Who directed the 1947 film noir for which Fergus McDonell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing?
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Fergus McDonell Fergus McDonell (6 October 1910, Ticehurst, Sussex – 3 January 1984, Norwich, Norfolk) was an English film editor and director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for "Odd Man Out" (1947).
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Odd Man Out Odd Man Out is a 1947 British film noir set in an unnamed Northern Irish city and directed by Carol Reed. It is based on the novel by F. L. Green and stars James Mason and Robert Newton.
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White Heat White Heat is a 1949 film noir directed by Raoul Walsh. It stars James Cagney as "Cody" Jarrett, Virginia Mayo as Verna, Edmond O'Brien as Hank Fallon aka "Vic Pardo", Margaret Wycherly as "Ma" Jarrett, and Steve Cochran as "Big Ed" Somers. Written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, "White Heat" is based on a story by Virginia Kellogg, and is considered to be one of the best gangster movies of all time. In 2003, it was added to the National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress.
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Noir (film) Noir is a Canadian drama film, directed by Yves Christian Fournier and released in 2015.
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Second Chance (1947 film) Second Chance is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by James Tinling and written by Arnold Belgard. The film stars Kent Taylor, Louise Currie, Dennis Hoey, Larry J. Blake, Ann Doran and John Eldredge. The film was released on July 18, 1947, by 20th Century Fox.
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Calcutta (1947 film) Calcutta is a 1947 American film noir crime film directed by John Farrow, and written and produced by Seton I. Miller. The drama features Alan Ladd, Gail Russell and William Bendix.
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The House on Telegraph Hill The House on Telegraph Hill is a 1951 American film noir directed by Robert Wise, and starring Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, and William Lundigan. Fay Baker also stars in the film, which received an Academy Award nomination for its art direction. The hill in the title is San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, where much of the story takes place.
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While the City Sleeps (1956 film) While the City Sleeps is a 1956 film noir directed by Fritz Lang. Written by Casey Robinson, the newspaper drama was based on "The Bloody Spur" by Charles Einstein, which depicts the story of "Lipstick Killer" William Heirens. The film features Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, John Drew Barrymore and Ida Lupino.
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The Accused (1949 film) The Accused is a 1949 American film noir directed by William Dieterle and written by Ketti Frings, based on "Be Still, My Love", a 1947 novel written by June Truesdell. The drama features Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, Wendell Corey and Sam Jaffe.
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Brute Force (1947 film) Brute Force is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by Jules Dassin, from a screenplay by Richard Brooks with cinematography by William H. Daniels. It stars Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn and Charles Bickford.
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Brighton Rock (1947 film) Brighton Rock is a 1947 British gangster film noir directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as violent gang leader Pinkie Brown (reprising his breakthrough West End creation of the character some three years earlier), Carol Marsh as the innocent girl he marries, and Hermione Baddeley as an amateur sleuth investigating a murder he committed. The film was adapted from the 1938 novel "Brighton Rock" by Graham Greene, and was produced by Roy Boulting through the Boulting brothers' production company Charter Film Productions. It was later released in the United States under the title "Young Scarface".
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Circumstantial Evidence (1945 film) Circumstantial Evidence is a 1945 American film noir directed by John Larkin and starring Michael O'Shea, Lloyd Nolan, and Trudy Marshall.
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The Killing (film) The Killing is a 1956 film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick and produced by James B. Harris. It was written by Kubrick and Jim Thompson and based on the novel "Clean Break" by Lionel White. The drama stars Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards and features Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook Jr., Jay C. Flippen and Timothy Carey.
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Blanche Fury Blanche Fury is a 1948 British Technicolor drama film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger and Michael Gough. It was adapted from a novel by Joseph Shearing. In Victorian era England, two schemers will stop at nothing to acquire the Fury estate, even murder.
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Edward Dmytryk Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian-born American film director. He was known for his 1940s "films noir" and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for "Crossfire" (1947).
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Robert J. Kern Robert James Kern (March 29, 1885 – May 30, 1972) was an American film editor with more than sixty feature film credits. He is known for editing "National Velvet" (1944), which won him the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. "National Velvet" was one of thirteen films that Kern edited with director Clarence Brown. He also made seven films with director W. S. Van Dyke, including three of the "Thin Man" series. Kern was nominated for the Academy Award for "David Copperfield" (1935), which was directed by George Cukor.
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Joi McMillon Joi McMillon is an American film editor, known for her work on the critically acclaimed film "Moonlight". In 2017, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing (shared with Nat Sanders) at the 89th Academy Awards. McMillon is the first black woman to be nominated for an Oscar for film editing. Barry Jenkins said of her nomination in 2017: “I respect her work. It makes me very proud of the work she did to see that I’m not the only one. Clearly all these folks in the academy respected the work she did as well.” McMillon won (with Nat Sanders) Best Film Editing for her work on "Moonlight" at the 2017 Spirit Awards.
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High Wall High Wall is a 1947 film noir, starring Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter and Herbert Marshall. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt from a screenplay by Sydney Boehm and Lester Cole, based on a play by Alan R. Clark and Bradbury Foote.
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The Lawless The Lawless is a 1950 American film noir directed by Joseph Losey and features Macdonald Carey, Gail Russell and Johnny Sands.
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They Made Me a Fugitive They Made Me a Fugitive (released in the US as I Became a Criminal) is a 1947 British film noir set in postwar England.
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The Underworld Story The Underworld Story is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Cy Endfield starring Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva and Michael O'Shea. Da Silva plays the loud-mouthed gangster Carl Durham, one of his last roles before becoming blacklisted.
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Among the Living (1941 film) Among the Living is a 1941 film noir directed by Stuart Heisler, and starring Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey and Frances Farmer. The film is a mix of social drama, horror film, and suspense thriller.