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John Sturges
Producer 1910 - 1992

John Sturges

Oak Park, Illinois, USA

John Eliot Sturges was an American film director. His movies include Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963) and Ice Station Zebra (1968).

Filmography

Every title this person produced

6 titles
Valdez il mezzosangue

Valdez il mezzosangue

John Sturges, Duilio Coletti 1973 1h 38m 6.0

A runaway teenager and a mixed-race horse breeder strike an unlikely friendship in the context of common hardships.

Hour of the Gun

Hour of the Gun

John Sturges 1967 1h 40m 5.5

Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.

The Satan Bug

The Satan Bug

John Sturges 1965 1h 54m 5.0

The Satan Bug (1965) is a science fiction film in which a US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.

The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail

John Sturges 1965 2h 45m 5.5

A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.

The Great Escape

The Great Escape

John Sturges 1963 2h 53m 8.3

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocates them to a high-security "escape-proof" camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven

John Sturges 1960 2h 8m 7.9

The Magnificent Seven is a western film from John Sturges and a remake of the Akira Kurosawa's film The Seven Samurai from 1954.

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