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Samuel Fuller
Director 1912 - 1997

Samuel Fuller

Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American screenwriter, novelist and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes. He was born Samuel Michael Fuller in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Benjamin Rabinovitch, a... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

22 titles
Street of No Return

Street of No Return

Samuel Fuller 1989 1h 33m 7.0

A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him.

White Dog

White Dog

Samuel Fuller 1982 1h 30m 8.2

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to kill Black people.

The Big Red One

The Big Red One

Samuel Fuller 1980 1h 53m 7.3

A veteran sergeant of the World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivors Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.

Shark!

Shark!

Samuel Fuller 1969 1h 32m 1.0

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.

The Naked Kiss

The Naked Kiss

Samuel Fuller 1964 1h 33m 7.4

Kelly (Towers) is a prostitute who shows up in the small town of Grantville, just one more burg in a long string of quick stops on the run after being chased out of the big city by her former pimp.

Shock Corridor

Shock Corridor

Samuel Fuller 1963 1h 42m 7.9

With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.

Merrill's Marauders

Merrill's Marauders

Samuel Fuller 1962 1h 38m 8.5

Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.

Underworld U.S.A.

Underworld U.S.A.

Samuel Fuller 1961 1h 39m 8.0

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

Verboten!

Verboten!

Samuel Fuller 1959 1h 33m 7.6

A young American serviceman, stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his..

The Crimson Kimono

The Crimson Kimono

Samuel Fuller 1959 1h 22m 7.3

Two detectives clash over the hunt for a burlesque dancer’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.

Run of the Arrow

Run of the Arrow

Samuel Fuller 1957 1h 26m 9.0

A veteran leaves the army, and finds a home with the Sioux.

Forty Guns

Forty Guns

Samuel Fuller 1957 1h 20m 8.2

An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.

China Gate

China Gate

Samuel Fuller 1957 1h 37m 6.0

Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.

House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo

Samuel Fuller 1955 1h 42m 7.5

Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan), a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals. They use their muscle to take over Tokyo's pachinko racket and commit a series of train robberies, targeting deliveries of military ammunition.

Hell and High Water

Hell and High Water

Samuel Fuller 1954 1h 43m 5.3

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.

Pickup on South Street

Pickup on South Street

Samuel Fuller 1953 1h 20m 7.5

A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.

Park Row

Park Row

Samuel Fuller 1952 1h 23m 8.0

In New York's 1880's newspaper district a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.

The Steel Helmet

The Steel Helmet

Samuel Fuller 1951 1h 25m

A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.

Fixed Bayonets!

Fixed Bayonets!

Samuel Fuller 1951 1h 32m 8.0

The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one, Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.

The Baron of Arizona

The Baron of Arizona

Samuel Fuller 1950 1h 37m 6.0

The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.

I Shot Jesse James

I Shot Jesse James

Samuel Fuller 1949 1h 21m 8.0

Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self-disgust.

V-E +1

V-E +1

Samuel Fuller 1945 21m

The silent 16 mm footage that makes up "V-E +1" documents the burial of beaten and emaciated Holocaust victims found by Allied forces in the Nazi concentration camp at Falkenau, Czechoslovakia, as World War II ended in Europe.

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