He started his career in Hollywood as an editor in 1932. During World War II, he directed documentaries and training films for the US Army Air Corps. Sturges's mainstream directorial career began in 1946 with The Man Who Dared, the first of many B-movies. He made imaginative use of the widescreen CinemaScope format by placing Spencer Tracy alone against a vast desert panorama in the suspense film Bad Day at Black Rock for which he received a Best Director Oscar nomination in 1955. Over the course of his career, Sturges developed a reputation for elevated character-based drama within the confines of genre filmmaking. He was awarded the Golden Boot Award in 1992 for his lifetime contribution to Westerns.
He once met with Akira Kurosawa, who told him that he loved The Magnificent Seven (which was a remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai) and presented him with a samurai sword. Sturges considered this the proudest moment of his professional career.
“The wealth of these data, greatly enhanced by the extension of MESSENGER's primary one-year orbital mission to more than four years, has already enabled and will continue to enable exciting scientific discoveries about Mercury for decades to come.” – Susan Ensor, software engineer at the JohnsHopkinsUniversityApplied Physics Laboratory (APL) ......
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“I think so, they’re so impressed with what our country will become that they decided to do this before the fact.” – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Anheuser-Busch announced the Budweiser name change and rebranding on Tuesday, saying it was repackaging 12-ounce bottles and cans with “America” from May 23 through the November election....
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The insanity that drives those Trumpian winds made me think not of the desert of the 1965 air-shipwreck movie just mentioned, but that of another far more important, if unfairly neglected film, Bad Day at Black Rock directed by JohnSturges a decade earlier ...Spencer Tracy as John J ... The area has served as the location for dozens of Hollywood westerns, from JohnWayne in Blue Steel of 1934 to Johnny Depp in The Lone Ranger of 2013....
This week, in news. Jason Bourne was back this week with a new trailer that takes him to London. Will he be stopping in at Sundance London along the way for some indie goodness? He'll find UK premieres, as well as some Empire curated classics, to pique the interest of the most muscle-bound cineaste ... Defoe de-foes in the DC universe ... Seven up ... Will it live up to JohnSturges’ glorious original? High noon falls on September 23 ... ....
We got an early look at director Antoine Fuqua’s new take on the classic western ensemble. This September, The Magnificent Seven ride again as director Antoine Fuqua takes the reins for an updated take on the 1960JohnSturges western classic (which was, in turn, based on Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, released six years prior) ... RELATED. Watch The Magnificent Seven TeaserTrailer and International Teaser! ... It was glorious ... ....
Today in film news, a movie based on the classic ‘80s sitcom Three’s Company is in the works at New Line, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Abby Kohn and MarcSilverstein, the team responsible for He’s Just Not That Into You, will write the screenplay, though no director is attached ... A remake of the 1960 western by JohnSturges, the film follows a group of mercenaries who help protect a village from an evil industrialist ... Weird life....
The title of this episode is, of course, a nod to JohnSturges's thrilling Western The Magnificent Seven. That film is a testament to the thrills provided by a great cast, chemistry, and a well-told story, and although "The Magnificent Eight" does not reach those same heights, it is the best ...More » ... ....