The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Jul 2, 2002

1h 0m

★ 5.8

Overview

Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

Production Companies

Turner Classic Movies

Lorac Productions

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller Trailers

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Cast

Self

Samuel Fuller

Narrator (voice)

Sydney Pollack

Jesse James (archive footage)

Reed Hadley

Bob Ford (archive footage)

John Ireland

Sgt. Zack / Phineas Mitchell (archive footage)

Gene Evans

Candy (archive footage)

Jean Peters

Skip McCoy (archive footage)

Richard Widmark

Moe Williams (archive footage)

Thelma Ritter

Joey (archive footage)

Richard Kiley

Lt. Driscoll (archive footage)

Ralph Meeker

Pvt. O'Meara (archive footage)

Rod Steiger

Jessica Drummond (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck

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