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Irving Glassberg
Irving Glassberg, A.S.C. (19 October 1906 – 9 September 1958) was a Polish-American cinematographer, who worked on many Universal Pictures during the forties and fifties. Glassberg, along with Arthur Lubin Arthur Lubin (July 25, 1898 – May 11, 1995) was an American film director and producer who directed several ''Abbott & Costello'' films, '' Phantom of the Opera'' (1943), the '' Francis the Talking Mule'' series and created the talking-horse TV ... was responsible for getting Clint Eastwood into the movies.McGilligan (1999), p.52 Partial filmography References Bibliography * External links * 1906 births 1958 deaths Polish cinematographers Polish emigrants to the United States American people of Polish-Jewish descent {{cinematographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backlash (1956 Film)
''Backlash'' is a 1956 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Richard Widmark and Donna Reed. It was directed by John Sturges (with whom Widmark would also make another Western '' The Law and Jake Wade''), and unfolds in the vein of the psychological Western (a subgenre that has yielded many films, e.g. those of Anthony Mann, with whose films this bears comparison). It delivers an unconventional story, written by Borden Chase, that sometimes crosses into film noir, as a colorful cast of supporting characters help or hinder the protagonist during the unfolding of its central mystery. ''Backlash'' was filmed on location at Old Tucson Studios. Plot Jim Slater (Richard Widmark) meets Karyl Orton ( Donna Reed) in Gila Valley, Arizona. She thinks that he is searching for a gold cache believed to be hidden somewhere in the valley. When a man with a rifle starts shooting at him, Jim wonders if she can be trusted. After Jim kills his foe, he discovers the dead man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flesh And Fury
''Flesh and Fury'' is a 1952 American film noir drama sport film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Tony Curtis, Jan Sterling and Mona Freeman. at Plot Boxing fan Sonya Bartow and manager Pop Richardson are both impressed the first time they see amateur Paul Callan win a fight. They are more amazed, and Sonya somewhat appalled, when they discover later that Paul is deaf. Pop agrees to train him, even though he's still not quite over the death in the ring of a former protege. A romantic relationship begins with Sonya, but she refuses to marry Paul until he's a champion. She impatiently pushes Pop to set up a title fight, even if he is not ready yet. When a reporter, Ann Hollis, comes ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Duel At Silver Creek
''The Duel at Silver Creek'' is a 1952 American Western film directed by Don Siegel; his first film in the Western genre. It starred Stephen McNally, Audie Murphy and Faith Domergue. It was the first time Murphy had appeared in a film where he played a character who was good throughout the movie.Don Graham, ''No Name on the Bullet: The Biography of Audie Murphy'', Penguin, 1989 p 228 The working titles of the film were Claim Jumpers and Hair Trigger Kid. Plot Luke Cromwell, aka the "Silver Kid" (Audie Murphy), loses his father to mining claim jumpers. He is deputised by Marshal Lightning Tyrone (Stephen McNally) of Silver City, who wants to defeat the claim jumpers. The two men fall for different women, Tyrone for the treacherous Opal Lacey ( Faith Domergue), who is secretly in league with the claim jumpers, and Cromwell with tomboy Dusty Fargo (Susan Cabot) who pursues Lightning. Cast * Audie Murphy as Luke Cromwell – The Silver Kid * Faith Domergue as Opal Lacey * Stephen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Castle
''The Black Castle'' is a 1952 American horror film directed by Nathan H. Juran and starring Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Stephen McNally, Rita Corday and Lon Chaney Jr. It was produced by William Alland. The film was made in the United States but premiered in Sweden.Stephen Jacobs, ''Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster'', Tomahawk Press 2011 p 359-360 Plot Sir Ronald Burton, a British gentleman, investigates the disappearance of two of his friends at the Austrian estate of the sinister Count von Bruno. Bruno secretly seeks revenge against the leaders of a British force that set the natives against him in colonial Africa: Burton's missing friends are among Bruno's victims, and Burton is now also in the trap. Burton plans to escape with Bruno's abused Countess, but the Count's henchmen bar the way. Cast * Richard Greene as Sir Ronald Burton, alias Richard Beckett * Boris Karloff as Dr. Meissen * Stephen McNally as Count Carl von Bruno * Rita Corday as Countess Elga von Bruno ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lawless Breed
''The Lawless Breed'' is a 1953 American Technicolor Western biographical film produced and distributed by Universal-International, directed by Raoul Walsh, and starring Rock Hudson and Julie Adams. The film is a romanticized story based on the life of outlaw John Wesley Hardin. Plot Wild West gunslinger and gambler John Wesley Hardin (Rock Hudson) is pardoned and released from Huntsville, Texas prison in 1896, after serving 16 years of a 25-year sentence. He delivers a manuscript of his life, written during his incarceration, to a local printer, in the hopes of it being printed. The film's story is presented mostly as flashbacks, as the autobiography recounts Hardin's exploits outside the law. It tells of an upbringing by his preacher father (John McIntire), and his first love Jane (Mary Castle); in his reckless youth he find solace from his complicated home life in gambling. However he is introduced to the outlaw life when he shoots a man (Michael Ansara) in self-defense du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mississippi Gambler (1953 Film)
''The Mississippi Gambler'' is a 1953 American Western film directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Tyrone Power. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Sound Recording (Leslie I. Carey). This film was the third Universal Studios film to bear this title—though with a different plot each time, the others being '' The Mississippi Gambler'' (1929) and '' Mississippi Gambler'' (1942). Plot Mark Fallon persuades professional gambler "Kansas John" Polly to teach him the trade. As they board a riverboat bound for New Orleans, Kansas John advises him to be wary of F. Montague Caldwell, an unscrupulous riverboat gambler. Mark makes the acquaintance of two fellow passengers, attractive Angelique Dureau and her brother Laurent. Laurent loses a great deal of money at cards. He gives Mark a valuable diamond necklace to redeem his gambling IOUs. When Mark learns that it is Angelique's, he offers it back to her, but she angrily declines. Caldwell hires some men to ambush and rob Mark, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walking My Baby Back Home (film)
''Walking My Baby Back Home'' is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, and Buddy Hackett. It was Hackett's film debut. Excerpts of the film are used in the '' Columbo'' episode " Forgotten Lady", in which Leigh plays a middle aged former film star Grace Wheeler who nostalgically watches the film. Donald O'Connor enjoyed working with Janet Leigh. She hadn't danced in years but was a real trouper. Nine times out of 10 we'd do all those beautiful dance routines on cement, and she got very tired, started falling a lot on her knees. And her knees started to swell three times their normal size. It was very painful. On the screen you can't tell how she was suffering in that darn thing. Plot A World War II veteran joins a minstrel show and falls in love with the daughter of the troupe's patriarch. Cast *Donald O'Connor as Clarence "Jigger" Miller *Janet Leigh as Chris Hall *Buddy Hackett as Blimp Edwards *Lori Nelson a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Border River
''Border River'' is a 1954 American Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo and Pedro Armendáriz. Plot During the US Civil War, Clete Mattson arrives in Zona Libre, a small territory across the river from the United States. Ruled by ruthless General Calleja, it offers sanctuary to outlaws. Mattson wants to buy guns for the Confederacy, using gold stolen from the Union. Cast * Joel McCrea as Clete Mattson * Yvonne De Carlo as Carmelita Carias * Pedro Armendáriz as General Calleja (as Pedro Armendariz) * Alfonso Bedoya as Captain Vargas * Howard Petrie as Newlund * Renate Hoy as Annina Strasser (as Erika Nordin) * George J. Lewis as Sanchez * Nacho Galindo as Lopez * Ivan Triesault as Baron Von Hollden * George Wallace as Fletcher * Lane Chandler as Anderson * Martin Garralaga as Guzman * Joe Bassett as Stanton * Salvador Baguez as General Robles * Felipe Turich as Pablo Production Joel McCrea and Yvonne de Carlo's casting was anno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ride Clear Of Diablo
''Ride Clear of Diablo'' is a 1954 American Technicolor Western film directed by Jesse Hibbs starring Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Susan Cabot and Abbe Lane. made for Universal Pictures. Cabot and Murphy had appeared in two films together previously. at Audie Murphy Memorial Site Plot Sheriff Fred Kenyon ( Paul Birch) and lawyer Tom Meredith (William Pullen) conspire to have dance hall girl Kate () entertain the hired hands of the O'Mara ranch whilst the Sheriff and the lawyer rustle the O'Mar ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Joins The WACS
''Francis Joins the WACS'' is a 1954 American black-and-white comedy film from Universal-International, produced by Ted Richmond, directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Donald O'Connor, Julie Adams, ZaSu Pitts, Mamie Van Doren and Chill Wills in two roles, including that of the distinctive voice of Francis in voice-over. This is the fifth film in Universal-International's Francis the Talking Mule series. Plot A computer error mistakenly assigns junior officer Peter Stirling to the Women's Army Corps. Peter's old friend Francis helps him through his various military and personal problems, including several familiar stays in the base's psychiatric ward. Cast *Donald O'Connor as Peter Stirling *Julie Adams as Captain Jane Parker (as Julia Adams) *Mamie Van Doren as Corporal Bunky Hilstrom * Chill Wills as General Benjamin Kaye / voice of Francis *Lynn Bari as Major Louise Simpson *ZaSu Pitts as Lieutenant Valerie Humpert. Pitts played the same character in the first film of the ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Shield Of Falworth
''The Black Shield of Falworth'' is a 1954 American Technicolor film from Universal-International, produced by Robert Arthur and Melville Tucker and directed by Rudolph Maté. It stars Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar, Herbert Marshall, and Torin Thatcher. The screenplay, set in Medieval England, was adapted by Oscar Brodney and is based on Howard Pyle's 1891 novel '' Men of Iron''. The original music score was composed by Hans J. Salter although his name does not appear in the screen credits. The only musical notation is given as: "Music Supervision by Joseph Gershenson". Made Universal's music department head in 1940, Gershenson's name appeared on nearly every film made by that studio from 1949-1969. The film was Universal-International's first feature made in CinemaScope. It opened in New York City's Times Square on October 6, 1954 at the Loew's State Theater. It was the second of five feature films in which husband and wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh appeared togeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |