Samuel Fuller
Director, Actor
- First Films of Samuel Fuller, The (I Shot Jesse James, The Baron of Arizona, The Steel Helmet) (1949-1951)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. John Ireland, Vincent Price, Gene Evans
- Sam Fuller's directorial debut is I Shot Jesse James (1949), the tale of Robert Ford (John Ireland), a member of the James gang who shot their leader…
- Fixed Bayonets (1951)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea
- Brassy Korean War flick with a diminished platoon struggling for survival, and Basehart as the soldier terrified of having leadership thrust upon…
- Pickup On South Street (1953)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Richard Widmark
- Pick–pocket Richard Widmark inadvertently steals a micro–film and becomes a fugitive from both police and spies. Vivid espionage thriller…
- Samuel Fuller Boxset (Pickup on South Street, Forty Guns, Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss) (1953-1964)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
- Samuel Fuller’s quartet of sizzling B–picture masterpieces.
- Hell and High Water (1954)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen…
- Cold war thriller with Widmark helming a submarine in pursuit of a Red freighter.
Unexceptional by Samuel Fuller's usual standards – he was…
- House Of Bamboo (1955)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi…
- Samuel Fuller directs this exciting Tokyo–set noir, about an American army cop who goes undercover to take down an organised crime ring lead by…
- Forty Guns (1957)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger…
- A surreal, somewhat lurid Western set in Tombstone, Arizona pits voluptuous land–baroness Stanwyck against the new, world–weary marshall…
- Run of the Arrow (1957)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Rod Steiger, Brian Keith, Charles Bronson…
- Technicolour western set in the aftermath of the American Civil War, with Confederate veteran Rod Steiger going rogue and joining the Sioux, but…
- China Gate (1957)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson
- In 1954, during the French Indochina War, an Eurasian female smuggler and a group of French Foreign Legion mercenaries, infiltrate the enemy…
- Shock Corridor (1963)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Peter Breck, Constance Towers
- An unsolved slaying in a mental hospital prompts over–ambitious journalist Peter Breck to pose as a 'lunatic', so as to find the killer. Alas,…
- Naked Kiss, The (1964)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley
- Redemptive prostitute Constance Towers assimilates into smalltown USA, only to unwittingly bait trouble and dredge up unspeakable secrets. This…
- American Friend, The (1976)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Bruno Ganz, Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray
- Twisting thriller stars Bruno Ganz as an apparently terminally–ill man duped into murder. Dennis Hopper plays the American 'friend', while…
- Big Red One, The (1980)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Lee Marvin
- The best role in years for Lee Marvin, who plays the intrepid squadron leader of director Sam Fuller's WWII memoirs. Distinctive war film is…
- State of Things, The (1982)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Patrick Bauchau, Samuel Fuller, Roger Corman
- Reliving the personal turmoil of his first American production (HAMMETT), Wenders fashions a scathing yet oddly comedic…
- White Dog (1982)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives…
- A little–seen but widely heralded drama from cult director Samuel Fuller about the struggle of an African–American dog trainer to retrain…
- Return to Salem's Lot, A (1987)
- Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Samuel Fuller, Andrew Duggan…
- Notably weird and disimiliar sequel to SALEM'S LOT is blessed with the talents of writer/director Larry Cohen.
Anthropologist Moriarty is lured…