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An inordinate number of peppers

The early stuff is just as good

Under discussion:

Shock Corridor  (1963)

The Steel Helmet  (1951)

I saw this on Netflix on demand thing. Whatever they're calling it. I'm becoming quite a fan of the service although it only works on a tricked out pc. It's pretty cool to have all this stuff at your disposal and although the selection is still slim, there are gems like this: early Sam Fuller.

If you are not a fan of Sam Fuller, you probably haven't seen enough Sam Fuller. This is from a great Criterion Collection of his early films and it has all the tight structure and controversy of Shock Corridor or Pickup on South Street

If you've never seen a Sam Fuller film, think Quentin Tarantino, but in the 50's. That's doing Fuller a great injustice, but I think fans of the one should become fans of the other. I've always found Fuller's films to be well written. That is mainly why I am drawn to them. He reminds me of Clifford Odets. Fuller should be ranked with John Houston and he's better than Peckinpah at a lot of things. Check out everything you can.

 

posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2007 10:55 PM by quint


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