6 Movies Directed by Samuel Fuller

The Steel Helmet

The Steel Helmet

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1951-02-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (2401 Reviews)

Director:

Samuel Fuller

Fullplot:

During the Korean War, strong but worn and cantankerous Sergeant Zack is aided by a young, orphaned Korean boy. Together they encounter and join a small group of American soldiers. The group stumbles upon a Buddhist temple where they decide to hold up, believing it to be empty...

Pickup on South Street

Pickup on South Street

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1953-08-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

80 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (8535 Reviews)

Director:

Samuel Fuller

Cast:

Writer:

Samuel Fuller (screenplay)

Dwight Taylor (story)

Fullplot:

On a crowded subway, Skip McCoy picks the purse of Candy. Among his take, although he does not know it at the time, is a piece of top-secret microfilm that was being passed by Candy's consort, a Communist agent. Candy discovers the whereabouts of the film through Moe Williams, a police informer. She attempts to seduce McCoy to recover the film. She fails to get back the film and falls in love with him. The desperate agent exterminates Moe and savagely beats Candy. McCoy, now goaded into action, confronts the agent in a particularly brutal fight in a subway.

Hell and High Water

Hell and High Water

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1954-02-06

Languages:

English, French, Italian, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (975 Reviews)

Director:

Samuel Fuller

Cast:

Writer:

Jesse Lasky Jr. (screenplay)

Samuel Fuller (screenplay)

David Hempstead (story)

Fullplot:

A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.

Shock Corridor

Shock Corridor

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-09-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (7261 Reviews)

Director:

Samuel Fuller

Genres:

DramaMystery

Fullplot:

Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his girlfriend, he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem ...

The Big Red One

The Big Red One

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-05-28

Languages:

English, French, Italian, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (14608 Reviews)

Director:

Samuel Fuller

Genres:

DramaWar

Fullplot:

The story of a hardened army Sergeant and four of his men from their first fight at the Kasserine Pass after the invasion of North Africa through to the invasion of Sicily, D-Day, the Ardennes forest and the liberation of a concentration camp at the end of the war. As the five of them fight - and survive to fight yet again in the next battle - new recruits joining the squad are swatted down by the enemy on a regular basis. The four privates are naturally reluctant to get to know any of the new recruits joining the squad, who become just a series of nameless faces.

Thieves After Dark

Thieves After Dark

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-04-25

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

98 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (94 Reviews)

Director:

Samuel Fuller

Cast:

Writer:

Olivier Beer (novel)

Olivier Beer (adaptation)

Samuel Fuller (adaptation)

Anne Dutter (translation: French)

Georges Dutter (translation: French)

Fullplot:

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