Sam Fuller

 

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion. Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express... Samuel Fuller

A pure artist... so direct he seemed simplistic to those unwilling to look closer. Famously, and accurately, dubbed an "American primitive" by Andrew Saris.

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House Of Bamboo (DVD)    1955
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
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Director Samuel Fuller presents this noirish thriller set in post-World War II Tokyo. After organizing a robbery that results in the murder of an American GI, gang leader Sandy encounters mysterious former serviceman Eddie. Secretly infiltrating the criminal syndicate to find the culprit responsible for his comrade's death, Eddie quickly rises to prominence—setting the stage for a dramatic confrontation with Sandy. Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi star. 102 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital Surround, French Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish; audio commentary; newsreel footage; theatrical trailers.

Cast:Fred Dale, Brad Dexter, John Doucette, Biff Elliot, Sandro Giglio, Peter Gray, Elko Hanabusa, Sessue Hayakawa, Frank Iwanaga, Harry Carey Jr., Robert Kino, Frank Kumagai, Cameron Mitchell, Rollin Moriyama, Neyle Morrow, Robert Quarry, Robert Ryan, Reiko Sato, Teru Shimada, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi

 

Girls In Prison (DVD)    1994
Buena Vista DVD / Region 1 (USA)
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Directed by John McNaughton. Written by Samuel Fuller & Christa Lang. Starring Ione Skye and Anne Heche. Campy remake of 1956 exploitation classic; one of several 1990s SHOWTIME remakes of Samuel Z. Arkoff 1950s exploitation films. Notable for the overwrought screenplay by all-time maverick director Fuller which was then directed against the grain in colorful, cartoony fashion. Fuller was such a nut that it's hard to tell if the script was serious or parody, but the director probably felt is was a satire. It's a fine line… the "women in prison" genre is difficult to parody, since a key trait of the genre is that everything's exaggerated. "Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life behind bars in a hellish women's prison where she is befriended by other "lifer" inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does."
 
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