Phil Karlson
Director
DVD: 'Film Noir Classics: Vol. 1'...and Phillip Pine play L.A. gangsters impressed with Edwards' methods. "Five Against the House," directed by noir specialist Phil Karlson, has a group of Korean War vets planning to rob a Reno gambling joint, with help from Kim Novak. In this article: The Big Heat, San Francisco, The Lineup, William P. McGivern, Fritz Lang, Glenn Ford, Vince Edwards, Martin Scorsese, Ben Casey, and DVD |
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San Jose Mercury News | November 06, 2009
DVDs: 'The Samuel Fuller Collection'
...is padded out with monologues on the dangers of wartime isolationism. "Scandal Sheet" (1952), a noir directed by genre specialist Phil Karlson and adapted from Fuller's novel "The Back Page," has a pleasingly karmic setup: a tabloid...
In this article: Samuel Fuller, Underworld U.S.A, Douglas Sirk, White Dog, Shockproof, James Shigeta, Martin Scorsese, and Parole
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USATODAY.com | November 06, 2009
New on DVD: 'North by Northwest' in beautiful Blu-ray
...five he merely helped to conceive. This said, one of the latter (Douglas Sirk's noir-ish Shockproof from 1949) is decent enough, while Phil Karlson's taut 1952 Scandal Sheet (from a Fuller novel) is better than that. The others: 1937's...
In this article: Blu-ray, Sony, James Ivory, Oscar, Madea Goes to Jail, Ismail Merchant, Claudette Colbert, and Larry David
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | November 03, 2009
DVD: Review:Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics I
...or from the perspective of the law), and each is unusually interested in what men of action talk about during their downtime. Phil Karlson's 1955 heist pic 5 Against The House (based on a Jack Finney novel) is the most conventional of...
In this article: The Lineup, The Big Heat, Fritz Lang, Kerwin Mathews, DVD, The Sniper, Glenn Ford, Brian Keith, and Eli Wallach
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DVD: Review:The Samuel Fuller Collection
...truthful stories about crime reporting ever published. The 1952 film version Scandal Sheet-directed by B-movie master Phil Karlson-is almost a counter to Power Of The Press, replacing the former's gentleman hero with a sweaty,...
In this article: Samuel Fuller, Shockproof, Scandal Sheet, Richard Dix, Hollywood, Underworld U.S.A, Douglas Sirk, and DVD
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Wikipedia | October 04, 2009
The Brothers Rico
The Brothers Rico (1957 ) is a American crime film noir directed by Phil Karlson and written by Lewis Meltzer, Ben Perry, and Dalton Trumbo, based on a story written by Georges Simenon, a French detective-story specialist. The drama features...
In this article: The Brothers Rico, Richard Conte, James Darren, Larry Gates, and Georges Simenon
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Kansas City Confidential
Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 film noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring John Payne . Karlson and Payne teamed up a year later for another noir , titled 99 River Street, followed by a 1955 color film, Hell's Island.
In this article: Kansas City Confidential, John Payne, Scandal Sheet, Jack Elam, Hell's Island, 99 River Street, and Lee Van Cleef
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Phil Karlson
...in the early 1950s. Other films include Rocky '' (1948), ''The Phenix City Story (1955) and ''The Young Doctors '' (1961). Phil Karlson was the son of popular Irish actress Lillian O'Brien. He studied painting at Chicago's Art Institute...
In this article: Walking Tall, Elvis Presley, Loyola Marymount University, Art Institute, Kid Galahad, Hell's Island, 99 River Street, Kansas City Confidential, and Ladies of the Chorus
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Telegraph.co.uk - Obituaries | August 19, 2009
Ric Hardman
...people in Hollywood to reduce the tyrannical film mogul Harry Cohn to tears. Published: 4:00PM BST 19 Aug 2009 "When director Phil Karlson screened a rough cut of Gunman's Walk early in 1958, Columbia's Harry Cohn wept at the final...
In this article: Harry Cohn, Tab Hunter, The Sunday Telegraph, Henry Fonda, Hollywood, and Academy Award
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New York Times | June 30, 2008
Critic's Choice: New DVDs: 'Mishima' and 'Framed'
...the last of the old-school films noirs. Three principal members of its creative team were part of the genre's prime: the director Phil Karlson ("99 River Street," 1953), the producer and screenwriter Mort Briskin ("Quicksand," 1950), the...
In this article: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Framed, Paul Schrader, Yukio Mishima, Norman Mailer, The Criterion Collection, Ken Ogata, and Joe Don Baker
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www.washingtonpost.com | January 13, 2007
The Japanese Soldier, a Casualty of War Films
...the business. Far more surprising are two littler films, made at the bottom half of the studio production spectrum. The first is Phil Karlson's "Hell to Eternity," of 1960, which for my money is the unacknowledged classic of the Pacific...
In this article: Guy Gabaldon, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Clint Eastwood, Jeffrey Hunter, DVD, Beach Red, and Alec Guinness
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Phil Karlson (July 2, 1908 - December 12, 1985) was a Chicago-born film director known for his no-nonsense film noir. Karlson directed 99 River Street, Kansas City Confidential and Hell's Island all with actor John Payne in the early 1950s. Other films include The Phenix City Story (1955) and The Young Doctors (1961).
Phil Karlson was the son of popular Irish actress Lillian O'Brien.
He studied painting at Chicago's Art Institute, and law, at his father's request, at Loyola Marymount University in California.
Karlson got into the film industry working as a prop man while a law student. After working a number of film jobs, including being an assistant director for a number of Abbott and Costello films, Karlson directed his first film in 1944 and in 1948 directed the first film starring Marylin Monroe, Ladies of the Chorus. He worked on a number of low-budget projects for Monogram Pictures and Eagle-Lion Films before making his mark in 1950. It was then that he was known for directing tough, realistic and sometimes violent gritty crime films. In the 1960s the quality of his directed films declined, which included working on Kid Galahad (1962) with Elvis Presley and two Dean Martin Matt Helm spy films. He had his biggest success in 1973 when he directed the hit film, Walking Tall. The film made the director a rich man many times over, thanks to the fact that he owned a large part of the movie.
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