John Sturges (1910 – 1992) was an American director best known for action-inflected Westerns and tense ensemble pieces like Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), and The Great Escape (1963). He is often credited for the strong character-based drama he brought to the genre material he worked with.
John Sturges (1910 – 1992), regista americano noto soprattutto per western densi di azione e per tesi film corali come Giorno maledetto (1955), Sfida all’O.K. Corral (1957), I magnifici sette (1960) e La grande fuga (1963), è entrato nella storia del cinema per la componente drammatica imperniata su personaggi forti che è riuscito a infondere nel materiale di genere con cui lavorava.
Filmography
1976 The Eagle Has Landed
1974 McQ
1973 Chino
1972 Joe Kidd
1969 Marooned
1968 Ice Station Zebra
1967 Hour of the Gun
1965 The Hallelujah Trail
1965 The Satan Bug
1963 The Great Escape
1962 A Girl Named Tamiko
1962 Sergeants 3
1961 By Love Possessed
1960 The Magnificent Seven
1959 Never So Few
1959 Last Train from Gun Hill
1958 The Old Man and the Sea
1958 The Law and Jake Wade
1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1956 Backlash
1955 The Scarlet Coat
1955 Underwater!
1955 Bad Day at Black Rock
1953 Escape from Fort Bravo
1953 Fast Company
1953 Jeopardy
1952 The Girl in White
1951 It's a Big Country: An American Anthology
1951 The People Against O'Hara
1951 Kind Lady
1950 The Magnificent Yankee
1950 Right Cross
1950 Mystery Street
1950 The Capture
1949 The Walking Hills
1948 Best Man Wins
1948 The Sign of the Ram
1947 Keeper of the Bees
1947 For the Love of Rusty
1946 Alias Mr. Twilight
1946 Shadowed
1946 The Man Who Dared
