 He was greatly influenced by filmmaker Orson Welles and also by episodic-films.His most successful film as a director is often said to be the 1950 film "Flicka och hyacinter" (Girl with Hyacinths), a crime/mystery drama about a young woman committing suicide by hanging herself in her apartment.His 1957 film "Summer Place Wanted" was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.