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Movies By Sam Fuller
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"Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death ... in a word, emotion."
— Samuel Fuller (in "Pierrot le Fou" [1965] by Jean-Luc Godard)
Samuel Fuller entry at Wikipedia
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Samuel Fuller entry at Wikipedia
Movies By Sam Fuller
"The Premiere Frank Capra Collection" box set [2006]
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"I Shot Jesse James" [1949]
"The Baron of Arizona" [1950]
http://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Samuel-Arizona-Criterion-Collection/dp/B000QXDFS0/
"The Steel Helmet" [1951?]
Written & directed by Samuel Fuller; video/DVD not available; full credits at IMDb
"Fixed Bayonets !" [1951]
Written & directed by Samuel Fuller; video/DVD not available; full credits at IMDb
"Park Row" [1952]
about the birth of American journalism, "Fuller's favorite work"
"Pickup On South Street"
[Fox June 1953]
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An unwitting courier of government secrets on microfilm has her purse stolen while under the eye of government agents. Her Commie spy ex-boyfriend helps her track down the thief, who is then captured by police, tipping off the thief that the film is of major importance.
Co-written & directed by Samuel Fuller; starring Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter {Oscar nom}, Murvyn Vye, Richard Kiley, Willis Bouchey & Milburn Stone Criterion b&w DVD [2/2004] for $26.99 Fox b&w VHS [1/98] for $18.98 full credits from IMDb |
"Hell and High Water" [1954]
"House of Bamboo" [1955]
"Run of The Arrow" [1957]
"China Gate" [1957]
"Forty Guns" Barbara Stanwyk western [1957]
"Verboten!" [1958]
"The Crimson Kimono" [1959]
filmed in L.A.'s Little Tokyo, about interracial love
"Underworld U.S.A." [1961]
"Merrill's Marauders" [1962]
"Shock Corridor" [1963]
"The Naked Kiss" [1964 classic noir]
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0058390/fullcredits
"Shark !" [1969]
"Dead Pigeon On Beethoven Street" [1973]
"The Meanest men In The West" [1976]
"The Big Red One" [1980]
Written & directed by Samuel Fuller; starring Lee Marvin; full credits at IMDb
"Big red One" re-relse 2005? w/ added 40 min
"White Dog" [filmed 1982, released 1991]
"Les Voleurs de La Nuit" (Thieves After Dark) [1984]
"Street of No Return" [1989]
"Madonne et le dragon" [1990]
"Girls in Prison" [script; 1994]
Other Works by Sam Fuller
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"Hammett" feature film [Zoetrope / Warner Bros. Sept 1982]
San Francisco novel writter and former Pinkerton detective Dashiell Hammett is dragged into a search for a beautiful chinese cabaret actress turned blackmailing porn star. Directed by Wim Wenders, starring Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear, Elisha Cook Jr., Lydia Lei, R.G. Armstrong, Richard Bradford, Sylvia Sidney, Royal Dano & Samuel Fuller {as 'Old Man in Pool Hall'} Paramount color DVD [11/2005] for $12.99 Warner color VHS [3/93] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb based on "Hammett" [1975 novel] by Joe Gores Ballantine mass pb [9/76] out of print/used HarperCollins pb [9/82] out of print/used Putnam hardcover [7/75] out of print/used |
Books By Sam Fuller
"Hats Off" [1936]
"Test Tube Baby" [1936]
"Make Up and Kiss" [1938]
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"The Dark Page" [1944 novel] by Samuel Fuller, Introduction by Wim Wenders Kingly Books 7¾x5¼ pb [9/2007] for $21.73 |
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"Crown of India: A New Adventure In Suspense & Intrigue" [1966 novel] by Samuel Fuller Critics Choice/Lorevan mass pb [11/86] out of print/used |
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"144 Piccadilly" [1971 novel] by Samuel Fuller R.W. Baron hardcover [1/71] out of print/used |
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"Dead Pigeon On Beethoven Street" [1974 novel] by Samuel Fuller Pyramid Books movie tie-in mass pb [1/74] out of print/used |
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"The Big Red One" [1980 novel] by Samuel Fuller, Introduction by Richard Schickel Thunder's Mouth Press 8¼x5 pb [7/2005] for $12.44 |
"Quint’s World" [1988]
Worldwide Lib pb [2/88] out of print/used
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"New York In The 1930s" [1997] Photographs by Samuel Fuller PUB pb [8/00] out of print/used |
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"A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting & Filmmaking" [2002 autobiography] by Samuel Fuller listed on the Los Angeles Times Best Books of the West 2002 Applause Books 9¼x6¼ pb [4/2004] for $12.89 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2002] out of print/many used |
Works About Sam Fuller
"Samuel Fuller" [1971] by Phil Hardy
"Samuel Fuller" [1971] by Nicholas Garnham
"Samuel Fuller" [1985] by Olivier Amiel
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"Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made" documentary [indep Dec 1994]
In 1954, Sam Fuller filmed locations in Brasil for a feature based on Sasha Siemel's 1953 novel "Tigrero", the unproduced seventh film of Fuller's Zanuck contract; in 1993, Fuller & Jim Jarmusch returned to the same village, carrying with them the earlier footage. Co-produced, written & directed by Mika Kaurismäki Fantoma widescreen color DVD [5/2004] for $17.99 Arrow Ent. color VHS [4/96] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
 | "Sam Fuller: Film Is A Battleground - A Critical Study, With Interviews, A Filmography & A Bibliography" [1994] by Lee Server McFarland & Co. pb [10/2003] for $29.95 McFarland & Co. 9¼x6 hardcover [7/94] out of print/used |
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