One of the fun parts of a movie critic’s job is the opportunity to rediscover a writer, director, character actor or what have you who has been mostly ignored in the broad sweep of film history.

Maybe you first saw the movies on daytime television, panned-and-scanned for the small screen and interrupted by local commercials. Maybe you never even noticed the director’s credit. But they all had ...

If the only filmmaking Sturges you’ve heard of is Preston, the American Cinematheque is about to widen your horizons by presenting “The Magnificent John Sturges” on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the ...

From Paul Brickhill's true story of a remarkable mass breakout by Allied POWs during World War II, producer-director John Sturges has fashioned a motion picture that entertains, captivates, thrills ...

Director John Sturges, who specialized in melding a social consciousness to such rugged, nearly all-male action films as ”The Magnificent Seven” and ”Bad Day at Black Rock,” has died at the age of 82.

The Western genre is one of the oldest and cherished film genres to ever enter the landscape of cinema and successfully ...

John Eliot Sturges was an American film director. His movies include Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963) and Ice ...