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Endfield |
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| Director
/ Screenwriter / Producer |
| 1914 - 1995 |
| Born November 10,
Scranton, Pennsylvannia, USA |
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Key Production Country: UK |
| Key Genres:
Crime Drama, Crime, Historical Epic |
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Collaborators: Stanley
Baker (Actor/Producer), Lloyd Bridges (Leading Player), Ernest Archer (Production Designer) |
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Highly Recommended: Try
and Get Me! (1951), Hell Drivers (1958) |
| Recommended: Zulu
(1964) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [ Guardian
Article (1999) ] [
Screen Online Biography ] [
Wikipedia ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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250 Quintessential Noir Films:
Try and Get Me! (1951) |
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"From
Joe Palooka to the Marquis de Sade is an eventful journey,
especially with Tarzan and Welsh soldiers fighting Zulus along
the way. Endfield had a very respectable grounding in the
American theatre. From Yale and the New Theatre School he became
a producer and a drama teacher. After the war, he went into
movies as a writer and then took up direction. He was compelled
to leave America during the McCarthy period and worked in
England uncredited or under a pseudonym." -
David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002) |
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"Working in
Britain, at first under the double cloak of a pseudonym and the
tag of 'supervising director', Endfield soon revealed taste -
and talent - for raw, red-blooded action, whether it was on the
battlefield or in man-to-man fist-fights. His partnership with
actor Stanley Baker produced some hard-man movies that
culminated in the pulsating action of Zulu." - David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Illustrated Guide to Film Directors, 1999) |
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"He
began attracting attention in 1950-51 with two taut, atmospheric
suspense yarns, The Underworld Story and The Sound of
Fury/Try and Get Me, but was identified as a Communist
before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951 and
was forced by Hollywood's blacklisting to work in England under
pseudonyms or with no screen credit." - (The
MacMillan International Film Encyclopedia, 1994) |
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"Often a maker of solid, if undistinguished, actioners. Endfield
occasionally handled distinctive material (Zulu, 64)." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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