Fuller at Fox Film Collection Blu-Ray (import)

Samuel Fuller was a powerful figure in American cinema and a master of B movies, a mass-market filmmaker whose iconoclastic vision elevated American genre cinema to new heights. After the huge success of Steel Helmet, Fuller was signed by Twentieth Century Fox after impressing Darryl F. Zanuck's direct sales pitch (other studios offered Fuller money and tax breaks; Zanuck simply told him, We make better movies. ). Over a six-year period, Fuller would produce some of the best work of his career, an uncompromising series of masterpieces spanning several genres (Western, War film, film noir, Crime-Thriller) that would establish the director as a true auteur, whose influence continues to be felt today.

Here are five films from this fruitful period, all presented from fantastic restorations. The impossibly tense Korean War drama Fixed Bayonets! (1951); the disturbing and confrontational spy thriller Pickup on South Street (1953); the Cold War action film Hell and High Water (1954); the lushly photographed, ice-cold noir House of Bamboo (1955); and the daring western with a feminist twist, Forty Guns (1957). Also included is Samantha Fuller's 2013 documentary, A Fuller Life, featuring friends and admirers of the great director reading excerpts from his memoirs.

 

Subtitles

English

 

Audio

English (DTS 2.0 HD MA)