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ANTHONY MANN

BEST DIRECTOR
1950 - 1953 - 1958 - 1964

Born - June 30, 1906 (San Diego, California)
Died - April 29, 1967 (Berlin, Germany)



Married - Sara Montiel (1956-1963)


First married in New York hospital 1956
"in articulo mortis" after Mann's first
heart attack. Second wedding in Beverly Hills,
March 30, 1957.

1st Heart Attack - 1956
Fatal Heart Attack - 1967

Real Name - Emil Anton Bundesmann or Bundmann



Dr. Broadway(1942)

Moonlight in Havana (1942)

Nobody's Darling (1943)

My Best Gal (1944)

Strangers in the Night (1944)

The Great Flamarion (1945)
My Grade - Flawed, but Worthy / B- / ***

Two O'Clock Courage (1945)
My Grade - Good / B / ***1/3

Sing Your Way Home (1945)
My Grade - Good / B / ***1/3

Strange Impersonation (1946)
My Grade - Dreadful / D / *3/4

The Bamboo Blonde (1946)
My Grade - Good / B / ***1/3

Desperate (1947) also co-story
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2

Railroaded (1947)
My Grade - Fair-to-Mediocre / C+ / **1/2

T-Men (1947)
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2

Raw Deal (1948)

My Grade - Outstanding / A- / ***3/4

He Walked By Night (1948) uncred co-dir with Alfred Werker
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2

Follow Me Quietly (1949) co-story &
uncred co-dir with Richard Fleischer

Reign of Terror (1949) (The Black Book (UK))
Release Date - October 15, 1949
My Grade - Flawed, but Worthy / B- / ***

Border Incident (1949)
Release Date - October 28, 1949
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2

The Devil's Doorway (1950)
Release Date - September 15, 1950
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2

Side Street (1950)
Release Date - March 23, 1950
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2

Winchester '73 (1950)

Release Date - July 12, 1950
Rentals - $2,250,000 million
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2

The Furies (1950)
Release Date - August 16, 1950
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2

The Tall Target (1951)

Release Date - August 17, 1951
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2

Quo Vadis (Mervyn LeRoy, 1951) uncr dir “Fire of Rome” sequence

Bend of the River (1952) (Where the River Bends (UK))
Release Date - Jan. 23, 1952
Film Rentals - $3,000,000 million
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2

The Naked Spur (1953)

Release Date - Feb. 1953
My Grade - Excellent / A / ****1/2

Thunder Bay (1953)
Release Date - May 21, 1953
My Grade - Between Fair & Mediocre / C+ / **1/2

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
Release Date - December 10, 1953
Film Rentals - $7,000,000 million
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2

The Far Country (1955)
Release Date - October 4, 1954
My Grade - Outstanding / A- / ***3/4

Strategic Air Command (1955)
Release Date - March 25, 1955
Film Rentals - $6,500,000 million
My Grade - Been There, Done That / C- / **

The Man from Laramie (1955)
Release Date - August 31, 1955
Film Rentals - $3,300,000 million
My Grade - Outstanding / A- / ***3/4

The Last Frontier (1955)
Release Date - December 7, 1955
My Grade - Between Fair & Mediocre / C / **1/2

Serenade (1956)
Release Date - March 23, 1956
My Grade - Good / B / ***1/3

Men In War (1957)

Release Date - March 19, 1957
My Grade - Outstanding / A- / ****

The Tin Star (1957)
Release Date - October 23, 1957
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2

God's Little Acre (1958)
Release Date - August 13, 1958
My Grade - Flawed, but Worthy / B- / ***

Man of the West (1958)
Release Date - October 1, 1958
My Grade - Outstanding / A- / ****

Cimarron (1960)
Release Date - Feb. 16, 1961
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2


Spartacus (Anthony Mann/Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
Anthony Mann is the uncredited director of the film. 
Having been apart of every aspect of the pre-production
process and directed the first two weeks worth of
work for all the scenes in the Salt Mine, which
were filmed in Death Valley, California. After
returning, producer Kirk Douglas fired Mann
from the film OR Anthony Mann resigned from the
film. Nobody is certain which story is correct. By
the next Monday, Stanley Kubrick was in L.A.
filming as the new director.
Studio - Universal
Release Date - October 6th, 1960
Filming Dates - January 27th, '59 - July 12th, '59
Running Time - 198 min.
Budget - $12,000,000 million
Box Office Gross
North America - $30,000,000 million
Overseas - $30,000,000 million
Worldwide - $60,000,000 million
Rentals - (U.S. only) $10,300,454 million
Cast:
Kirk Douglas...Spartacus
Laurence Olivier...Marcus Licinius Crassus
Jean Simmons...Varinia
Charles Laughton...Sempronius Gracchus
Peter Ustinov...Lentulus Batiatus
John Gavin...Julius Caesar
Nina Foch...Helena Glabrus
John Ireland...Crixus
Herbert Lom...Tigranes Levantus
John Dall...Marcus Publius Glabrus
Charles McGraw...Marcellus
Woody Strode...Draba
Tony Curtis...Antoninus
Crew:
Producer - Kirk Douglas
Screenplay - Dalton Trumbo
Soundtrack - Alex North
Cinematographer - Russell Metty
Editor - Robert Lawrence
Production Designer - Alexander Golitzen


El Cid (1961)

Studio - Allied Artists Pictures
Release Date - December 14, 1961
Running Time - 182 min.
Budget - $6.25-8 million (Largest for any film made in '61)
U.S. Box Office Total - $26,620,000 million
Film Rentals - $12,000,000 million
My Grade - Very Good / B+ / ***1/2
Cast:
Charlton Heston...El Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar)
Sophia Loren...Jimena
Douglas Wilmer...Montamin
Herbert Lom...Ben Yussuf
Crew:
Producer - Samuel Bronston
Screenplay - Philip Yordan, Fredric M. Frank,
& Ben Barzman
Soundtrack - Miklos Rozsa
Cinematographer - Robert Krasker
Editor - Robert Lawrence
Production Designer - Veniero Colasanti & John Moore


The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

The Roman Forum set (above) still holds the record
for the largest outdoor set ever built for a film at
1312 by 754 ft.

Studio - Paramount Pictures
Release Date - March 26, 1964
Running Time - 188 min.
Budget - $19,000,000 million
U.S. Box Office Total - $4,750,000 million
Film Rentals - $1,900,000 million
Filming Dates - October 1962 - April 1963
My Grade - Excellent / A / ****3/4
Cast:
Sophia Loren...Lucilla
Stephen Boyd...Livius
Alec Guinness...Marcus Aurelius
James Mason...Timonides
Christopher Plummer...Commodus
Anthony Quayle...Verulus
John Ireland...Ballomar
Omar Sharif...Sohamus
Mel Ferrer...Cleander
Finlay Currie...Senator
Eric Porter...Julianus
Andrew Keir...Polybius
Douglas Wilmer...Niger
George Murcell...Victorinus
Norman Wooland...Virgilianus
Crew:
Producer - Samuel Bronston
Screenplay - Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina, &
Philip Yordan
Soundtrack - Dimitri Tiomkin
Cinematographer - Robert Krasker
Editor - Robert Lawrence
Production Designers - Veniero Colasanti & John Moore




The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Studio - Columbia Pictures
U.S. Release Date - 9th March 1966
Running Time - 131 min.
My Grade - Good / B / ***1/3
Cast:
Kirk Douglas...Dr. Rolf Pedersen
Richard Harris...Knut Straud
Ulla Jacobsson...Anna Pedersen
Sir Michael Redgrave...Uncle
Crew:
Producer - Benjamin Fisz
Screenplay - Ben Barzman & Ivan Moffat
Soundtrack - Malcolm Arnold
Cinematographer - Robert Krasker
Editor - Maude Spector


A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Studio - Columbia Pictures
Running Time - 107 min.
direction completed by Laurence Harvey
when Mann died of a heart attack [uncred]
Release Date - April 2, 1968
My Grade - Between Fair & Mediocre / C / **1/2
Cast:
Laurence Harvey...Alexander Eberlin
Tom Courtenay...Gatiss
Mia Farrow...Caroline
Harry Andrews...Fraser
Lionel Stander...Sobakevich
Peter Cook...Prentiss
Per Oscarsson...Pavel
Norman Bird...Copperfield
Crew:
Producer - Anthony Mann
Screenplay - Derek Marlowe
Soundtrack - Quincy Jones
Cinematographer - Christopher Challis
Editor - Thelma Connell

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* - Bend of the River, Winchester '73,
The Glenn Miller Story, Strategic Air
Command, & The Far Country cost a total
of $5 million to make, yet grossed $27
million in Film Rentials at the domestic
box office.



1967 Anthony Mann Interview:
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cine_doc_detail.pl/cine_img?31045?31045?1