Harold Schuster

Director

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Also Known As

Harold D. Schuster

Birth Place

Cherokee, Iowa, USA

Born

August 01, 1902

Died

July 19, 1986

Biography

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Actor and assistant cameraman turned editor, who made his mark on such films as F.W. Murnau's landmark silent, "Sunrise" (1927), and the delightful love story, "Zoo in Budapest" (1933). Schuster made an encouraging directorial debut in the late 1930s but turned out mostly unremarkable features until defecting to TV in the 1950s....

Filmography

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The Crowning Experience (1960)

Courage of Black Beauty (1957)

Portland Exposé (1957)

Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957)

Down Liberty Road (1956)

Finger Man (1955)

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My Friend Flicka (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Losing And Busting And Forgetting

My Friend Flicka (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I Didn't Mean To Scare Them

Biography

Actor and assistant cameraman turned editor, who made his mark on such films as F.W. Murnau's landmark silent, "Sunrise" (1927), and the delightful love story, "Zoo in Budapest" (1933). Schuster made an encouraging directorial debut in the late 1930s but turned out mostly unremarkable features until defecting to TV in the 1950s.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The Crowning Experience (1960)

Courage of Black Beauty (1957)

Portland Exposé (1957)

Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957)

Down Liberty Road (1956)

Finger Man (1955)

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955)

The Return of Jack Slade (1955)

Security Risk (1954)

Loophole (1954)

Port of Hell (1954)

Jack Slade (1953)

Kid Monk Baroni (1952)

So Dear to My Heart (1949)

Photoplay Director

The Tender Years (1948)

Breakfast in Hollywood (1946)

Marine Raiders (1944)

My Friend Flicka (1943)

On the Sunny Side (1942)

Girl Trouble (1942)

The Postman Didn't Ring (1942)

Small Town Deb (1941)

A Very Young Lady (1941)

Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me (1940)

Zanzibar (1940)

Diamond Frontier (1940)

South to Karanga (1940)

One Hour to Live (1939)

Swing That Cheer (1938)

Dinner at the Ritz (1937)

Wings of the Morning (1937)

Spring Tonic (1935)

Director of added scenes

Editing (Feature Film)

One More Spring (1935)

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)

The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)

Marie Galante (1934)

Now I'll Tell (1934)

I Am Suzanne! (1934)

All Men Are Enemies (1934)

Berkeley Square (1933)

Dangerously Yours (1933)

Zoo in Budapest (1933)

Call Her Savage (1932)

A Passport to Hell (1932)

Almost Married (1932)

Devil's Lottery (1932)

Chandu the Magician (1932)

Quick Millions (1931)

Ambassador Bill (1931)

Always Goodbye (1931)

Don't Bet on Women (1931)

Reckless Living (1931)

The Man Who Came Back (1931)

Such Men Are Dangerous (1930)

Renegades (1930)

Women Everywhere (1930)

South Sea Rose (1929)

Frozen Justice (1929)

Four Devils (1929)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Life Events

1937

Directorial debut "Wings of the Morning"

Videos

My Friend Flicka (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Losing And Busting And Forgetting Opening the Twentieth Century-Fox adaptation of the then-current popular novel by Mary O’Hara, rancher Rob (Preston Foster), daughter Hildy (Diana Hale) and hand Gus (James Bell) discover the latest trouble wrought by (inexplicably English) son Ken (Roddy McDowall), in My Friend Flicka, 1942.

My Friend Flicka (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I Didn't Mean To Scare Them Big horse action on location in Wyoming where the original novel by Mary O’Hara was set, rancher Rob (Preston Foster) and hired man Gus (James Bell) are bringing in the herd when accident-prone son Ken (Roddy McDowall) causes a minor avalanche, and meets a colt, in My Friend Flicka, 1942.

My Friend Flicka (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Rocket's Loco On their Wyoming ranch, checking damage done by a mountain lion, rancher Rob (Preston Foster), with hired Gus (James Bell), has reluctantly promised a horse to his sort-of hapless son Ken (Roddy McDowall), who makes a challenging choice, in My Friend Flicka, 1942.

So Dear To My Heart (1948) -- (Movie Clip) The Greatest Wealth Narration and vocal by John Beal, song by Irving Taylor and Ticker Freeman, story-book opening by Disney animators including Ub Iwerks and Josh Meador, and a quick look at the leading lad, Bobby Driscoll as Jerry, in the 1948 adaptation of the book by Sterling North, So Dear To My Heart.

So Dear To My Heart (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Black As A Lump Of Coal Jerry (Bobby Driscoll) and hardworking Granny (Beulah Bondi) check to see if the lambs have been born, on her Indiana farm, and we meet the black sheep who will become the boy’s true pet-project, in Walt Disney’s live-action plus animation feature So Dear To My Heart, 1948.

So Dear To My Heart (1948) -- (Movie Clip) It's What You Do With What You Got Jerry (Bobby Driscoll) is surprised when his scrapbook image of his new prized black lamb pet Jeremiah comes alive, and is educated by the “Wise Old Owl” (voice by Ken Carson), with a song by Don Raye and Gene DePaul, the first fully animated sequence in Disney’s So Dear To My Heart, 1948.

Wings Of The Morning (1937) -- (Movie Clip) My Friend The Duke With cousin and Irish host Sir Valentine (Stewart Rome), Canadian Kerry (Henry Fonda) is fuming over Spanish duchess Maria (Annabella) who, until now, has been dressed as a boy, in Wings Of The Morning, 1937.

Wings Of The Morning (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Haven For All Gypsies Opening the first British film in 3-strip Technicolor, Lord Clontarf (Leslie Banks) intervenes as police on his land assail Gypsy Mairik (D.J. Williams) and daughter Marie (Annabella), in Wings Of The Morning, 1937.

Wings Of The Morning (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Not A Shrimp! Introduction of Canadian horse trainer Kerry (Henry Fonda), whereupon Gypsy-descended Spanish duchess Maria (Annabella), disguised as a boy, rides up and makes a trade, in 20th Century Fox's 3-strip Technicolor experiment Wings Of The Morning, 1937.

Marine Raiders - (Re-issue Trailer) Pat O'Brien and Robert Ryan are Marine buddies training in Australia who battle over love in Marine Raiders (1944).

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