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Originally Posted by Baz
Showing John Sturges films today on TCM. Ice Station Zebra just finished and coming up The Great Escape.
Interesting short doc on cinematographer John Stephens......
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I'm a big John Sturges fan, Bad Day At Blackrock is one of my favorites.
If you didn't catch Mystery Street you missed out. One of his early movies with a young Ricardo Montalban and Elsa Lanchester....
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042771/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_mystery%2520stree
Something interesting I didn't know about Ricardo Montalban...
This is one of the last motion pictures in which Ricardo Montalban can be seen walking or running normally, and even playing handball in one scene. The following year, during the filming of "Across the Wide Missouri," Montalban was thrown from a horse and trampled, causing severe back injuries. Montalban was in constant pain for the rest of his life, and unable to walk without a severe limp. His physical limitations were often masked by directors not showing him moving about during a scene. Instead, he typically would be shot standing or sitting, and if he had to appear to walk, the camera usually cut away just as he began to move. (Similar techniques would be used with game show emcee Bill Cullen, whose ability to walk was similarly impaired by childhood polio.) Montalban underwent an operation in 1993 to try to correct the problem, but instead ended up paralyzed below the waist.