina. Enquanto tentam solucionar o caso, os dois acabam se envolvendo em um perigoso triângulo amoroso com uma sedutora e misteriosa mulher.
O Quimono Escarlate
Writer
Os detetives Charlie Bancroft (Glenn Corbett) e Joe Kojaku (James Shigeta) combateram juntos na Guerra da Coréia e desenvolveram uma forte amizade. Agora, a dupla trabalha na divisão de homicídios da polícia de Los Angeles e tem um caso complicado para investigar: O assassinato de uma dançarina. Enquanto tentam solucionar o caso, os dois acabam se envolvendo em um perigoso triângulo amoroso com uma sedutora e misteriosa mulher.
O Quimono Escarlate
Director
Os detetives Charlie Bancroft (Glenn Corbett) e Joe Kojaku (James Shigeta) combateram juntos na Guerra da Coréia e desenvolveram uma forte amizade. Agora, a dupla trabalha na divisão de homicídios da polícia de Los Angeles e tem um caso complicado para investigar: O assassinato de uma dançarina. Enquanto tentam solucionar o caso, os dois acabam se envolvendo em um perigoso triângulo amoroso com uma sedutora e misteriosa mulher.
Verboten!
Writer
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.
Verboten!
Director
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.
Dogface
Producer
This unaired pilot for a series Fuller pitched to CBS about a U.S. infantry troop fighting its way through Nazi-held North Africa offers a fascinating new angle on Fuller’s relationship with the average foot soldier and moral complexity of war.
Dogface
Writer
This unaired pilot for a series Fuller pitched to CBS about a U.S. infantry troop fighting its way through Nazi-held North Africa offers a fascinating new angle on Fuller’s relationship with the average foot soldier and moral complexity of war.
Dogface
Director
This unaired pilot for a series Fuller pitched to CBS about a U.S. infantry troop fighting its way through Nazi-held North Africa offers a fascinating new angle on Fuller’s relationship with the average foot soldier and moral complexity of war.
Dragões da Violência
Producer
Jessica Drummond é uma poderosa rainha do gado que se orgulha de possuir 40 armas à sua disposição e, por isso, mantém uma pequena cidade do Velho Oeste sob um reinado de horror. Seu irmão, um jovem encrenqueiro, está sempre arranjando confusão.
Dragões da Violência
Screenplay
Jessica Drummond é uma poderosa rainha do gado que se orgulha de possuir 40 armas à sua disposição e, por isso, mantém uma pequena cidade do Velho Oeste sob um reinado de horror. Seu irmão, um jovem encrenqueiro, está sempre arranjando confusão.
Dragões da Violência
Director
Jessica Drummond é uma poderosa rainha do gado que se orgulha de possuir 40 armas à sua disposição e, por isso, mantém uma pequena cidade do Velho Oeste sob um reinado de horror. Seu irmão, um jovem encrenqueiro, está sempre arranjando confusão.
A FLECHA SAGRADA
Producer
Depois de ser derrotado na guerra da secessão, por ódio aos yankes, um soldado vai para o Oeste e se integra aos índios Sioux. Ele acaba representando os índios em negociações com os homens brancos e, depois de desacertos, precisa decidir se fica a favor ou contra sua pátria.
A FLECHA SAGRADA
Writer
Depois de ser derrotado na guerra da secessão, por ódio aos yankes, um soldado vai para o Oeste e se integra aos índios Sioux. Ele acaba representando os índios em negociações com os homens brancos e, depois de desacertos, precisa decidir se fica a favor ou contra sua pátria.
A FLECHA SAGRADA
Director
Depois de ser derrotado na guerra da secessão, por ódio aos yankes, um soldado vai para o Oeste e se integra aos índios Sioux. Ele acaba representando os índios em negociações com os homens brancos e, depois de desacertos, precisa decidir se fica a favor ou contra sua pátria.
No Umbral da China
Screenplay
Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.
No Umbral da China
Producer
Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.
No Umbral da China
Director
Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.
A Casa de Bambu
Japanese policeman (uncredited)
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
A Casa de Bambu
Additional Dialogue
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
A Casa de Bambu
Director
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
Sob o Comando da Morte
Writer
Once the commanding officer of a cavalry patrol is killed, the ranking officer who must take command is an army doctor.
Tormenta Sob os Mares
Screenplay
Um cientista com financiamento privado e seus colegas contratam um ex-oficial da Marinha para realizar uma expedição submarina ao Alasca a fim de impedir uma conspiração anti-americana da China Vermelha que pode levar à Terceira Guerra Mundial. Mistura trama adolescente com espetáculo submarino e heroísmo da guerra fria.
Tormenta Sob os Mares
Director
Um cientista com financiamento privado e seus colegas contratam um ex-oficial da Marinha para realizar uma expedição submarina ao Alasca a fim de impedir uma conspiração anti-americana da China Vermelha que pode levar à Terceira Guerra Mundial. Mistura trama adolescente com espetáculo submarino e heroísmo da guerra fria.
Anjo do Mal
Screenplay
O batedor de carteiras Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) rouba Candy (Jean Peters) no metrô. Ele ainda não sabe, mas dentro da bolsa que acabou de pegar está um pedaço de microfilme com importantes segredos do governo. Candy tenta seduzir Skip para recuperar o material, mas acaba se apaixonando pelo bandido, que agora está na mira da polícia e dos comunistas – verdadeiros donos do filme.
Anjo do Mal
Director
O batedor de carteiras Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) rouba Candy (Jean Peters) no metrô. Ele ainda não sabe, mas dentro da bolsa que acabou de pegar está um pedaço de microfilme com importantes segredos do governo. Candy tenta seduzir Skip para recuperar o material, mas acaba se apaixonando pelo bandido, que agora está na mira da polícia e dos comunistas – verdadeiros donos do filme.
A Dama de Preto
Producer
Nova York, 1886. Após ser demitido do jornal The Star, o jornalista Phineas Mitchell (Gene Evans) decide começar a trabalhar por conta própria. Rapidamente, as publicações de Mitchell conseguem uma popularidade fenomenal, o que passa a incomodar os magnatas da comunicação da cidade.
A Dama de Preto
Director
Nova York, 1886. Após ser demitido do jornal The Star, o jornalista Phineas Mitchell (Gene Evans) decide começar a trabalhar por conta própria. Rapidamente, as publicações de Mitchell conseguem uma popularidade fenomenal, o que passa a incomodar os magnatas da comunicação da cidade.
A Dama de Preto
Writer
Nova York, 1886. Após ser demitido do jornal The Star, o jornalista Phineas Mitchell (Gene Evans) decide começar a trabalhar por conta própria. Rapidamente, as publicações de Mitchell conseguem uma popularidade fenomenal, o que passa a incomodar os magnatas da comunicação da cidade.
Scandal Sheet
Novel
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
Baionetas Caladas
Screenplay
A história de um pelotão durante a Guerra da Coreia. Um por um os superiores do Cabo Denno vão sendo mortos chegando ao ponto em que ele deve tentar assumir a responsabilidade de comando.
Baionetas Caladas
Director
A história de um pelotão durante a Guerra da Coreia. Um por um os superiores do Cabo Denno vão sendo mortos chegando ao ponto em que ele deve tentar assumir a responsabilidade de comando.
The Tanks Are Coming
Story
An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.
Capacete de Aço
Producer
Um grupo de recrutas sem rumo do exército americano enfrenta tropas comunistas superiores em um templo budista abandonado durante a Guerra da Coreia.
Capacete de Aço
Writer
Um grupo de recrutas sem rumo do exército americano enfrenta tropas comunistas superiores em um templo budista abandonado durante a Guerra da Coreia.
Capacete de Aço
Director
Um grupo de recrutas sem rumo do exército americano enfrenta tropas comunistas superiores em um templo budista abandonado durante a Guerra da Coreia.
O Barão Aventureiro
Writer
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.
O Barão Aventureiro
Director
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.
Eu Matei Jesse James
Writer
Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend Cynthy. The guilt-stricken Ford soon finds himself greeted with derision and open mockery throughout town. He travels to Colorado to try his hand at prospecting in hopes that marriage with Cynthy is still in the cards.
Eu Matei Jesse James
Director
Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend Cynthy. The guilt-stricken Ford soon finds himself greeted with derision and open mockery throughout town. He travels to Colorado to try his hand at prospecting in hopes that marriage with Cynthy is still in the cards.
Apaixonados
Writer
Depois de ter cumprido 5 anos de prisão, por ter matado um homem enquanto defendia seu amante de má reputação Harry (John Baragrey), Jenny Marsh (Patricia Knight) está pronta para a liberdade condicional. Seu oficial de condicional, Griff Marat Cornel Wilde está determinado a fazer Jenny andar na linha. Por falta de outras perspectivas, Griff arruma um emprego para Jenny em sua própria casa, algo totalmente contra os regulamentos. No começo, Jenny ainda tem sentimentos por Harry, mas como Griff mostra mais compaixão e cuidado, ela se apaixona por ele - o que Harry parece encorajar, porque ele tem planos de acabar com Griff e seus sonhos de cargo político, e a situação logo se torna ainda mais perigosa.
Gangs of the Waterfront
Story
Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang members. District Attorney Brady induces taxidermist Peter Winkly, who is an exact double for Malone,to impersonate Dutch and assume leadership of the gang. Winkly "takes over" the gang and only Rita, Dutch's girl friend, has any suspicion that he is not really Dutch. But Dutch sees a newspaper showing him out on the town, escapes from the hospital and is on his way to look up the impostor.
V-E +1
Director
The silent 16 mm footage that makes up "V-E +1" documents the burial of beaten and emaciated Holocaust victims found by Allied forces in the Nazi concentration camp at Falkenau, Czechoslovakia, as World War II ended in Europe.
Margin for Error
Screenplay
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
Power of the Press
Story
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
Correspondente Especial
Story
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
Bowery Boy
Original Story
Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's death. Sock helps racketeer J.R. Mason sell food to the clinic, unaware that Mason sells cheap and often tainted food. When a number of patients, including Sock's brother, become ill from food poisoning, Sock is kidnapped by Mason to keep him silent. Dr. O'Hara must find a way to rescue Sock and stop Mason's contamination of hospital food supplies.
She Married a Cop
Writer
This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he sings at the annual Policeman's Ball. For a long time, they have been looking for a voice for their new cartoon feature, "Paddy the Pig," and the cop is just perfect. The policeman is tickled pink at the prospect of being a star and begins telling all his friends about his good fortune (he has no idea what they plan to do with his voice). Eventually he ends up marrying one of the producers, who still hasn't told him the truth. Suddenly the night of the big premiere finally arrives and all of the policeman's old friends and colleagues are there. As it begins, the policeman is appalled and humiliated to see that he has been mocked and has become a laughing stock. He immediately spurns his new wife and goes back to the police force. Time passes, and fortunately, the two reunite and settle their differences.
Federal Man-Hunt
Story
By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies and local police are out to catch him with roadblocks and every car searched, but the escapee gets away. Bill Hasford, a private detective, investigating a racket finds it leads to the wanted man, and has the biggest adventure of his career.
Aventura no Sahara
Story
Agadez é um solitário posto francês assando sob o sol do deserto e comandado pelo cruel e opressivo capitão Savatt (Henry Gordon). Chega, a seu pedido, o Legionário Jim Wilson (Paul Kelly logo seguido por sua noiva, Carla Preston (Lorna Grey), que o localizou de posto em posto. Legionários tomam o forte e libertam Savitt na Arábia Saudita. Deserto assombrado com apenas uma fração da água e da comida necessária para voltar à civilização, mas Savitt passa e retorna ao forte à frente de uma tropa vingadora de homens, mas os árabes cercam Savitt e seus homens, e os amotinados sabem disso. que deixar o forte e ajudá-los significa sua própria morte ...
Gangs of New York
Screenplay
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
Gangs of New York
Story
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
Aconteceu em Hollywood
Screenplay
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Hats Off
Story
The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen. Both have been assigned to stir up publicity for separate expositions at the 1936 Texas Centennial (newsreel footage of which predominates throughout the film's short running time). To throw Jimmy off the track, Jo pretends to be a schoolteacher, but by the time the ruse has been revealed, the two leading characters have fallen in love.
Hats Off
Screenplay
The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen. Both have been assigned to stir up publicity for separate expositions at the 1936 Texas Centennial (newsreel footage of which predominates throughout the film's short running time). To throw Jimmy off the track, Jo pretends to be a schoolteacher, but by the time the ruse has been revealed, the two leading characters have fallen in love.