Eclipse from the Criterion Collection

The First Films of Samuel Fuller

Edition no. 5

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Release Date: Tuesday, 14 August 2007
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $44.95

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I Shot Jesse James | The Baron of Arizona | The Steel Helmet

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Janus Films

Directed by: Samuel Fuller

Featuring: Preston Foster, Vincent Price, Gene Evans, James Bamforth, Ellen Drew, Robert Hutton, John Ireland, Vladimir Sokoloff, Steve Brodie, Reed Hadley, Beulah Bondi, James Edwards, J. Edward Bromberg, Richard Loo, Victor Kilian, Robert Barrat, Sid Melton, Tom Tyler, Robin Short, Richard Monahan, Eddie Dunn, Tina Rome, Harold Fong, Margia Dean, Karen Kester, Neyle Morrow, Byron Foulger, Jonathan Hale, Tom Noonan, Edward Keane

His films have been called raw, outrageous, sensational, and daring. In four decades of directing, Samuel Fuller created a legendarily idiosyncratic oeuvre, examining U.S. history and mythmaking in westerns, film noirs, and war epics. And characteristically, it all began with a bang: after printing the legend with the elegant B-pictures I Shot Jesse James and The Baron of Arizona, he got himself into hot water with the FBI on The Steel Helmet, the first American movie to portray the Korean War. These three independent films showed off Fuller’s genre diversity, gutter wit, and subversive force, and pointed the way to a controversial career in studio moviemaking.

Year: 1949 | 1950 | 1951
Time: 81 | 97 | 84 min.