Steve Fisher - Turner Classic Movies

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The Great Gundown (1977)

The Great Gundown (1977)

The Last Day (1975)

The Last Day (1975)

The Last Day (1975)

Savage Red - Outlaw White (1974)

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Tokyo Joe (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Close To The Bar

Tokyo Joe (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I Got Wise To Myself

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

The Great Gundown (1977)

The Great Gundown (1977)

The Last Day (1975)

The Last Day (1975)

The Last Day (1975)

Savage Red - Outlaw White (1974)

The Clones (1973)

Arizona Bushwhackers (1968)

Arizona Bushwhackers (1968)

Red Tomahawk (1967)

Fort Utah (1967)

Hostile Guns (1967)

Red Tomahawk (1967)

Johnny Reno (1966)

Johnny Reno (1966)

Black Spurs (1965)

Young Fury (1965)

Young Fury (1965)

Law of the Lawless (1964)

Noose for a Gunman (1960)

September Storm (1960)

I, Mobster (1959)

Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959)

The Restless Breed (1957)

Courage of Black Beauty (1957)

Night Freight (1955)

Silent Fear (1955)

Story and Screenplay

Las Vegas Shakedown (1955)

Betrayed Women (1955)

The Big Tip Off (1955)

Toughest Man Alive (1955)

Hell's Half Acre (1954)

The Shanghai Story (1954)

Sea of Lost Ships (1954)

Susan Slept Here (1954)

Based on a Story by

City That Never Sleeps (1953)

Terror Street (1953)

Story and Screenplay

Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)

The Man from the Alamo (1953)

San Antone (1953)

The Big Frame (1953)

Flat Top (1952)

Battle Zone (1952)

Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (1952)

Roadblock (1951)

Tokyo Joe (1949)

From a story by

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948)

The Hunted (1948)

Original story and Screenplay

That's My Man (1947)

Lady in the Lake (1947)

Dead Reckoning (1947)

Song of the Thin Man (1947)

Johnny Angel (1945)

Destination Tokyo (1944)

Berlin Correspondent (1942)

Original Screenplay

To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)

Writer (Special)

Man on a Raft (1958)

Special Thanks (Special)

Man on a Raft (1958)

Life Events

Videos

Tokyo Joe (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Close To The Bar Opening scenes from the second feature from Humphrey Bogart's startup Santana Pictures, including the first footage (second-unit exteriors, seen here) shot by an American company in Japan since the war, with the star as would-be saloon owner Joe Barrett, arriving in town in Tokyo Joe, 1949.

Tokyo Joe (1949) -- (Movie Clip) I Got Wise To Myself Just returned to Tokyo, American Joe (Humphrey Bogart) drops in to visit Trina (Florence Marley), the wife he abandoned before the war, and whom he had believed was dead, in Tokyo Joe, 1949, the second film from Bogart's own Santana Productions.

Lady In The Lake (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Imagine You Needing Ice Cubes! Audrey Totter (as editor "Adrienne Fromset") is the subject of director-star Robert Montgomery's camera, who, as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, appears in a mirror, in this early scene from Lady In The Lake, 1947.

Lady In The Lake (1947) -- (Movie Clip) My Name Is Marlowe Director and star Robert Montgomery in his introduction of himself, as Raymond Chandler's detective, and "you," as the first-hand viewer, beginning the subjective-camera feature Lady In The Lake, 1947.

Lady In The Lake (1947) -- (Movie Clip) You Like Our Jail? Director-star Robert Montgomery, in his subjective-camera experiment, playing Raymond Chandler's "Philip Marlowe," sees Lloyd Nolan ("Lt. DeGarmot") and Capt. Kane (Tom Tully) in The Lady In The Lake, 1947.

Lady In The Lake (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits Give director and star Robert Montgomery credit right off the bat, going full-Christmas with the opening credits, then hitting the sour note, in the subjective-camera experiment Lady In The Lake, 1947, from Raymond Chandler's novel.

Destination Tokyo (1943) -- (Movie Clip) I Never Seen A Doll On A Submarine Officers under command of Captain Cassidy (Cary Grant) take the U.S.S. Copperfin out, crewmen Tin Can (Dane Clark), Mike (Tom Tully), Cookie (Alan Hale) and Wolf (John Garfield) introduced, in Delmer Daves' Destination Tokyo, 1943.

Destination Tokyo (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Jap Float Zeroes Surfaced in the Aleutians to pick up Raymond (John Ridgely), Cassidy (Cary Grant) in command as Japanese planes strike, Wolf (John Garfield) and Mike (Tom Tully) among the defenders, impressive action in Destination Tokyo, 1943.

Destination Tokyo (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Join Us In Holding Our Breath The climax of a lengthy suspense sequence, Cary Grant as the steely Captain Cassidy guides the U.S.S. Copperfin into Tokyo Bay, through a mine-field, in the draught of a Japanese cruiser, keeping silent, John Ridgely, Warner Anderson, John Alvin among the crew, in DestinationTokyo, 1943.

Hunted, The (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Why Else Do Guys Drink? Having just helped his now-paroled ex-girlfriend, whom he sent to jail, and who maintains her innocence, find a new job, cop Johnny (Preston Foster) drops in on barkeep Joe (George Chandler), who remembers the case, in The Hunted, 1948, from director Jack Bernhard and writer Steve Fisher.

Hunted, The (1948) -- (Movie Clip) This Case Had A Queer Twist Cracking opening, from the last frame of credits, cop Johnny (Preston Foster) at a Los Angeles bus station, tracking (we’ll learn) Belita as paroled Laura, then meeting with ladies’ parole officer Miss Turner (Edna Holland), in The Hunted, 1948, from Allied Artists and director Jack Bernhard.

Hunted, The (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Lovely, But Still A Liar Still inquiring about his ex-girlfriend, for whom he’s just found a job, after she spent four years in prison, for a crime she claims she didn’t commit, and for which he sent her up, cop Johnny (Preston Foster) visits her lawyer Rand (Pierre Watkin), who, like him, she once swore to kill, in The Hunted, 1948.

I Wake Up Screaming (1941) -- Rough Cut Trailer A not-completed trailer from 20th Century-Fox, with no graphics or voice-over but a handful of slick edit effects and tasty bits of Betty Grable, Carole Landis and Victor Mature in the lead roles, in the early-Noir based on a Steve Fisher novel, I Wake Up Screaming, 1941.

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