Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges (Wisconsin Film Studies) (Wisconsin Studies in Film)

by Glenn Lovell (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $26.24

  A biography of John Sturges. It examines his childhood in California during the Great Depression; his apprenticeship in the editing department of RKO Pictures, where he worked on such films as Gunga Din ; his service in the Army Air Corps in WWII; and his emergence as one of the first independent producer-directors in Hollywood.