Research Catalog

Title

Directors in Action: selections from Action, the official magazine of the Directors Guild of America, edited by Bob Thomas. Introd. by Frank Capra.

Author

Thomas, Bob, 1922-2014

Publication

Indianapolis, Merrill [1973]

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Details

Description

x, 283 pages illustrations; 26 cm

Uniform Title

Action!

Subjects

• Motion pictures > Production and direction
• Motion pictures > Production and direction > United States
• Motion picture producers and directors > United States

Contents

I. Orson Welles and Citizen Kane: Citizen Kane remembered. -- Citizen Kane revisited / Arthur Knight. II. Directors at work: Stanley Kubrick / Maurice Rapf. -- Alfred Hitchcock / Bob Thomas. -- Roger Corman / Digby Diehl. -- Don Siegel / Leonard Maltin. -- John Frankenheimer / Russell AuWerter. -- John Schlesinger / William Hall. -- Robert Altman / Russell AuWerter. -- George Stevens / Leonard Maltin. -- Richard Lester / William Hall. -- Gordon Parks / Bob Thomas. -- Mel Brooks / Franklin Heller. III. The director-actor: John Cassavetes / Russell AuWerter. -- Paul Newman / Digby Diehl. -- Jack Lemmon / Bob Thomas. -- A conversation with Carl Reiner and Paul Henreid. -- Director-actors: a partial list. IV. The western: The great dozen: a critique / Judith Crist. -- Sam Peckinpah / Joel Reisner and Bruce Kane. -- Henry Hathaway / Philip K. Scheuer. -- Burt Kennedy interviews John Ford. V. John Ford and Stagecoach: Stagecoach revisited / Arthur Knight. -- John Ford on Stagecoach. -- The story of Stagecoach. -- The company remembers Stagecoach. -- Stagecoach in 1939 and in retrospect / Andrew Sarris. VI. Anatomy of a chase: The French Connection. -- The chase / William Friedkin. VII. The world of the assistant director: Portrait of an assistant director: Peter Scoppa / Norman Goldstein. -- Assistant director/production manager: Chico Day / Bob Thomas. -- Travails of a trainee / Jerry Ziesmer. -- From assistant to director: Wendell Franklin / Bob Thomas. VIII. The first feature: Paul Williams: Out of It . -- Bill Norton: Cisco Pike. -- James Bridges: The Baby Maker. -- Cy Howard: Lovers and Other Strangers. -- Hal Ashby: The Landlord. -- Lawrence Turman: The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker. -- Gilbert Cates: I Never Sang for My Father. -- Dick Richards: The Culpepper Cattle Co. -- Michael Ritchie: Downhill Racer. -- Richard Colla: Zig Zag. -- Notable first features.

ISBN

• 0672517140
• 9780672517143
• 0672517159
• 9780672517150

LCCN

72080807

OCLC

• ocm00749433
• 749433
• SCSB-2019835

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library