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| Jacques
Tourneur |
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| Director |
| 1904 - 1977 |
| Born November 12,
Paris, France |
| Key
Production Country: USA |
| Key Genres:
Thriller, Horror, Action |
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Collaborators: Albert
S. D'Agostino (Production Designer), Roy Webb (Composer), Val Lewton
(Producer), Mark Robson (Editor), Jack Okey
(Production Designer), Walter E. Keller (Production Designer), Dana
Andrews (Leading Player), Virginia Mayo (Leading Player), Tom Conway
(Leading Player), Ardel Wray (Screenwriter) |
| Highly Recommended: Out
of the Past (1947), Night of the Demon (1957) |
| Recommended: Cat
People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), The Flame and the Arrow
(1950), Great Day in the Morning
(1956), Nightfall (1956) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [
Film Reference ]
[ Classic
Film and Television Page ] [ Tourneur
Profile ] [ Bright
Lights Feature on "Out of the Past" ] [
Film Comment
Article
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Slant Magazine Article ] [
Screen Online Biography ] |
| Books: [
Jacques
Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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| 1,000
Greatest Films: Cat
People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Canyon Passage (1946), Out
of the Past (1947), Night of the Demon (1957) |
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250 Quintessential Noir Films:
Out of the Past (1947), Berlin Express (1948), Nightfall (1956) |
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"Jacques
Tourneur, son of the late Maurice Tourneur, brings a certain
French gentility to the American cinema...Tourneur's first films
for Val Lewton - Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie
- possessed a subtler dramatic force than those of
Wise
and
Robson.
Out of the Past is still Tourneur's masterpiece, a
civilized treatment of an annihilating melodrama...All in all,
Tourneur's career represents a triumph of taste over force." - Andrew
Sarris (The American Cinema, 1968) |
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"The
best pictures which he directed were those of suspense and
genuine terror, though he also did well with those that had a
great deal of action. He wisely resisted scenes with long
patches of dialogue. When confronted with such scenes, he
typically frowned and said, "It sounds so corny." -
DeWitt Bodeen (The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia, 1998) |
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"Never
a major director, Jacques Tourneur nonetheless possessed an
unassertive and eloquent visual style that enabled him to
transform decent scripts into superior films. Although much of
his work was in the B-movie field, his subtle inventiveness and
unerring taste frequently made for intelligent entertainment." - Geoff
Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989) |
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"Perhaps the gentlest director of action films in Hollywood
history. His early reputation was made with, eerie, subtle,
intelligent, Val Lewton-produced horror thrillers (Cat People,
42; I Walked with a Zombie, 43). He brought out the
little things which add up to humanity in his characters, good
or bad, and knew how to employ expressive lighting and camera
movement when necessary." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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