A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking (Applause Books)

(Applause Books). Winner of Best Non-Fiction for 2002 Award from the Los Angeles Times Book Review! Samuel Fuller was one of the most prolific and independent writer-director-producers in Hollywood. His 29 tough, gritty films made from 1949 to 1989 set out to capture the truth of war, racism and human frailties, and incorporate some of his own experiences. His film Park Row was inspired by his years in the New York newspaper business, where his beat included murders, suicides, state executions and race riots. He writes about hitchhiking across the country at the height of the Great Depression. His years in the army in World War II are captured in his hugely successful pictures The Big Red One , The Steel Helmet and Merrill's Marauders . Fuller's other films include Pickup on South Street ; Underworld U.S.A. , a movie that shows how gangsters in the 1960s were seen as "respected" tax-paying executives; Shock Corridor , which exposed the conditions in mental institutions; and White Dog , written in collaboration with Curtis Hanson ( L.A. Confidential ), a film so controversial that Paramount's then studio heads Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner refused to release it. In addition to his work in film, Samuel Fuller (1911-1997) wrote eleven novels. He lived in Los Angeles with his wife and their daughter. A Third Face was completed by Jerome Henry Rudes, Fuller's longtime friend, and his wife, Christa Lang Fuller. "Fuller wasn't one for tactful understatement and his hot-blooded, incident-packed autobiography is accordingly blunt ... A Third Face is a grand, lively, rambunctious memoir." Janet Maslin, The New York Times ; "Fuller's last work is a joy and an important addition to film and popular culture literature." Publishers Weekly ; "If you don't like the films of Sam Fuller, then you just don't like cinema." Martin Scorsese, from the book's introduction

this Is The Autobiography Of Novelist And Moviemaker Fuller (1911- 1997), Known For Films Such As the Big Red One And underworld, U.s.a.. Fuller Describes His Youth In Worcester, Massachusetts; His Experiences Fighting In World War Ii; And His Career In Letters And Movies. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, Or

publishers Weekly

`hammer!' Hell If I Know Why That Was The First Goddamned Word That Came Out Of My Mouth, Writes Cult Filmmaker Fuller (1911-1997) In His Autobiography's Opening Line. But Hammer Is An Apt Word For Fuller's Abrupt, Shocking Style. With Such Classics As Pickup On South Street And Run Of The Arrow, Fuller Brought Seriousness And Art To The Hollywood B-movie. I'm A Storyteller, He Proclaims, And This Straightforward, Unsentimental Account Of His Life And Substantial Career Is Reflective Of His Film Sensibility. The Book Details Fuller's Early Days As A Journalist On The Crime Beat Who Wrote Expos S Of The Klan And Later As A Soldier In Wwii. During His Long Career, Fuller Wrote And Directed 23 Films, Wrote Another 16 And Published 11 Novels. Famous For His Gritty Stories With Stark Plot Details-the Bald Prostitute Beating Up Her Pimp In The Naked Kiss; The Asylum Race Riot Started By A Black Man Who Thinks He's In The Kkk In Shock Corridor-fuller Was One Of Hollywood's Most Political Filmmakers, And His Memoir Neatly Conflates His Artistic And Political Visions. Of Shock Corridor, He Reflects, It Had The Subtlety Of A Sledgehammer. I Was Dealing With Insanity, Racism, Patriotism, Nuclear Warfare, And Sexual Perversion... My Madhouse Was A Metaphor For America. Always Energetic And Often Gossipy-he Writes Of His Odd, Intense Friendship With Jim Morrison And How Barbara Stanwyck Did Her Own Stunts In Forty Guns-fuller's Last Work Is A Joy And An Important Addition To Film And Popular Culture Literature. 171 Photos. Agent, Fifi Oscard. (oct.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

"In his new book, Samuel Fuller, independent director-producer, tells the story of his life, a life that spanned most of the twentieth century. His twenty-nine pictures made from 1949 to 1989 set out to capture the truth of war, racism, and human frailties, and incorporate some of his own experiences." "He writes of his years in the newspaper business - selling papers as a boy on the streets of New York, working for Hearst's New York Journal American, first as a copyboy, then as personal runner for the famous Hearst editor in chief Arthur Brisbane. His film Park Row was inspired by his years as a reporter for the New York Evening Graphic, where his beat included murders, suicides, state executions, and race riots - he scooped every other New York paper with his coverage of the death by drug overdose of the legendary Jeanne Eagels." "Fuller writes about hitchhiking across the country, seeing America firsthand at the height of the Great Depression. He writes of his years in the army fighting with the first infantry division in World War II, called the Big Red One ... on the front lines during the invasion of North Africa and Sicily, and landing on Omaha Beach on D Day, June 6, 1944. These experiences he later captured in his hugely successful pictures The Big Red One, The Steel Helmet, and Merrill's Marauders, which was based on the true story of a three-thousand-man infantry that fought behind enemy lines in Burma in 1944."