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John Sturges

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John Eliot Sturges (January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. [1]

73 relations: A Girl Named Tamiko, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Awards, Akira Kurosawa, Alias Mr. Twilight, American Cinema Editors, B movie, Backlash (1956 film), Bad Day at Black Rock, Best Man Wins, Blue Ribbon Awards, By Love Possessed (film), Cannes Film Festival, Chino (1973 film), CinemaScope, Directors Guild of America, Escape from Fort Bravo, Fast Company (1953 film), Film director, For the Love of Rusty, Golden Boot Awards, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film), Hollywood, Hour of the Gun, Hugo Award, Ice Station Zebra, It's a Big Country, Jeopardy (film), Joe Kidd, Keeper of the Bees (1947 film), Kind Lady (1951 film), Last Train from Gun Hill, Library of Congress, Marooned (1969 film), Martin Caidin, Mayo Simon, McQ, Moscow International Film Festival, Mystery Street, National Film Registry, Never So Few, Oak Park, Illinois, Preston Sturges, Right Cross, Saddle the Wind, San Luis Obispo, California, Sergeants 3, Seven Samurai, Shadowed, ..., Spencer Tracy, The Capture (film), The Eagle Has Landed (film), The Girl in White, The Great Escape (film), The Hallelujah Trail, The Law and Jake Wade, The Magnificent Seven, The Magnificent Yankee (1950 film), The Man Who Dared (1946 film), The Mercury News, The Old Man and the Sea (1958 film), The People Against O'Hara, The Satan Bug, The Scarlet Coat, The Sign of the Ram, The Walking Hills, Thunderbolt (1947 film), Underwater!, United States, United States Army Air Forces, University of Wisconsin Press, World War II. Expand index (23 more) »

A Girl Named Tamiko

A Girl Named Tamiko (1962) is a drama film directed by John Sturges, filmed in Technicolor and Panavision, and released by Paramount Pictures.

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Academy Award for Best Director

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award for Best Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Akira Kurosawa

was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.

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Alias Mr. Twilight

Alias Mr.

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American Cinema Editors

Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing.

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B movie

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial movie, but not an arthouse film.

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Backlash (1956 film)

Backlash is a 1956 Technicolor Western film directed by John Sturges starring Richard Widmark and Donna Reed.

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Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American thriller film in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan that combines elements of the western genre with that of film noir.

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Best Man Wins

Best Man Wins is a 1948 American historical drama film directed by John Sturges, based on a story by Mark Twain.

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Blue Ribbon Awards

The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan.

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By Love Possessed (film)

By Love Possessed is a 1961 American drama film distributed by United Artists.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Festival (Festival de Cannes), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival (Festival international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world.

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Chino (1973 film)

Chino (Italian: Valdez, il mezzosangue, UK theatrical title: Valdez the Half Breed) is a 1973 Italian Western film starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marcel Bozzuffi, and Vincent Van Patten.

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CinemaScope

CinemaScope is an anamorphic lens series used, from 1953 to 1967, for shooting widescreen movies.

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Directors Guild of America

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad.

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Escape from Fort Bravo

Escape from Fort Bravo is a 1953 Anscocolor western film set during the American Civil War.

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Fast Company (1953 film)

Fast Company is a 1953 comedy film directed by American filmmaker John Sturges.

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Film director

A film director is a person who directs the making of a film.

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For the Love of Rusty

For the Love of Rusty is a 1947 drama film directed by John Sturges.

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Golden Boot Awards

The Golden Boot Awards is an American acknowledgment of achievement honoring actors, actresses, and crew members who have made significant contributions to the genre of Western television and movies.

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a 30-second shootout between lawmen and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that took place at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 American western film starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, based on a real event which took place on October 26, 1881.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Hour of the Gun

Hour of the Gun is a 1967 Western film depicting Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday during their 1881 battles against Ike Clanton and his brothers in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the gunfight's aftermath in and around Tombstone, Arizona, starring James Garner as Earp, Jason Robards as Holliday, and Robert Ryan as Clanton.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.

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Ice Station Zebra

Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 Metrocolor Cold War era suspense and espionage film directed by John Sturges, starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, and Jim Brown.

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It's a Big Country

It's a Big Country: An American Anthology is a 1951 anthology film consisting of eight segments directed by seven directors: Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, John Sturges, Richard Thorpe, Charles Vidor, Don Weis, and William A. Wellman.

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Jeopardy (film)

Jeopardy is a 1953 suspense film noir directed by John Sturges.

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Joe Kidd

Joe Kidd is a 1972 American Technicolor western film in Panavision starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall, written by Elmore Leonard and directed by John Sturges.

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Keeper of the Bees (1947 film)

Keeper of the Bees is a 1947 American drama film directed by John Sturges.

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Kind Lady (1951 film)

Kind Lady is a 1951 film drama directed by John Sturges.

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Last Train from Gun Hill

Last Train from Gun Hill is a 1959 Western in VistaVision and Technicolor by action director John Sturges.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Marooned (1969 film)

Marooned is a 1969 American film directed by John Sturges and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus and Gene Hackman about three astronauts who are trapped and slowly suffocating in space.

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Martin Caidin

Martin Caidin (September 14, 1927 – March 24, 1997) was an American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation.

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Mayo Simon

Mayo Simon is an American screenwriter, author and playwright.

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McQ

McQ is a 1974 Technicolor neo-noir crime film directed by John Sturges, starring John Wayne in Panavision.

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Moscow International Film Festival

The Moscow International Film Festival (Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. Moskóvskiy myezhdoonaródniy kinofyestivál; abbreviated as MIFF) is the film festival first held in Moscow in 1935 and became regular since 1959.

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Mystery Street

Mystery Street is a 1950 black-and-white film noir directed by John Sturges with cinematography by cinematographer John Alton.

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National Film Registry

The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) selection of films deserving of preservation.

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Never So Few

Never So Few is a 1959 CinemaScope Metrocolor war film, directed by John Sturges and starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson, Paul Henreid, Brian Donlevy, Dean Jones, Charles Bronson, and Philip Ahn, and featuring uncredited roles by renowned Asian actors Mako, George Takei and James Hong.

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Oak Park, Illinois

Oak Park is a village adjacent to the West Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges (born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director.

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Right Cross

Right Cross is a 1950 drama film released by MGM, directed by John Sturges, written by Charles Schnee and starring June Allyson, Ricardo Montalban, Dick Powell, Lionel Barrymore, and (in a small uncredited role) Marilyn Monroe.

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Saddle the Wind

Saddle the Wind is a 1958 Western film directed by Robert Parrish, written by Rod Serling and produced by Armand Deutsch.

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San Luis Obispo, California

San Luis Obispo (Spanish for St. Louis, the Bishop), or SLO for short, is a city in the U.S. state of California, located roughly midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on the Central Coast.

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Sergeants 3

Sergeants 3 is a 1962 film directed by John Sturges and featuring Rat Pack icons Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop.

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Seven Samurai

is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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Shadowed

Shadowed, also known as The Gloved Hand, is a 1946 film directed by John Sturges and starring Anita Louise, Lloyd Corrigan, and Robert Scott.

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Spencer Tracy

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor, noted for his natural style and versatility.

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The Capture (film)

The Capture is a 1950 drama film directed by John Sturges, starring Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory and Jacqueline White.

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The Eagle Has Landed (film)

The Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 British film directed by John Sturges and starring Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall.

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The Girl in White

The Girl in White is a 1952 film drama directed by John Sturges.

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The Great Escape (film)

The Great Escape is a 1963 American World War II epic film based on an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German POW camp, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough, filmed in Panavision.

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The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 American Western mockumentary spoof directed by John Sturges, with top-billed stars Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton and Pamela Tiffin.

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The Law and Jake Wade

The Law and Jake Wade is a 1958 Metrocolor western released by MGM in CinemaScope, based on the 1956 novel by Marvin H. Albert and directed by John Sturges.

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The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn and Horst Buchholz.

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The Magnificent Yankee (1950 film)

The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 American biographical film adapted by Emmet Lavery from his play of the same title, which was in turn adapted from the book Mr.

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The Man Who Dared (1946 film)

The Man Who Dared is a 1946 film directed by John Sturges.

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The Mercury News

The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, United States.

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The Old Man and the Sea (1958 film)

The Old Man and the Sea is a 1958 American adventure drama film directed by John Sturges with uncredited direction from Henry King and Fred Zinnemann.

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The People Against O'Hara

The People Against O'Hara is a 1951 film noir directed by John Sturges and based on Eleazar Lipsky's novel.

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The Satan Bug

The Satan Bug is a 1965 American science fiction suspense film from United Artists, produced and directed by John Sturges, that stars George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis and Dana Andrews.

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The Scarlet Coat

The Scarlet Coat is a 1955 American historical drama and swashbuckler in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope from MGM, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by John Sturges, that stars Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders, and Anne Francis.

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The Sign of the Ram

The Sign of the Ram is a 1948 American film noir directed by John Sturges and written by Charles Bennett, based on a novel written by Margaret Ferguson.

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The Walking Hills

The Walking Hills is a 1949 contemporary western film directed by John Sturges and starring Randolph Scott and Ella Raines.

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Thunderbolt (1947 film)

Thunderbolt is a 1947 film directed by William Wyler and John Sturges which documented the American aerial operations of Operation Strangle in World War II, when flyers of the Twelfth Air Force based on Corsica successfully impeded Axis supply lines to the Gustav Line and Anzio beachhead.

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Underwater!

Underwater! is a 1955 adventure film directed by John Sturges and starring Jane Russell and Richard Egan.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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University of Wisconsin Press

The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sturges

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