Vincent Sherman

Vincent Sherman

Рождение : 1906-07-16, Vienna, Georgia, USA

Смерть : 2006-06-18

История

Vincent Sherman (July 16, 1906 – June 18, 2006) was an American director, and actor, who worked in Hollywood. His movies include Mr. Skeffington (1944), Nora Prentiss (1947), and The Young Philadelphians (1959). He began his career as an actor on Broadway and later films. He directed B-movies for Warner Bros. before moving up to A-pictures. He was a good friend of actor Errol Flynn, whom he directed in Adventures of Don Juan (1949). He directed three Joan Crawford movies The Damned Don't Cry! (1950), Harriet Craig (1950), and Goodbye, My Fancy (1951). Description above from the Wikipedia article Vincent Sherman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Профиль

Vincent Sherman

Фильмы

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.
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Self (archive footage)
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
Himself - Film Director & Friend
The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in front of the camera - either making movies or filling the newsreels and gossip magazines. Tragically he was dead from the effects of drugs and alcohol by the time he was only 50 & the myths live on. But there is another side of Flynn that is less well known - his ambitions to be a serious writer and newspaper correspondent, his documentary films and his interest in the Spanish Civil War and Castro's Cuba
Old Acquaintance: A Classic Woman's Picture
Self
Short documentary about the "woman's picture" at Warner Brothers.
Mr. Skeffington: A Picture of Strength
Produced by Warner Brothers as one of the extras to the DVD release of MR. SKEFFINGTON (1944), this short documentary has a variety of talking heads describing the origins and impact of the film on its original release, as well as explaining how and why its appeal has lasted so long.
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self - Director
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Self
Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The questions it raises go right the very nature of how film functions in our culture, and while hardly exhaustive, Anker’s film makes for a good, thought provoking starting point.
Rita
Self
Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth.
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Himself
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Self
In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great actress she was, and not only as "mommie dearest." caricature she has become. Friends, fellow actors, directors, and others reminisce about their association with her, and numerous film clips show off her talent from her start in silents to bad science fiction/horror movies at the end of her career.
Forever Hollywood
Self
Noted Hollywood stars and directors talk about the history and evolution of the film industry in Los Angeles.
Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace
Self
Documentary overview of Peter Lorre's ascension to fame as a master purveyor of silky but disquieting peril.
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Self
Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her fifty-year career, she made over eighty films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence.
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
Himself
An insider's account of Jack Warner, a founding father of the American film industry. This feature length documentary provides the rags to riches story of the man whose studio - Warner Bros - created many of Hollywood's most classic films. Includes extensive interviews with family members and friends, film clips, rare home movies and unique location footage.
Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
Self
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
Self
Narrated by actor Christopher Lee, this documentary details the life of timeless Hollywood adventure hero and sex symbol Errol Flynn, who swung his way into the hearts of the world's moviegoers with a sword and an errant grin. Interviews with friends and family balance a collection of clips from classic films such as The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Charge of the Light Brigade and Captain Blood, revealing the man behind the movie star.
Trouble in High Timber Country
Director
A proud patriarch battles union organizers and a powerful conglomerate threatening the family-owned lumber and mining operation which he runs with his three sons, his daughter and his nephew in this pilot film to "The Yeagers" TV series that actually ended months before it aired.
Bogie
Director
This TV movie focuses on the life of actor Humphrey Bogart.
Women at West Point
Director
A fictionalized drama about the first women to enter the U.S. Military Academy in 1976 and the reactions they faced.
Lady of the House
Director
A dramatization of the life of Sally Stanford, who operated a bordello in the northern California town of Sausalito, and eventually went on to be elected mayor of the town.
The Last Hurrah
Director
The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young, dissatisfied opponents, and his worries that his age and his ill health may have an effect on the election's outcome.
Сервантес
Director
Молодой и честолюбивый Мигель де Сервантес , по воле случая получив должность личного секретаря посланника Папы, оказывается в Риме, в эпицентре "большой политики", как внутренней, так и внешней: идет жесткая многолетняя война двух миров - христианского и исламского... Происходят судьбоносные для Мигеля встречи с Хасан-Беем - мудрым, расчетливым посланником турецкого султана и потрясающе красивой куртизанкой Джулией )...
A Fever in the Blood
Director
A judge, a district attorney and a U. S. senator--each hoping to be elected the next governor--attempt to manipulate a murder trial to advance their own political ambitions. Director Vincent Sherman's 1961 drama stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Don Ameche, Jack Kelly, Angie Dickinson, Herbert Marshall, Jesse White, Parley Baer, Carroll O'Connor, Ray Danton, Andra Martin, Rhodes Reason and Louise Lorimer.
Ice Palace
Director
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy (Richard Burton) and rugged activist leader Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.
Мододые филадельфийцы
Director
На основе сюжета этого фильма вполне можно было бы создать сериал. В качестве описания приведу выдержку из англо-русского словаря: "Philadelphia lawyer - 1) блестящий юрист; 2) ловкий, изворотливый адвокат". Становление такого вот "филадельфийского юриста" и показано в этом фильме. Затронуты также и самые "злободневные" темы: любовь, честь, дружба, предательство, социальные предрассудки и, конечно же, всё кончается победой добра над злом.
The Naked Earth
Director
Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested with crocodiles.
Текстильные джунгли
Director
Действие картины происходит в среде текстильного бизнеса, который по уровню преступности ничем не уступает наркомафии.
Defend My Love
Supervising Technical Director
As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated.
Pride of the Blue Grass
Screenplay
A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by the stable siren. The girl finally rehabilitates the horse then enters it in a big race.
Lone Star
Director
Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight state senator Thomas Craden, in the process winning the heart of Craden's newspaper-editor girlfriend Martha Ronda.
Афера на Тринидаде
Producer
Когда Стив Эмери приезжает в Тринидад по просьбе брата, он обнаруживает, что тот уже мертв, а вдова покойного, Крис, крутит роман с Максом Фабианом, подозреваемым в убийстве. Постепенно Стив понимает, что сам попал под влияние чар невестки. Но виновницу развернувшихся мелодраматических страстей отнюдь не смущает двусмысленность ситуации: она во что бы то ни стало стремится вывести на чистую воду убийцу своего мужа…
Афера на Тринидаде
Director
Когда Стив Эмери приезжает в Тринидад по просьбе брата, он обнаруживает, что тот уже мертв, а вдова покойного, Крис, крутит роман с Максом Фабианом, подозреваемым в убийстве. Постепенно Стив понимает, что сам попал под влияние чар невестки. Но виновницу развернувшихся мелодраматических страстей отнюдь не смущает двусмысленность ситуации: она во что бы то ни стало стремится вывести на чистую воду убийцу своего мужа…
Goodbye, My Fancy
Director
Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if there is still a spark between them.
Гаррьет Крэйг
Director
Гаррьет Крейг — очень властная женщина, которая обожает свой дом и богатство, и совершенно равнодушна к людям. Она обманывает мужа, к кузине относится как к секретарше, а со слугами обращается как с рабами.
The Damned Don't Cry
Director
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Backfire
Director
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
Горячее сердце
Director
1945 год, конец Второй мировой войны. Группа солдат союзников находится в самодельном мобильном хирургическом госпитале британской армии, спрятанном глубоко в джунглях Бирмы. Однажды в дружном солдатском коллективе оказывается новичок из Шотландии, причем все знают, что скоро он должен умереть…
Похождения Дон Жуана
Director
В центре сюжета Дон Жуан, вернувшийся в Испанию и очутившийся в водовороте интриг, заговоров и романтических отношений.
The Unfaithful
Director
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.
Nora Prentiss
Director
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
Janie Gets Married
Director
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
Pillow to Post
Director
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.
Мистер Скеффингтон
Director
Джоб Скеффингтон информирует Фанни Треллис о том, что ее брат Триппи присвоил себе значительную сумму денег, принадлежащих банку Скеффингтона. Чтобы спасти брата, Фанни выходит замуж за Джоба. Но брат, разозлившись на нее, отправляется на Первую мировую войну, где погибает. Фанни разводится и отсылает свою дочь к Джобу, чтобы та жила с ним в Европе. После этого Фанни постоянно встречается с разными мужчинами. Но с началом Второй мировой войны к ней возвращается дочь. После дифтерии Фанни теряет свою красоту, а ее дочь сбегает с ее последним любовником. В это время в Америку возвращается Джоб, нищий и слепой…
In Our Time
Director
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the city. He wishes to marry, but his family is against plain Jennifer. When she tries to leave, he catches her at the train station and they are married. To be self sufficient, they modernize the family farm with tractors and increase production, but then Germany starts the war.
A Present with a Future
Director
In a short scene a mother explains to her children, Jenny and Billy, why they received war bonds as Christmas presents, even though the mother can afford to give them more expensive gifts. Davis then steps out of character and asks moviegoers to buy war bonds and stamps.
Верная подруга
Director
22 мая 1924 года в родной город приезжает Кэйт Марлоу — автор нашумевшего серьезного романа «Похороны моей души», чтобы дать лекцию на тему «Современная женщина». Писательница решает остановиться в доме своей лучшей подруги детства — Милли Дрэйк, недавно вышедшей замуж за Престона — парня, который в детстве был влюблен в нее. Подруга признается Кэйт, что она тоже писательница и также написала роман о любви, который должен стать бестселлером, среди романтических книг для женщин. Ее мечты сбываются, книга Милли становится безумно популярной и к простой провинциалке приходит слава и успех. Спустя восемь лет Милли вместе с мужем и дочерью переезжает в Нью-Йорк, на премьеру пьесы по книге Кэйт. В вечер перед премьерой Престон признается Кэйт, что он любит ее и что его брак с зазнавшейся Милли тяготит его. Кэйт отказывается его слушать, хотя она понимает его и даже готова ответить взаимностью, но предать дружбу подруги детства она не в силах…
The Hard Way
Director
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
На протяжении всей ночи
Director
Гловс Донахью — нью-йоркский спортивный промоутер. В течение многих лет каждое его утро начинается с чизкейка, приготовленного в пекарне Миллера. Но однажды устоявшийся распорядок был нарушен: владельца пекарни, Миллера, убивают. Он видел, как певица из ночного клуба Леда Гамильтон покидает пекарню. По просьбе своей матери Гловс начинает своё расследование. А когда партнер босса певицы Марти Джо также оказывается убит, Леда и ее аккомпаниатор Пепи исчезают. Вскоре выясняется, что за убийством Миллера стоит крупная подпольная организация, в планах которой — захват страны. Так Гловс выходит на банду тайных нацистов.
Сержант Йорк
Special Guest Director
Этот фильм посвящен истории жизни американца, героя первой мировой войны Элвина С. Йорка, захватившего во время боя в одиночку 132 немецких солдата. Это событие произошло во время наступления Мойзе-Аргонн во Франции. После этого подвига простой солдат стал одним из самых любимых героев Америки.
Underground
Director
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
Flight from Destiny
Director
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
The Man Who Talked Too Much
Director
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters. Director Vincent Sherman's 1940 crime melodrama stars George Brent, William Lundigan, Richard Barthelmess, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Henry Armetta, George Tobias, John Litel, Alan Baxter, Louis Jean Heydt, Clarence Kolb, Sam McDaniel and Mary Gordon.
Saturday's Children
Director
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
Возвращение доктора X
Director
Журналист Уолтер, придя к знаменитой актрисе взять интервью, обнаружил ее мертвой и вызвал полицию. Прибыв на место происшествия, полиция не находит труп, а на следующий день актриса заявляется в полицию и Уолтер выглядит чрезвычайно глупо. Решив, что он не смог ошибиться Уолтер начинает следить за актрисой и знакомится с ее доктором. Доктору Фрэнсису Флэгу, специалисту и исследователю в области заболевания крови, оказывает помощь неизвестно откуда взявшийся в последние месяцы сотрудник, по имени Маршалл Квисн. При взгляде на него поражала необычайная бледность лица, прямо-таки безжизненная, и широкая проседь волос. И еще он кого-то смутно напоминает. Но кого? Вскоре выясняется, что помощник является доктором Морисом Ксавье, тем самым Ксавье, которого признали виновным в убийстве ребенка в ходе эксперимента, и который был казнен на электрическом стуле. Но как же он «вернулся» к жизни?
Pride of the Blue Grass
Story
A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.
Pride of the Blue Grass
Screenplay
A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.
The Adventures of Jane Arden
Screenplay
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is discovered early on by one of the gang leaders.
Король преступного мира
Screenplay
Доктор Найлз Нельсон вполне мог считать свою жизнь счастливой. Успешная практика, красавица-жена Кэрол, тоже врач. Всё резко меняет случай: оказание помощи одному из людей гангстера Герни. Но дружба с гангстером, помимо защиты и денег, чревата огромной опасностью. Доктор Найлз недолго наслаждался появившимися деньгами — случайная полицейская пуля во время оказания помощи очередному бандиту сделала Кэрол вдовой и навлекла на неё подозрение полиции и врачебного сообщества в связях с гангстерами. У Кэрол есть только три месяца, чтобы очистить своё имя и отомстить за мужа.
Heart of the North
Screenplay
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
My Bill
Screenplay
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
Школа преступности
Screenplay
После случайного убийства старьевщика, банда подростков из малообеспеченных семей приговорена к двум года в исправительной школе. В первые дни им придется столкнуться с жестоким режимом директора школы...
Girl in Danger
Willie Tolini
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
Midnight Alibi
Black Mike
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
Hell Bent for Love
Johnny Frank
As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the gangster, "Trigger" Talano, who frames him and brings about his disgrace; but Tim organizes a band ox ex-criminals and turns the table on the racketeer with a vengeance.
The Crime of Helen Stanley
Karl Williams
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
Speed Wings
Mickey
A kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by brothers Tim and Jerry are stolen and suspicion falls on their office secretary Mary Stuart. But she can pilot an airplane with the best of them and she risks her life to save Tim. And when she gets kidnapped, Jerry regains his lost nerve in rescuing her.
Counsellor at Law
Harry Becker
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.