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Winner of Best Non-Fiction for 2002 Award from the Los Angeles
Times Book Review! Samuel Fuller was one of the most prolific and
independent writer-director-producers in Hollywood. His 29 tough,
gritty films made from 1949 to 1989 set out to capture the truth of
war, racism and human frailties, and incorporate some of his own
experiences. His film Park Row was inspired by his years in the New
York newspaper business, where his beat included murders, suicides,
state executions and race riots. He writes about hitchhiking across
the country at the height of the Great Depression. His years in the
army in World War II are captured in his hugely successful pictures
The Big Red One, The Steel Helmet and Merrill's Marauders. Fuller's
other films include Pickup on South Street; Underworld U.S.A., a
movie that shows how gangsters in the 1960s were seen as
"respected" tax-paying executives; Shock Corridor, which exposed
the conditions in mental institutions; and White Dog, written in
collaboration with Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential), a film so
controversial that Paramount's then studio heads Jeffrey Katzenberg
and Michael Eisner refused to release it. In addition to his work
in film, Samuel Fuller (1911-1997) wrote eleven novels. He lived in
Los Angeles with his wife and their daughter. A Third Face was
completed by Jerome Henry Rudes, Fuller's longtime friend, and his
wife, Christa Lang Fuller. "Fuller wasn't one for tactful
understatement and his hot-blooded, incident-packed autobiography
is accordingly blunt ... A Third Face is a grand, lively,
rambunctious memoir." - Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Fuller's
last work is a joy and an important addition to film and popular
cultureliterature." - Publishers Weekly "If you don't like the
films of Sam Fuller, then you just don't like cinema." - Martin
Scorsese, from the book's introduction
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Sophie Millns; Edited by Bridget Wilkins; Samuel Fuller
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Five young infantrymen are seen led by their sergeant across the
battlefields of half Europe during World War II, from the arid
landscapes of Vichy in French Africa to Europe and the beaches of
Normandy, on the day D, going through the assault on Mons in
Belgium, the Battle of Crucifix Hill in Germany and ended by the
crossing of the Siegfried Line on January 19, 1945, where the war
ends for them. Â
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