Samuel Fuller

  • Samuel Fuller – Pickup on South Street (1953)

    1951-1960CrimeFilm NoirSamuel FullerUSA

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    Pickup on South Street opens with a striking omission of dialogue and score, heightening our awareness of the film’s pared images and the diamond-hard editing rhythms. On a subway, a beautiful woman, Candy (Jean Peters), is scrutinized by two men who are obviously tailing her. Everything about Candy’s pose is intensely erotic, from the crook of her arm that’s holding the subway railing to the sweat on her skin, to the way she’s cramped up against the other passengers. Soon saddling up to her is Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark), who approaches her as the prey she clearly represents to his hunter. Hovering over Candy, Skip makes a show of folding a newspaper, opening her purse, rifling through it, and snatching the contents of interest to him.Read More »

  • Samuel Fuller – Fixed bayonets! (1951)

    1951-1960Samuel FullerUSAWar

    Fixed Bayonets! (1951) is a war film written and directed by Samuel Fuller and produced by Twentieth Century-Fox during the Korean War. It is Fuller’s second film about the Korean War. In his motion picture debut, James Dean appears briefly in the film.Read More »

  • Samuel Fuller – Dogface (1959)

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    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.Read More »

  • Samuel Fuller – Underworld U.S.A. (1961)

    1961-1970CrimeFilm NoirSamuel FullerUSA

    A teenager who witnesses the murder of his father vows to exact revenge on the four mobsters involved in the killing.

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    ★★★★★ Watched by Joe 14 Jun 2017

    CLEAN SPORTS MAKE FOR A CLEAN AMERICA

    Peak Fuller nightmare-noir, with a plot that’s jagged and fast like a lightning bolt. The straight world is a million miles away from everything that happens in this movie.Read More »

  • Samuel Fuller – White Dog (1982)

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    Samuel Fuller’s throat-grabbing exposé on American racism was misunderstood and withheld from release when it was made in the early eighties; today, the notorious film is lauded for its daring metaphor and gripping pulp filmmaking. Kristy McNichol stars as a young actress who adopts a lost German shepherd, only to discover through a series of horrifying incidents that the dog has been trained to attack black people, and Paul Winfield plays the animal trainer who tries to cure him. A snarling, uncompromising vision, White Dog is a tragic portrait of the evil done by that most corruptible of animals: the human being.Read More »

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