John Francis Seitz, A.S.C.

American Society of Cinematographers

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 (June 23, 1892 – February 27, 1979) was an American

United States

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 cinematographer

Cinematography

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 and inventor.

He was nominated for seven Academy Awards

Academy Awards

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.

Career

His Hollywood

Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period...

 career began in 1909

1909 in film

The year 1909 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Matsunosuke Onoe, who would become the first superstar of Japanese cinema, appears in his first film, Goban Tadanobu.*James Joyce opens the Volta, the first cinema in Dublin....

 as a lab assistant with the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company in Chicago. He went to work as a lab technician for the American Film Manufacturing Company (known as "Flying A"), also in Chicago.

In 1916

1916 in film

The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 17 - release of A Daughter of the Gods, the first US production with a million dollar budget, with the first nude scene by a major star....

 during the silent era he established himself, achieving great successes with the Rudolph Valentino

Rudolph Valentino

Rudolph Valentino was an Italian actor, and early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik...

 film, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (film)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a 1921 silent movie produced by Metro Pictures Corporation, adapted by June Mathis, directed by Rex Ingram and starring Rudolph Valentino, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Wallace Beery, and Alice Terry...

(1921).

Highly regarded by director

Film director

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 Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age...

, Seitz worked with him on the film noir

Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s...

s Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), and Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard (film)

Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett...

(1950), receiving Academy Award

Academy Awards

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 nominations for each.

During his career he received seven nominations for Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Academy Award for Best Cinematography

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. In 1929 he served as president of the American Society of Cinematographers

American Society of Cinematographers

The American Society of Cinematographers is an educational, cultural, and professional organization. It is not a labor union, and it is not a guild. Membership is by invitation and is extended only to directors of photography and special effects experts with distinguished credits in the film...

 (A.S.C.) for a year, and had been a member since 1923

1923 in film

-Events:*April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1923:U.S.A...

. The A.S.C. named the 2002 Heritage Award after Seitz.

Seitz retired in 1960

1960 in film

The year 1960 in film involved some significant events, with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho the top-grossing release in the U.S.-Events:* April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I...

 and devoted himself to photographic inventions for which he held 18 patent

Patent

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s. An example of a Seitz invention is the matte shot

Matte (filmmaking)

Mattes are used in photography and special effects filmmaking to combine two or more image elements into a single, final image. Usually, mattes are used to combine a foreground image with a background image . In this case, the matte is the background painting...

: a large painting is photographed separately and later added to a scene to expand it, add effects, and/or create a sense of depth in backgrounds. He was also noted for his innovations with low-key lighting, which enhanced the film noir style.

Filmography

• The Quagmire (1916)
• The Ranger of Lonesome Gulch (1916)
• The Bride's Silence (1917)
• The Serpent's Tooth
  The Serpent's Tooth (1917 film)
  The Serpent's Tooth is a 1917 silent film drama starring Gail Kane from the stage and released through the Mutual Film company. A lost film. -Cast:*Gail Kane - Faith Channing*William Conklin - James Winthrop*Edward Peil, Sr. - Jack Stilling...
  
  (1917)
• Whose Wife (1917)
• A Game of Wits (1917)
• The Mate of the Sally Ann (1917)
• Souls in Pawn
  Souls in Pawn
  Souls in Pawn is a 1917 silent film spy-drama directed by Henry King and starring Gail Kane. It was based on a story by Jules Furthman and released by Mutual Film. -Cast:*Gail Kane - Liane Dore*Douglas MacLean - Karl, Prince von Kondermarck...
  
  (1917)
• Up Romance Road (1918)
• Beauty and the Rogue (1918)
• Powers That Prey (1918)
• The Westerners (1919)
• Hearts are Trumps (1920)
• The Sagebrusher (1920)
• Shore Acres (1920)
• Uncharted Seas (1921)
• The Conquering Power (1921)
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (film)
  The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a 1921 silent movie produced by Metro Pictures Corporation, adapted by June Mathis, directed by Rex Ingram and starring Rudolph Valentino, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Wallace Beery, and Alice Terry...
  
  (1921)
• The Prisoner of Zenda
  The Prisoner of Zenda (1922 film)
  The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1922 silent adventure film, one of the many adaptations of Anthony Hope's popular 1894 novel of the same name and the subsequent 1896 play by Hope and Edward Rose.-Plot:...
  
  (1922)
• Trifling Women
  Trifling Women
  Trifling Women was a 1922 silent romantic drama film directed by Rex Ingram. It is credited with boosting the careers of its leads, Barbara La Marr and Ramon Novarro. It has been described as Ingram's most personal film. The film is considered lost.-Plot:...
  
  (1922)
• Turn to the Right (1922)
• Where the Pavement Ends
  Where the Pavement Ends (1923 film)
  Where the Pavement Ends is a silent tropical romance drama directed by Rex Ingram on location in Cuba and starring his wife Alice Terry and Ramón Novarro. The film was produced and distributed by Metro Pictures. It is now considered a lost film....
  
  (1923)
• Scaramouche
  Scaramouche (1923 film)
  Scaramouche is a silent costume adventure based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini, directed by Rex Ingram, released by Metro Pictures, and starring Ramón Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, and Lloyd Ingraham....
  
  (1923)
• The Arab
  The Arab (1924 film)
  The Arab is a silent film starring Ramon Novarro and Alice Terry, written and directed by Rex Ingram, based on a 1911 play by Edgar Selwyn.-Production background:...
  
  (1924)
• Classmates
  Classmates (1924 film)
  Classmates is a silent drama film starring Richard Barthelmess, produced by his company Inspiration Pictures, and distributed by Associated First National Pictures....
  
  (1924)
• The Price of a Party (1924)
• Mare Nostrum
  Mare Nostrum
  Mare Nostrum may refer to:*Mare Nostrum, the Roman term for the Mediterranean Sea, adopted by Italian nationalists and fascists.*Mare Nostrum , a Spanish-language novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez...
  
  (1925)
• The Magician
  The Magician (1926 film)
  The Magician is a 1926 horror film directed by Rex Ingram about a magician's efforts to acquire the blood of a virgin for his experiments to create life.It was adapted by Ingram from the novel The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham...
  
  (1926)
• The Fair Co-Ed
  The Fair Co-Ed
  The Fair Co-Ed is a 1927 silent film comedy starring Marion Davies and released through MGM. The film was produced by William Randolph Hearst, through Cosmopolitan Procuctions and directed by Sam Wood. This film is based on a 1909 play/musical comedy by George Ade which had starred a young Elsie...
  
  (1927)
• Across to Singapore
  Across to Singapore
  Across to Singapore is a 1928 silent film by director William Nigh starring Ramon Novarro and Joan Crawford. The plot involves a love triangle between a woman and two brothers, set on board ship and in Singapore...
  
  (1928)
• The Trail of '98
  The Trail of '98
  The Trail of '98 is a 1928 silent drama film featuring Harry Carey. The film was originally released by MGM in a short-lived widescreen process called Fanthom Screen.-Cast:* Dolores del Río as Berna* Ralph Forbes as Larry* Karl Dane as Lars Petersen...
  
  (1928)
• Outcast (1928)
• The Patsy
  The Patsy (1928 film)
  The Patsy is a 1928 silent comedy/drama film directed by King Vidor, produced and starring Marion Davies for her Cosmopolitan Productions, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
  
  (1928)
• Adoration (1928)
• The Painted Angel (1929)
• The Squall (1929)
• A Most Immoral Lady (1929)
• Hard to Get (1929)
• Careers (1929)
• Her Private Life (1929)
• The Divine Lady
  The Divine Lady
  The Divine Lady is a 1929 Vitaphone sound film with a synchronized musical score and sound effects. The film, however, featured no spoken dialogue. The film tells the story of the love affair between Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton. It stars Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian...
  
  (1929)
• Saturday's Children (1929)
• In the Next Room (1930)
• Back Pay (1930)
• Sweethearts and Wives (1930)
• Murder Will Out (1930)
• The Bad Man
  The Bad Man (1930 film)
  The Bad Man is an all-talking western film starring Walter Huston which was produced and released by Warner Bros. in 1930. The movie is based on Porter Emerson Browne's 1920 play of the same name.-Preservation:...
  
  (1930)
• Road to Paradise (1930)
• Kismet
  Kismet (1930 film)
  Kismet was a 1930 costume drama photographed entirely in an early widescreen process using 65mm film that Warner Bros. called Vitascope. The film was based on Edward Knoblock's play Kismet, and was previously filmed as a silent film in 1920 which also starred Otis Skinner.-Production:Warner Bros....
  
  (1930)
• East Lynne (1931)
• Merely Mary Ann
  Merely Mary Ann
  Merely Mary Ann is a romantic comedy drama film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics Seventh Heaven , Street Angel , and Lucky Star ; Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first...
  
  (1931)
• Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
• Hush Money
  Hush Money
  Hush Money is a 1931 American comedy-drama film featuring Joan Bennett, Hardie Albright, Owen Moore, Myrna Loy, and George Raft. The movie was directed by Sidney Lanfield.-Cast:*Joan Bennett as Joan Gordon*Hardie Albright as Stuart Elliot...
  
  (1931)
• Men of the Sky
  Men of the Sky
  Men of the Sky is a 1931 all-talking musical drama film which was produced by Warner Bros. in 1930 and released in 1931. Filming began in July 1930 and concluded in mid-September. The film is now considered a lost film since no film elements are known to survive. No copies of the film are known to...
  
  (1931)
• Young Sinners (1931)
• The Age for Love (1931)
• The Right of Way (1931)
• Over the Hill (1931)
• Careless Lady (1932)
• The Woman in Room 13 (1932)
• A Passport to Hell (1932)
• She Wanted a Millionaire (1932)
• Six Hours to Live (1932)
• Mr. Skitch (1933)
• Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933)
• Ladies They Talk About
  Ladies They Talk About
  Ladies They Talk About is a 1933 Pre-Code women in prison film about a woman sent to San Quentin. Based on the play Women in Prison by Dorothy Mackaye and Carlton Miles, the film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, and Lillian Roth.-Plot:...
  
  (1933)
• Dangerously Yours (1933)
• Adorable
  Adorable (film)
  Adorable is a 1933 musical comedy film starring Janet Gaynor as a princess who disguises herself to go out and have fun, falling in love with a "commoner" in the process. The movie was written by Billy Wilder, Robert Leibmann, Paul Frank, George Marion, Jr., and Jane Storm, and directed by William...
  
  (1933)
• Marie Galante (1934)
• Springtime for Henry (1934)
• All Men Are Enemies (1934)
• Coming Out Party (1934)
• Curly Top
  Curly Top
  Curly Top is an American musical film directed by Irving Cummings. The screenplay by Patterson McNutt and Arthur J. Beckhard focuses on the adoption of a young orphan by a wealthy bachelor and his romantic attraction to her older sister .Together with The Littlest Rebel, another Temple vehicle,...
  
  (1935)
• Navy Wife (1935)
• Helldorado (1935)
• Our Little Girl (1935)
• Redheads on Parade (1935)
• The Littlest Rebel
  The Littlest Rebel
  The Littlest Rebel is a 1935 American dramatic film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by Edwin J. Burke was adapted from a play of the same name by Edward Peple and focuses on the tribulations of a plantation-owning family during the American Civil War...
  
  (1935)

• One More Spring (1935)
• The Country Doctor (1936)
• 15 Maiden Lane
  15 Maiden Lane
  15 Maiden Lane is a 1936 American crime film about an insurance investigator who infiltrates a gang planning to steal jewels from the eponymous building on Maiden Lane in the Fulton Street District of Manhattan. The neighborhood had been the center of New York City's Diamond District since 1931...
  
  (1936)
• Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
• Captain January (1936)
• Madame X
  Madame X (1937 film)
  Madame X is a drama film, a sanitized remake of several Pre-Code films of the same name. It was directed by Sam Wood with additional direction by Gustav Machatý .-Plot:...
  
  (1937)
• Between Two Women (1937)
• Carnival in Paris (1937)
• Love is a Headache (1937)
• Navy Blue and Gold (1937)
• A Christmas Carol
  A Christmas Carol (1938 film)
  A Christmas Carol is a 1938 American film adaptation of Charles Dickens's novelette.-Cast:*Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge*Gene Lockhart as Bob Cratchit*Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Cratchit*Terry Kilburn as Tiny Tim*Barry MacKay as Fred...
  
  (1938)
• The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn (1938)
• Lord Jeff (1938)
• Stablemates (1938)
• Young Dr. Kildare
  Young Dr. Kildare
  Young Dr. Kildare is a 1938 film starring Lew Ayres as an idealistic but somewhat immature young medical doctor, who benefits greatly from the wise counsel of his mentor, Dr. Gillespie, a seasoned older physician. This was the second of a total of ten Dr...
  
  (1938)
• The Crowd Roars (1938)
• The Hardy's Ride High (1939)
• Thunder Afloat (1939)
• Bad Little Angel (1939)
• Sergeant Madden (1939)
• 6,000 Enemies (1939)
• A Little Bit of Heaven (1940)
• Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)
• Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)
• Sullivan's Travels
  Sullivan's Travels
  Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges. It is a satire about a movie director, played by Joel McCrea, who longs to make a socially relevant drama, but eventually learns that comedies are his more valuable contribution to society. The film features...
  
  (1941)
• Fly-By-Night (1942)
• This Gun for Hire
  This Gun for Hire
  This Gun for Hire is a 1942 film noir, directed by Frank Tuttle and based on the novel A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene. The film stars Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, and Alan Ladd.-Plot:...
  
  (1942)
• This Gun for Hire (1942)
• Lucky Jordan (1942)
• The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
• Five Graves to Cairo
  Five Graves to Cairo
  Five Graves to Cairo is a 1943 World War II film by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. It is one of a number of films based on Lajos Biró's play Színmü négy felvonásban, including Hotel Imperial .-Plot:...
  
  (1943)
• Casanova Brown
  Casanova Brown
  Casanova Brown is a 1944 American romantic comedy film directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Frank Morgan. Written by Thomas Mitchell , Floyd Dell, and Nunnally Johnson, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards: for Best Score , Best Sound, Recording Casanova...
  
  (1944)
• The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
  The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
  The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall...
  
  (1944)
• Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• The Unseen
  The Unseen (1945 film)
  The Unseen is a 1945 film directed by Lewis Allen. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording , and is based on the novel Midnight House by Ethel Lina White. The film was Paramount's follow-up to the film The Uninvited .-Cast:...
  
  (1945)
• The Lost Weekend (1945)
• Home Sweet Homicide
  Home Sweet Homicide
  Home Sweet Homicide is a 1946 American mystery film directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars Peggy Ann Garner, Randolph Scott and Lynn Bari and is based on a mystery novel by Craig Rice....
  
  (1946)
• The Imperfect Lady (1946)
• Calcutta
  Calcutta (1947 film)
  Calcutta is an American crime film noir directed by John Farrow, and written and produced by Seton I. Miller. The drama features Alan Ladd, Gail Russell and William Bendix.-Cast:* Alan Ladd as Neale Gordon* Gail Russell as Virginia Moore...
  
  (1947)
• The Well Groomed Bride (1946)
• Saigon (1947)
• Wild Harvest (1947)
• On Our Merry Way
  On Our Merry Way
  On Our Merry Way is an American comedy film, produced by Benedict Bogeaus and Burgess Meredith, and released by United Artists. At the time of its release, King Vidor and Leslie Fenton were credited with its direction, although the DVD lists John Huston and George Stevens, who assisted with one of...
  
  (1948)
• Night Has a Thousand Eyes
  Night Has a Thousand Eyes
  Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a 1948 film noir, starring Edward G. Robinson and directed by John Farrow. The screenplay was written by Barré Lyndon and Jonathan Latimer. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Cornell Woolrich.- Plot :...
  
  (1948)
• The Big Clock (1948)
• Beyond Glory (1948)
• Chicago Deadline (1949)
• The Great Gatsby
  The Great Gatsby (1949 film)
  The Great Gatsby is a 1949 film made by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Elliott Nugent and produced by Richard Maibaum, from a screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume based on the novel of the same title by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the play by Owen Davis. The music score was by Robert...
  
  (1949)
• Sunset Boulevard
  Sunset Boulevard (film)
  Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett...
  
  (1950)
• Captain Carey, U.S.A.
  Captain Carey, U.S.A.
  Captain Carey, U.S.A. is a 1950 drama film starring Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix, and Francis Lederer. An American returns to post-World War II Italy to bring a traitor to justice.The film was based on the novel No Surrender by Martha Albrand...
  
  (1950)
• Molly (1950)
• Appointment with Danger
  Appointment with Danger
  Appointment with Danger is an American crime film noir directed by Lewis Allen and written by Richard L. Breen and Warren Duff. The drama features Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, among others.-Plot:...
  
  (1951)
• When Worlds Collide
  When Worlds Collide (film)
  When Worlds Collide is a 1951 science fiction film based on the 1933 novel co-written by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer. The film was shot in Technicolor, directed by Rudolph Maté and was the winner of the 1951 Academy Award for special effects....
  
  (1951)
• Dear Brat (1951)
• The Iron Mistress (1952)
• The Savage (1952)
• The San Francisco Story (1952)
• Invaders from Mars
  Invaders from Mars (1953 film)
  Invaders From Mars is a science fiction film directed by William Cameron Menzies, taken from a scenario by Richard Blake, and based on a story treatment by John Tucker Battle who was inspired by a dream recounted by his wife. It was produced independently by Edward L. Alperson Jr. and starred...
  
  (1953)
• Botany Bay (1953)
• Desert Legion (1953)
• Fort Algiers (1953)
• The Rocket Man (1954)
• Rogue Cop
  Rogue Cop
  Rogue Cop is a film noir directed by Roy Rowland, based on the novel by William P. McGivern , and starring Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, and George Raft.-Plot:...
  
  (1954)
• Saskatchewan (1954)
• Many Rivers to Cross (1954)
• The McConnell Story (1955)
• Hell on Frisco Bay (1955)
• A Cry in the Night (1956)
• The Big Land (1956)
• Santiago (1956)
• The Deep Six (1958)
• The Badlanders
  The Badlanders
  The Badlanders is a western film directed by Delmer Daves and starring Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine. It was written by Richard Collins, based upon the novel The Asphalt Jungle by W.R. Burnett.-Plot:...
  
  (1958)
• The Man in the Net
  The Man in the Net
  The Man in the Net is an American film noir starring Alan Ladd and Carolyn Jones. The taut drama was directed by Michael Curtiz.-Plot:...
  
  (1959)
• Island of Lost Women
  Island of Lost Women
  Island of Lost Women is a 71-minute, black-and-white movie, directed by Frank Tuttle, which was released by Warner Brothers in 1959.Its plot borrows from the 1956 science fiction classic Forbidden Planet which, in turn, lifted much of its plot from Shakespeare's The Tempest. Jeff Richards plays...
  
  (1959)
• Guns of the Timberland (1960)

Awards

Nominations

• Academy Awards
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
  : Oscar, Best Cinematography, The Divine Lady; 1930. Note: No official nominees had been announced this year.
• Academy Awards: Oscar, Cinematography, Black-and-White, Five Graves to Cairo; 1944.
• Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Double Indemnity; 1945.
• Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, The Lost Weekend; 1946.
• Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White; Sunset Blvd.; 1951.
• Golden Globes: Golden Globe Award, Best Cinematography, Black and White, Sunset Blvd.
  9th Golden Globe Awards
  The 9th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1951 films, were held on February 21, 1952.-BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE- Drama: Fredric March - Death of a Salesman*Arthur Kennedy - Bright Victory...
  
  ; 1951.
• Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Color; When Worlds Collide, shared with: W. Howard Greene; 1952.
• Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White; Rogue Cop; 1955.

External links

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• John F. Seitz at Film Reference.