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| 3 | John Eliot Sturges (January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director and producer. |
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| 5 | After working as a film editor and directing documentaries during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, he made his feature directorial debut in 1946 with ''The Man Who Dared'', and subsequently began directing films for Creator/ColumbiaPictures, mainly [[BMovie B-Movies]] and FilmNoir. |
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| 7 | He is best known, however, for his work in the {{Western}} and [[MilitaryAndWarfareFilms war movie]] genres, and during TheFifties and TheSixties directed some of the most successful and iconic examples of both. |
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| 9 | He considered the high point of his professional career to have been when Creator/AkiraKurosawa expressed his approval and love for ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]'', Sturges' 1960 remake of Kurosawa's ''Film/SevenSamurai''. |
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| 11 | Although he and fellow director Creator/PrestonSturges shared the same surname (and both of them even came from the UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} area), they were unrelated. |
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| 14 | !!Works with pages on TV Tropes: |
| 15 | [[index]] |
| 16 | * ''Film/BadDayAtBlackRock'' (1955) |
| 17 | * ''Film/TheScarletCoat'' (1955) |
| 18 | * ''Film/GunfightAtTheOKCorral'' (1957) |
| 19 | * ''Literature/TheOldManAndTheSea'' (1958) |
| 20 | * ''Film/LastTrainFromGunHill'' (1959) |
| 21 | * ''Film/NeverSoFew'' (1959) |
| 22 | * ''Film/{{The Magnificent Seven|1960}}'' (1960) |
| 23 | * ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' (1963) |
| 24 | * ''Film/TheSatanBug'' (1965) |
| 25 | * ''Film/TheHallelujahTrail'' (1965) |
| 26 | * ''Film/IceStationZebra'' (1968) |
| 27 | * ''Film/{{Marooned}}'' (1969) |
| 28 | * ''Film/JoeKidd'' (1972) |
| 29 | * ''Film/TheEagleHasLanded'' (1976) |
| 30 | [[/index]] |
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