John Eliot Sturges ( January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...3 January 1911 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...1911 – August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...18 August 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January_February January 6 _ William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 _ AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty_two subdivisions January 11 _ Mark Thatcher, son of the British...1982)
Known as "The dean of big_budget action movies made during the 1950s and 1960". Sturges' movies include The Magnificent Seven is one of the English language titles for the Akira Kurosawa film Shichinin no samurai (1954), also called The Seven Samurai. ...The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape (1963; director: John Sturges) is a famous World War II film, based on a true story about Allied POWs with a record for escaping from POW camps. ...The Great Escape, The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was an event of legendary proportion which has been portrayed in numerous Western films. ...Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Ice Station Zebra (1963, ISBN 0002433389) is a novel written by Alistair Maclean. ...Ice Station Zebra and Marooned (movie).
He started in For other uses, see Hollywood (disambiguation) Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that runs from about Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to...Hollywood in 1932 as an editor. In Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (60,000 ft) into the air. ...World War II he started directing documentaries and training films for the US The Army Air Corps is a vital component of the British Army. ...Army Air Corps. Sturges' mainstream directorial career began in 1946 with The Man Who Dared the first of many grade_B movies. He then use widescreen Cinemascope, or more strictly CinemaScope, was a widescreen movie format used from 1953 to 1967. ...CinemaScope format imaginatively by placing Spencer Tracy Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 _ June 10, 1967) was an American film actor who appeared in 74 films from 1930 through the 1960s. ...Spencer Tracy all alone against a vast desert panorama in the suspense Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 film which tells the story of a stranger who comes to a small town to give the father of a Japanese-American soldier the medals that his son won. ...Bad Day at Black Rock ( 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...1955, for which he received a Best Director This page is about the OSCAR, the communications satellete. ...Oscar nomination).
Sturges use of no dialogue in several key scenes makes them quite memorable as the reaction shots on Holden, William Demarest and William Campbell tell what is in their minds.