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John Sturges

Highest Rated: 97% Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Lowest Rated: 33% The Hallelujah Trail (1965)

Birthday: Jan 3, 1910

Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois, USA

Reliable Hollywood craftsman who established his reputation in the mid-1950s with a series of intense, morally charged features such as "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1954) and "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957), before moving on to bigger--though not especially better--productions.

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Highest-Rated Movies

97% 87% Bad Day at Black Rock
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94% 95% The Great Escape
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91% 80% Last Train From Gun Hill
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89% 87% The Magnificent Seven
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89% 74% Gunga Din
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88% 52% Hour of the Gun
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87% 70% Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
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86% 44% Marooned
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83% 50% The Magnificent Yankee
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80% 54% Joe Kidd
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John Sturges

John Sturges SERGEANTS 3, director John Sturges, Joey Bishop, Frank Sinatra on set, 1962 A GIRL NAMED TAMIKO, from left, standing, Laurence Harvey, director John Sturges, 1963 THE GREAT ESCAPE, from left, Steve McQueen, James Garner, director John Sturges, 1963 THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, from left: cinematographer James Wong Howe, director John Sturges, Spencer Tracy, on set, 1958 tomats1958st-fsct03(tomats1958st-fsct03) GREAT ESCAPE, James Coburn, James Garner, Steve McQueen, John Sturges, 1963 ICE STATION ZEBRA, director John Sturges on set, 1968 View more photos

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Chino 36% 1977 Director The Eagle Has Landed 71% 68% 1976 Director McQ 40% 57% 1974 Director Chino 36% 1973 Director Joe Kidd 80% 54% 1972 Director Marooned 86% 44% 1969 Director Ice Station Zebra 47% 58% 1968 Director Hour of the Gun 88% 52% 1967 Director, Producer The Satan Bug 57% 45% 1965 Director, Producer The Hallelujah Trail 33% 65% 1965 Director The Great Escape 94% 95% 1963 Director, Producer Sergeants 3 31% 1962 Director A Girl Named Tamiko 1962 Director By Love Possessed 50% 38% 1961 Director The Magnificent Seven 89% 87% 1960 Director, Producer Last Train From Gun Hill 91% 80% 1959 Director Never So Few 40% 33% 1959 Director The Old Man and the Sea 75% 67% 1958 Director The Law and Jake Wade 60% 1958 Director Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 87% 70% 1957 Director Backlash 42% 1956 Director The Scarlet Coat 40% 1955 Director Bad Day at Black Rock 97% 87% 1955 Director Underwater! 13% 1955 Director Escape From Fort Bravo 54% 1953 Director
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