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  Samuel Fuller
Mayflower passenger Samuel Fuller was born in England in 1580 and was part of the Separatist community in Leiden.
Samuel Fuller was the brother of Edward Fuller, another Mayflower passenger.
Samuel Fuller died in 1633, one of at least 10 people in Plymouth Colony who died during a smallpox epidemic.
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  Samuel Fuller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fuller began, from a very young age, in the field of journalism, becoming a crime reporter in New York City at age 17.
Fuller's work throughout the 1950s and early 1960s followed a basic format: lower-budget genre movies, deeply informed by his personal experiences, that nonetheless tended to explore controversial topics.
Although Fuller's films were not considered great achievements at the time of their release, they began to gain more respect starting in the late 1960s.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Samuel Fuller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Samuel Fuller, born in England, was baptized in the parish of Redenhall in Harleston, County of Norfolk, 20 January 1580.
Samuel Fuller was one of the band of Pilgrims that fled from England to Leyden, Holland, in 1609.
Samuel Fuller was a deacon of the church in Leyden and later in Plymouth.
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 Samuel Fuller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Samuel Fuller was born and baptized in Redenhall, Norfolk, England, the son of a butcher.
Samuel Fuller was one of the original members of the Pilgrims church, and fled England for Holland in 1609.
Samuel Fuller died in the 1633 epidemic at Plymouth.
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 Chicago Reader Movie Review
Later in the book Fuller wrote, "During the final months of [script] revision, [my wife] Christa told me I'd have terrible nightmares, screaming out unintelligible phrases in the middle of the night." He also revealed that he'd had these nightmares about his combat experiences for much of his life.
A man who combined a profoundly pessimistic view of mankind with a singular gusto for life, Fuller was often misunderstood by people who had only his ambiguous movies and their frequently oafish heroes to go by.
Fuller's stint in the Big Red One took him to North Africa, Sicily, England, France, Belgium, Germany, and Czechoslovakia, where he helped liberate a concentration camp in Falkenau and shot his first film footage, on a 16-millimeter camera.
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 Samuel Fuller: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Samuel Fuller (August 12 1911 - October 30 1997) was an American American quick summary:
Fuller's journalistic background and his early beginnings as a pulp-fiction writer have informed his film work, EHandler: no quick summary.
Shot in just 20 days, pickup on south street is samuel fullers 1953 film noir released by the 20th century fox studio....
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 Samuel Fuller Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net
Fuller's right-wing noir movie PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953) was ambiguous in its ideology and the thriller WHITE DOG (1982), dealing with the subject of racism, was unjustly prevented a proper release.
In Europe Fuller's films were shown in several retrospectives and in 1986 Fuller was the first guest of honour at Sodankylä film festival in Finland - the legendary visit is still remembered in Lapland.
Fuller was an accomplished photographer and his still images of Manhattan, the East River docks, immigrants, Lucky Luciano, Ella Fitzgerald and others were collected in NEW YORK IN THE 1930s (1997).
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 Samuel FULLER Sr.
Samuel Fuller (Son of Edward Fuller) Samuel was born in 1612, before the Mayflower sailed, so he would have been a child of eight during the voyage.
Samuel Fuller, "the younger," shared in the division of lands in the colony, in 1623, receiving three acres on the south side of the "town brook, to the woodward," including what is now Watsons Hill.
Samuel (I)(Son of Edward) was born around 1612 and was a child of eight during the voyage of the Mayflower in 1620.
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 Definition of Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller (August 12 1911 - October 30 1997) was an American film director.
Fuller's journalistic background and his early beginnings as a pulp-fiction writer have informed his film work, particularly Park Row (1952), Shock Corridor (1963) and The Naked Kiss (1965).
Fuller's style has been described as "primitive", a quality that has served him well in a series of war and adventure films The Steel Helmet (1950), Fixed Bayonets (1951), Hell and High Water (1954), China Gate (1957), Merrill's Marauders (1962).
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 MayflowerHistory.com
Samuel Fuller has been generally identified as the son of Robert Fuller, baptized on 20 January 1580 at Redenhall, Norfolk.
The counter-evidence is primarily that the ages for the Fullers appear to be too old, when compared to their marriage dates, the ages of their spouses, and with the births of their children.
Samuel Fuller's 1613 Leiden marriage record indicates he had been formerly married to Alice Glascock; nothing is known of his first wife beyond her name.
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 Samuel Fuller
Fuller's right-wing noir movie PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953) was ambiguous in its ideology and the thriller WHITE DOG (1982), dealing with the subject of racism, was unjustly prevented from having a proper release.
Fuller suggested his idea for a great opening scene: "in a tent near the front during World War I, an injured Jake Barnes is on the operating table; the nurse is Brett, and the light from the lantern shines upon her as we hear Jake's balls drop, one, then the next, into a bucket.
Usually Fuller was given B unit crews and actors, his place in the studio pecking order was not high, but in the 1960s he managed to produce three notable crime films: UNDERWORLD U.S.A. (1960), Shock Corridor, and NAKED KISS (1964), was one of the director's most shocking films, an assault on small-town smugness and corruption.
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 Images - The Narrative Tabloid of Samuel Fuller - Grant Tracey
Fuller's poetics are grounded within the traditions of the tabloid press.
Fuller has said that he plotted his potboilers on a flboard with different color chalk to make sure the compositions of red (action), white (exposition) and blue (romance) were balanced.
Fuller's collision of these three modes distinguishes his craft and has been, in part, informed by his work as a crime reporter, 1929-31, on Bernaar Macfadden's Evening Graphic, a poor imitation of the New York Daily News.
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 RP Online
Fullers Welt ist eine gewalttätige Welt, eine Welt der Entbehrungen und des Leidens, der Angst und des Schreckens, des Hasses und der Krankheit." Biograph Peter Wollen vergleicht Samuel Fuller und Norman Mailer.
Fuller kennt das Milieu wie kaum ein anderer.
Fuller ist noch zu Lebzeiten Legende, ein Stück amerikanische Filmgeschichte.
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 A Third Face -- My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking -- Samuel Fuller Martin Scorsese
Samuel Fuller is one of the best, most underrated, and most misunderstood filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Fuller's days as a reporter instilled in him a keen sense of not only social conditions in America, but also human frailties, notions that would become crucial in his films.
Fuller presents a candid, unsentimental, and unforgettable history of his wartime experiences which included action in North Africa, Sicily, France (he was part of the D-day invasion), and Germany.
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 Samuel Fuller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Samuel Fuller (1912-1997) is best known as the maverick director of war films, like The Steel Helmet, from the 1950s, through his 1980 epic The Big Red One...
Samuel Fuller’s amazingly lurid, inventive, and engaging 1964 pulp thriller features one of the wildest openings in American film noir, as a prostitute...
Brewer and pub group Fuller, Smith and Turner’s was left unmoved as it...
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 Samuel Fuller
The madhouse is Fuller’s blunt metaphor for modern America, and in sequences breathtaking for their courage, prescience and innovation, the director takes aim at racism, psychiatry and fanaticism.
USA 1952, 16mm, bandw (G) Fuller’s personal favourite amongst his own films is set in New York in 1886, and deals with the struggle between the abrasive, idealistic Phineas Mitchell (Fuller’s alter ego) and his upstart paper The Globe, and the steel-willed Charity Hackett, whose New York Star is the voice of the power elite.
Fuller produces some truly landmark shots, such as the opening in which forty gunmen gallop past the hero’s buggy leaving him swallowed in dust.
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 Samuel Fuller films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In any case, coupled with the efficient plot, the film is loaded with Fuller's magnificently giddy perversities, which is specifically why his films remain on the brink of a popularity explosion.
Having interviewed Fuller in the past, they are familiar with his stated artistic intentions for the film and with the circumstances surrounding its production.
The thrill you get watching Fuller's "Forty Guns," another Fox release ($15), is the same thrill you got the first time you saw "Star Wars." There is this visceral embrace of genre, a realization of the format's potential that is executed with a rapturous intelligence and confidence of technique.
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 Salon.com Books | "A Third Face" by Samuel Fuller
Some of the reasons Fuller struggled to find work in his later years are related to the changing appetites of film audiences.
Fuller spent many of his final years in Paris with his second wife, the German actress Christa Lang, and their daughter.
The movie is both Fuller's homecoming and a statement of physical exile, the work of an American director playing out his pulp poetry in the land to which it had become most suited, where everything could exist as an archetype.
archive.salon.com /books/review/2003/01/08/fuller/index2.html   (930 words)

  
 Independent Film Club: Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor"
Fuller's films, fashioned by the brutal economy of means, are usually steeped in melodrama, and his blunt worldview is easily discernible.
Fuller's aim is to expose and critique the social evils of Cold War American culture: redbaiting, racism, nuclear holocaust, and even the abuse of psychology.
Fuller and Cortez keep the camera moving in to heighten the emotional pressure on his characters, letting their faces bear the detailed and worried looks that the sparse sets cannot.
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 The Films of Samuel Fuller
Fuller is staunchly anti-Communist, and this gives a moral dimension to the film that is absent from most noir.
When Fuller wants to show a spectacle, he often shoots it from the front, with the spectacle parallel to the plane of the frame.
Fuller will arrange his actors in a plane, set the camera up directly in front of them, and shoot their dialogue.
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 Salon.com Books | "A Third Face" by Samuel Fuller
Fuller, who died in 1997 at age 85, was criticized and dismissed for that pulp sensibility for years.
"Fuller doesn't take time to think," Truffaut wrote; "it is clear that he is in his glory when he is shooting." Out of that visceral approach came startling, forceful moments, shots or scenes that derive their impact precisely from Fuller's "bad taste," his willingness not to blunt the impact.
Instead of bringing the camera close in on Peters, Fuller cuts to a wide shot of her apartment, physically removing us from the beating but immediately defining the boundaries of the space Peters is suddenly trapped in.
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 Eclipse from The Criterion Collection: Series 5 The First Films of Samuel Fuller
In four decades of directing, Samuel Fuller created a legendarily idiosyncratic oeuvre, examining U.S. history and mythmaking in westerns, film noirs, and war epics.
These three independent films showed off Fuller’s genre diversity, gutter wit, and subversive force, and pointed the way to a controversial career in studio moviemaking.
Samuel Fuller adapts this tall tale to film with fleet, elegant storytelling and a sly sense of humor.
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 Thirteenth Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The marriage was witnessed by Sarah Priest and Samuel Fuller.
Anna Fuller was baptized in 1577, and Edward Winslow in 1595.
William White's wife Susanna was not Anna Fuller sister of Mayflower passengers Samuel and Edward Fuller; nor was she Susanna Tilley.
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 "Doctor" Samuel FULLER Sr.
He arrived on the "Mayflower." Dr. Samuel FULLER was one of the band of pilgrims that fled from England to Leyden, Holland.
Samuel Fuller was baptized 20 Jan 1580 at Redenhall in Harleston Co., Norfolk, England and died in Plymouth between 8 August and 25 September 1633.
SAMUEL FULLER: Mayflower passenger Samuel Fuller was born in England in 1580 and was part of the Separatist community in Leiden.
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 White Dog Review (1981)
Fuller began his career in Hollywood in the mid-1930s, and after a spell in the army and many frustrated years as a writer, directed his first film in 1949, the Western I Shot Jesse James.
Fuller’s third film, The Steel Helmet, was the first movie to deal with the Korean war and was a huge success.
Fuller’s final feature was the 1989 crime drama Street of No Return, although he worked in TV until the mid-90s.
www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=47   (398 words)

  
 The Films of Samuel Fuller
Fuller had shot approximately sixteen minutes of 16mm Cinemascope footage back in 1954, depicting the indigenous people and the landscapes who would become a vital part of a sprawling Fox action film starring John Wayne, Ava Gardner and Tyrone Power.
Both have to remind themselves that Fuller (who died three years after filming) isn't around anymore to call up on the phone, and their memories of him provide a good balance of humor and warmth.
Fuller's clean, razor-sharp compositions and pacing ensure that the film never flags at a tight 80 minutes, and the political content hasn't dated much when one considers how closely it parallels modern American attitudes encouraged by the government (a subject covered thoroughly elsewhere, so draw your own conclusions on that one).
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 Sam Fuller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fuller is on the side of action-melodrama or, as so many critics called it down the years, 'lyrical violence'.
Fuller's films are all about drives, impulses, emotional states that are imprinted on the social being, as traces of ideological socialisation, as much as they issue from within the hearts, minds and guts of individuals.
All Fuller's characters are divided and twisted creatures (the most oft-cited emblematic character being the demented fl man who shouts KKK slogans in Shock Corridor): it is the clash of inner and outer states that fuel his narratives and shape the actions - and also, as a by-product, equalise the genders.
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