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Edward Curtiss is a Additional Editing American born on 7 july 1898 at Los Angeles (USA)
Edward Curtiss (parfois crédité Edward Curtis) est un monteur américain (membre de l'ACE), né le 7 juillet 1898 à Los Angeles, ville où il est mort — quartier d'Hollywood — le 7 novembre 1970.
Le Vandale d'Howard Hawks et William Wyler (1936, avec Edward Arnold et Joel McCrea) lui vaut son unique nomination à l'Oscar du meilleur montage.
Pour la télévision, Edward Curtiss contribue à quatre séries, depuis Rawhide (un épisode, 1959) jusqu'à La Quatrième Dimension (quatre épisodes, 1963), après quoi il se retire.
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Nationality USA
Birth 7 july 1898 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 7 november 1970 (at 72 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Birth 7 july 1898 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 7 november 1970 (at 72 years) at Hollywood (USA)
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Au cinéma, Edward Curtiss débute comme monteur sur Notre-Dame de Paris de Wallace Worsley (1923, avec Lon Chaney et Patsy Ruth Miller). Suivent jusqu'en 1961 cent-vingt-deux autres films américains, dont Scarface (1932, avec Paul Muni et Ann Dvorak) et Les Chemins de la gloire (1936, avec Fredric March et Warner Baxter), tous deux réalisés par Howard Hawks, Les Démons de la liberté de Jules Dassin (1947, avec Burt Lancaster et Hume Cronyn), le western Winchester '73 d'Anthony Mann (1950, avec James Stewart et Shelley Winters), ou encore Le Salaire du diable de Jack Arnold (1957, avec Jeff Chandler et Orson Welles).Le Vandale d'Howard Hawks et William Wyler (1936, avec Edward Arnold et Joel McCrea) lui vaut son unique nomination à l'Oscar du meilleur montage.
Pour la télévision, Edward Curtiss contribue à quatre séries, depuis Rawhide (un épisode, 1959) jusqu'à La Quatrième Dimension (quatre épisodes, 1963), après quoi il se retire.
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, 1h25Directed by Albert Zugsmith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Richard Loo, Philip Ahn, Vincent Price, Terence De Marney, John Fujioka, Angelo Rossitto
Roles Editor
Rating61%
This film stars Vincent Price as Gilbert de Quincey, a nineteenth-century adventurer who becomes involved in a tong war in San Francisco. Price also narrated the film.
College Confidential (1960)
, 1h31Directed by Albert Zugsmith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Steve Allen, Mamie Van Doren, Jayne Meadows, Herbert Marshall, Mickey Shaughnessy, Sheilah Graham
Roles Editor
Rating48%
A sociology professor Steve McInter starts conducting a survey at Collins College about the lifestyles and sexual urges of the younger generation. One of his students Sally Blake excels with the survey and may or may not be having an affair with the professor. A reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that Steve is corrupting the youth and she discovers a dark past which he had obviously fled from.
The Mountain Road (1960)
, 1h42Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors James Stewart, Lisa Lu, Glenn Corbett, Harry Morgan, Mike Kellin, Frank Silvera
Roles Editor
Rating61%
In 1944, engineer Major Baldwin (James Stewart) is ordered to blow up an airfield as well as strategic roads and bridges to help American troops in China retreat from the Japanese army. General Loomis (Alan Baxter) is reluctant to send Baldwin due to his inexperience as a commander, but relents. Baldwin, accompanied by reluctant conscripts, Sergeant Michaelson (Harry Morgan), Prince (Mike Kellin), Lewis (Eddie Firestone), Miller (Rudy Bond) and Collins (Glenn Corbett), the demolition team's translator, Baldwin finds out from Colonel Li (Leo Chen), the Chinese commander that the Japanese are about to capture a munitions dump. Colonel Kwan (Frank Silvera) is assigned to the team but before they can embark, Madame Sue-Mei Hung (Lisa Lu), the American-educated widow of a Chinese officer, joins them, with Baldwin gradually becoming attracted to the widow.
Touch of Evil (1958)
, 1h35Directed by Orson Welles, Harry Keller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes La corruption policière
Actors Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Marlene Dietrich, Akim Tamiroff
Roles Additional Editing
Rating79%
On the U.S.-Mexico border, a time bomb is planted in a car. A man and woman enter the vehicle and make a slow journey through town to the U.S. border, the woman (Joi Lansing) insisting that she hears something ticking. Newlyweds Miguel "Mike" Vargas (Charlton Heston), a drug enforcement official in the Mexican government, and Susie (Janet Leigh) pass the car several times on foot. The car crosses the border, then explodes, killing the occupants. (The cut to the exploding car is the first one in the film, the single-camera opening sequence lasting nearly three and one-half minutes.)
The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958)
, 1h9Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors William Reynolds, Robin Hughes, Jeffrey Stone, James Anderson, Forrest Lewis
Roles Editor
Rating42%
A young woman named Jessica Burns (Carolyn Kearney), who claims to have psychic powers, lives on a remote ranch with her Aunt Flavia (Peggy Converse). She discovers an ancient box while water-witching and her Aunt takes it back to their house. Her boyfriend, Gordon (William Reynolds), goes for an archaeologist, arguing the box should be kept intact for appraisal and opening by an expert. However, the Aunt's greedy ranch foreman, anticipating treasure, secretly convinces the slow-witted handyman to break it open. Instead, the box contains the intact head of Gideon Drew (Robin Hughes), a man executed for sorcery 400 years earlier. The head awakens and telepathically takes over the mentally vulnerable handyman.
Live Fast, Die Young (1958)
Directed by Paul Henreid
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Mary Murphy, Mike Connors, Norma Eberhardt, Peggy Maley, Troy Donahue, Joan Marshall
Roles Editor
Rating64%
Two sisters, Kim Winters (Murphy) and Jill Winters (Eberhardt) run away from their home and school. They escape to the city, where they become criminals and jewelry thieves.
Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
, 1h27Directed by Jesse Hibbs
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau, Henry Silva, Joanna Moore, Mary Field
Roles Editor
Rating65%
During his escape, bank robber Joe Maybe (Audie Murphy) sees famous US Marshal Jim Noonan, who is searching for him, stumble and fall off a cliff to his death. He enters a town on the dead man's horse, where he is mistaken for Noonan. Maybe decides to hide behind the badge for a while, but soon raises the suspicions of the local law enforcer, Judge Kyle (Walter Matthau). His real identity is nearly blown when the riverboat brings to town Tessa Milott (Gia Scala), a past acquaintance of Maybe's who calls him by his surname in front of the judge. Thinking quickly, Joe says she called him "Baby," and did this because she is his wife.
Man in the Shadow (1957)
, 1h20Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Ben Alexander, Colleen Miller, Barbara Lawrence, John Larch
Roles Editor
Rating67%
The cow town of Spurline is effectively ruled by Virgil Renchler (Welles), owner of the Golden Empire ranch.
, 1h21Directed by Virgil W. Vogel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Marjorie Main, Parker Fennelly, Gloria Talbott, John Smith, George Dunn, Roy Barcroft
Roles Editor
Rating62%
Ma and Pa help out Brad Johnson to turn his girlfriend Sally into a good farm wife.
The Tattered Dress (1957)
, 1h33Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Jack Carson, Gail Russell, George Tobias, Edward Andrews
Roles Editor
Rating64%
In a California resort community, the wealthy Michael Reston is charged with the murder of a man he claimed attacked his wife, Charleen.
Mister Cory (1957)
, 1h32Directed by Blake Edwards
Genres Drama
Themes Jeu, Poker
Actors Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Charles Bickford, Kathryn Crosby, William Reynolds, Henry Daniell
Roles Editor
Rating65%
Cory, a poor Chicago kid with a penchant for gambling, gets a job at a posh Wisconsin resort as a busboy. He takes a liking to glamorous socialite Abby Vollard, who is toying with the affections of rich boyfriend Alex Wyncott.
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
, 1h18Directed by John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Adventure, Horror
Actors Jeff Morrow, Ricou Browning, Rex Reason, Don Megowan, Leigh Snowden, Gregg Palmer
Roles Editor
Rating55%
Following the Gill-man's escape from Ocean Harbor, Florida, a team of scientists led by the deranged and cold-hearted Dr. William Barton (Jeff Morrow) aboard the Vagabondia III. to capture the creature in the Everglades. Barton is mentally unstable and apparently abusive husband to his wife Marcia (Leigh Snowden), as he becomes very jealous and paranoid when Marcia is with other men. Their guide Jed Grant (Gregg Palmer) makes numerous passes on Marcia, with Barton becoming paranoid about the two.
The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)
, 1h21Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Marjorie Main, Arthur Hunnicutt, Una Merkel, Ted de Corsia, Richard Deacon, Dave O'Brien
Roles Editor
Rating63%
With Pa out of the way, Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay.
Gun for a Coward (1956)
Directed by Abner Biberman
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Dean Stockwell, Janice Rule, Chill Wills, Josephine Hutchinson
Roles Editor
Rating59%
Will Keough is a rancher with two younger brothers, who are called Bless and Hade. They live with their widowed mother, Hannah, whose husband was bitten by a rattlesnake when Bless was a young boy. Ever since that day, Hannah has been determined to shield Bless from the hard life of the West and turn him instead into a refined, gentler soul. In so doing, she sometimes embarrasses Bless in front of the ranch's other men.
Red Sundown (1956)
, 1h21Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Rory Calhoun, Martha Hyer, Dean Jagger, Robert Middleton, Grant Williams, James Millican
Roles Editor
Rating64%
A gunfighter decides to change his ways after nearly losing his life. He reforms, becoming a deputy to an honest sheriff and falling in love with the sheriff's daughter.