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	William Cameron Menzies Summary
		Menzies first teamed up with some big names when he worked on the design of a 1923 hit, Rosita, which was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starred Mary Pickford.
		Increasingly, Menzies was working with top Hollywood stars and directors--with Douglas Fairbanks in The Iron Mask and Taming of the Shrew, with Ronald Colman in Raffles, and with John Barrymore in The Beloved Rogue and The Tempest, an adventure story set during the Russian Revolution.
		William Cameron Menzies (July 29, 1896 - March 5, 1957) was an Academy Award-winning and versatile art director who earned acclaim on silent films and later pioneered the use of color in film for dramatic effect.
	www.bookrags.com /William_Cameron_Menzies (1934 words)

	enthusiasm » Blog Archive » William Cameron Menzies (1896-1957)
		Menzies’ IMDb reference page makes very interesting reading: many more credits as a production designer than as a director.
		According to Leonard Maltin’s Movie Encyclopedia, Menzies was the first person ever to be credited as a Production Designer on a movie, and frequently had a much greater influence on the look of a film than the director, since the responsibility extended into costume and special effects.
		Menzies also co-wrote a screenplay, with Joe Mankiewitz, of a 1933 version of Alice in Wonderland which I’ve never seen.
	www.nexistepas.com /enthuse/?p=1004 (606 words)

	THE ASTOUNDING B MONSTER \| HORROR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Admittedly its director, William Cameron Menzies, a bona fide filmland genius, possessed an unconcealable flair for the offbeat.
		Menzies wove Wells' steely literary threads into a compelling futuristic canvas, contrasting the stylized grit of a society devastated by war, with the soaring chrome and immaculate machinery of a new breed seeking to better mankind through inter-galactic exploration.
		Menzies refrained from exploiting the sheer novelty of 3-D, wisely determining that it would most likely serve to reveal the film's cost-cutting underpinnings.
	www.bmonster.com /horror5.html (635 words)

	Amazon.ca: Drums in the Deep South [IMPORT]: DVD: William Cameron Menzies,Peter Brocco,James Craig,Robert Easton,Tom ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William Cameron Menzies was indeed one of Hollywood's great craftsmen but little of his talent as a production designer is visible in this otherwise easily forgettable Civil War drama; for that, the King Brothers' budget simply proved too skimpy.
		The climactic battle is well done but Drums in the Deep South suffers from an overall sense of claustrophobia and a distinct lack of scope.
		Directed by former set designer William Cameron Menzies, this minor Civil War effort from low-budget producers King Brothers stars James Craig and Guy Madison as former West Point roommates now on opposing sides in the war between the states.
	www.amazon.ca /Drums-South-William-Cameron-Menzies/dp/B000092T4E (644 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Invaders From Mars: SE (1953)
		There are long, seemingly endless stock footage shots of tanks, jeeps and soldiers allegedly preparing for an attack on the alien stronghold, and when the director starts repeating some of them you know it was not just padding, but lazy, cost-cutting padding.
		One of the funnier what-the-hell examples occurs during a scene in the observatory, where we are treated to a painfully slow "rotate the telescope" shot that goes on for far too long.
		While Menzies' film has its share of eye-rolling visual idiosyncrasies (like using the same long halled for the police station AND the laboratory sets), the underlying story is pure pre-space program, imaginative sci-fi.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=4304 (1236 words)

	The Whip Hand (1951)
		Menzies directs with the customary fine sense of style he brought to all his works.
		Menzies is strongly reliant upon film noir stylistic effects - the generation of a world of shadowy paranoia and perpetual suspicion and distrust.
		Menzies lays down the subgenre's essential themes of a small archetypal American town being overtaken by an emotionless menace (be it alien or Communist) that has the semblance of everyday life, but is alien and intending to overthrow the nation from behind its mask of normalcy.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/whiphand.htm (438 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Vertrees, Selznick's Vision
		Unacknowledged is the fact that the fire episode in Mitchell's novel was severely abbreviated in Sidney Howard's initial scripts because the screenwriter doubted the value of this scene to the film presentation.
		Ultimately, Menzies' unprecedented assignment to "storyboard" the entire film remained a tentative program which Selznick exploited—much as he did the filmscript's development—for the purpose of controlling the picture and its directors.
		In spite of the plethora of documentation of others' creative contributions that was preserved by the producer, all technical and artistic interpretations of narrative and imagery were subject to Selznick's executive authority.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exversep.html (6626 words)

	William Cameron Menzies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William C. Menzies / William Menzies / Wm.
		Cavalcade (1933) (war scenes) (as William C. Menzies)
		Find where William Cameron Menzies is credited alongside another name
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0580017 (276 words)

	William Cameron Menzies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hailing from the silent era, when visuals determined a picture's impact, Menzies revolutionized the craft of art direction in Hollywood, becoming the first man billed as "production designer" and in some cases playing a bigger part in the design of a film than its director.
		Menzies' visual style is characterized by a three-dimensional sensibility, and his input extended to costume design and special effects, as well as set design and construction.
		His best, and best-remembered, film as director was the British-made THINGS TO COME (1936), an art director's dream, but Menzies returned to production work in the late 1930s and did some of his finest work in the decade to follow.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/menzies_w.htm (374 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : William Cameron Menzies : Biography
		Things to Come, and Duel in the Sun--William Cameron Menzies also directed and produced several films of note, including Invaders from Mars (1953), The Maze, and The Whip Hand.
		One of the most gifted visual designers in the history of cinema, Menzies was a dominant force in movies from the silent era up through the end of the '50s, when he worked as associate producer on Mike Todd's Around the World in 80 Days.
		He also worked uncredited as a director of individual scenes on many of the films that he designed, including Gone with the Wind, the 1940 Thief of Baghdad, and Duel in the Sun.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/90664/bio.jhtml (234 words)

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		Born William Philips in Nevada City, California 13th April 1864.
		Died 10th March 1943 in Encino, California of a heart and lung ailment.
		WILLIAM V. Born in Clambersbury, Pennsylvania June 25th 1875.
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	William Cameron Menzies Biography at Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Menzies' artistry encompassed everything from the opulent appointments of "Gone With the Wind" (1939) to the cramped, shadowy interiors of Anthony Mann's "Reign of Terror" (1949).
		His directorial career was relatively undistinguished, one exception being the landmark sci-fi drama, "Things to Come" (1936).
		Tobe Hooper's 1986 remake of "Invaders from Mars" (1953) used some of Menzies' original designs for the project.
	www.hollywood.com /celebritydetail/William_Cameron_Menzies/193532 (296 words)

	William Cameron Menzies - Moviefone
		William Cameron Menzies (July 29, 1896 - March 5, 1957) was an American Academy Award-winning and...
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	movies.aol.com /celebrity/william-cameron-menzies/102542/main (129 words)

	Amazon.com: Things to Come: Video: William Cameron Menzies,Raymond Massey,Edward Chapman,Ralph Richardson,Margaretta ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William Cameron Menzies - Director, H.G. Wells - Writer, Alexander Korda - Producer (producer)...
		Though occasionally a bit pompous, this memorable film is justifiably notable for its striking production design--the futuristic portion may be the part everyone remembers but the design of the post-apocalyptic Everytown by William Cameron Menzies is just as impressive.
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	www.amazon.com /Things-Come-William-Cameron-Menzies/dp/6300159043 (1649 words)

	William Cameron Menzies Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		He paid careful attention to every aspect of how a film looked.
		Later science fiction films such as Blade Runner owed much to Things to Come.
		William Cameron Menzies from Encyclopedia of World Biography.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/william-cameron-menzies (1754 words)

	AMCTV.com SHOW - Invaders from Mars
		The classic invasion-of-the-little-green-men movie from Hollywood stylist Menzies.
		A boy can't get anyone, including his parents, to listen when he claims to have seen a flying saucer land nearby.
		Of course, everyone he meets has already succumbed to the invasion.
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=1662-1-1 (40 words)

	Amazon.ca: Drums in the Deep South: Video: William Cameron Menzies,James Craig,Barbara Payton,Guy Madison,Barton ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Amazon.ca: Drums in the Deep South: Video: William Cameron Menzies,James Craig,Barbara Payton,Guy Madison,Barton MacLane,Robert Osterloh,Tom Fadden,Robert Easton,Louis Jean Heydt,Craig Stevens,Taylor Holmes,Lewis Martin,Peter Brocco,Dan White,Roy Gordon
		I can say the movie is worth the price of repeated viewing.
		Genres > Action & Adventure > Action Directors > James Cameron
	www.amazon.ca /Drums-South-William-Cameron-Menzies/dp/6303987761 (340 words)

	The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
		Jonathan Demme's The Manchurian Candidate is arguably more of a retelling of William Cameron Menzies' Invaders from Mars (1953) than it is of John Frankenheimer's incomparable 1962 original.
		Like Menzies' science-fiction B-movie classic, the premise of Demme's updating is that some alien force (Earthling mad scientist in this instance instead of Martian) has implanted a small device in certain respected members of our society in order to manipulate them into harming our surprisingly fragile good old American value system.
		Also like Invaders from Mars, the whole film moves with the logic of a fever dream, all intense close-ups, hallucinatory visions, and suggestions of going underground.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/manchuriancandidate2004.htm (843 words)

	William Cameron Menzies at Reel Classics: Image Credits
		Return to the William Cameron Menzies main page.
		Which of Lauren Bacall's five films with Humphrey Bogart was delayed due to the disappointing box-office performance of the first film she made without him?
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	www.reelclassics.com /Technicians/Menzies/menzies-credits.htm (129 words)

	The Bat (Silent) - Silent Films Classic Movies on DVD (1926) - Alpha Video : Oldies.com
		A hooded killer stalks a group of travelers stranded in a mysterious mansion in this beautifully made horror classic designed by William Cameron Menzies.
		After the bank president is found dead, a group of houseguests search the mansion for clues to the whereabouts of the missing fortune and the identity of The Bat.
		They set a trap for the mysterious killer, but the master criminal manages to escape with the money.Based on the famous play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, The Bat is renowned for its expert use of miniatures and striking set designs by William Cameron Menzies.
	www.oldies.com /product-view/4470D.html (832 words)

	Cameron Douglas Movies @ Filmbug
		Movies on DVD with or related to Cameron Douglas.
		Directed by William Cameron Menzies and Quentin Lawrence
		Click here for region 2 encoded Cameron Douglas DVDs (Europe, Japan, Middle East and South Africa).
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	Filmography for William Cameron Menzies on MSN Movies
		Filmography for William Cameron Menzies on MSN Movies
		Born: July 29, 1896 in New Haven, CT Died: March 5, 1957
		Director, Producer, Art Director, Production Designer, Set Designer
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