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David Challinor · 15-09-2005, 10:09 AM

....thanks for scaring rigid with The Haunting (1963) ....!

DB7 · 15-09-2005, 10:35 AM

Robert Wise, Hollywood legend, dies at 91

Xan Brooks
Thursday September 15, 2005

King of the musical ... Robert Wise, flanked by Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews, receives a lifetime achievement award in 1998. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/AP

Robert Wise, director of The Sound of Music, died yesterday at the age of 91. The four-time Oscar-winner was reported to have suffered heart failure and passed away at the UCLA Medical Centre in Los Angeles.
Wise's Hollywood career spanned seven decades. The youngest son of an Indiana meatpacker, Wise came to Hollywood as a teenager and took a job as a message boy at RKO studios. In the 1930s he worked as a sound effects editor on the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals Top Hat and The Gay Divorcee. In 1941 he edited Orson Welles's landmark Citizen Kane and collaborated with Welles again on the 1942 drama The Magnificent Ambersons.

Wise made his directing debut with the cult 1943 horror film Curse of the Cat People and worked in various genres throughout his career. However, he remains most closely associated with the musical. He won an Oscar for co-directing West Side Story alongside Jerome Robbins and picked up another for his 1965 blockbuster The Sound of Music.
His last major film was 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture, after which he slipped into semi-retirement. He was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the American Film Institute in 1998, and directed a TV-movie, A Storm in Summer, in 2000.

Marky B · 15-09-2005, 11:21 AM

Perhaps one of the most versatile directors in Hollywood:Somebody Up There Likes Me,West Side Story,The Sound Of Music,Star,Star Trek:The Motion Picture. For he re-invented the musical with the sublime West Side Story,which is still for my money not only the finest musical ever,but the best musical film,which paid tribute to the old style musical,but paved the way for the modern musical. The opening credits and the panoramic view of New York,homing into the west side still ranks - along with sumptious opening of The Sound Of Music - as one of the finest in motion picture history.
R.I.P. Robert and thank you.
Ta Ta
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smudge · 15-09-2005, 03:50 PM

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May I echo that sentiment...

RIP Robert.

SMUDGE

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Third Man · 15-09-2005, 06:14 PM

Robert Wise is responsible for probally the best boxing film of all time 'The Set-Up'.

Filmed in real time and starring Robert Ryan, it's a classic film noir, not to be missed.

Billy Liar · 15-09-2005, 06:44 PM

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(Third Man @ Sep 15 2005, 06:14 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
Robert Wise is responsible for probally the best boxing film of all time 'The Set-Up'.

Filmed in real time and starring Robert Ryan, it's a classic film noir, not to be missed.
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One of the true greats of Noir, and one that was a huge influence on Raging Bull. I prefer the pure evilness of Born To Kill one of the most depraved movies ever. Let's also not forget his horror films The Curse of The Cat People & The Body Snatcher. Who could forget The Day The Earth Stood Still.

He's left us some wonderful films behind.

R.I.P.

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DB7 is scavenging through life's very constant lulls Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Shrops Posts: 6,186 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (10)	Robert Wise, Hollywood legend, dies at 91 Xan Brooks Thursday September 15, 2005 King of the musical ... Robert Wise, flanked by Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews, receives a lifetime achievement award in 1998. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/AP Robert Wise, director of The Sound of Music, died yesterday at the age of 91. The four-time Oscar-winner was reported to have suffered heart failure and passed away at the UCLA Medical Centre in Los Angeles. Wise's Hollywood career spanned seven decades. The youngest son of an Indiana meatpacker, Wise came to Hollywood as a teenager and took a job as a message boy at RKO studios. In the 1930s he worked as a sound effects editor on the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals Top Hat and The Gay Divorcee. In 1941 he edited Orson Welles's landmark Citizen Kane and collaborated with Welles again on the 1942 drama The Magnificent Ambersons. Wise made his directing debut with the cult 1943 horror film Curse of the Cat People and worked in various genres throughout his career. However, he remains most closely associated with the musical. He won an Oscar for co-directing West Side Story alongside Jerome Robbins and picked up another for his 1965 blockbuster The Sound of Music. His last major film was 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture, after which he slipped into semi-retirement. He was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the American Film Institute in 1998, and directed a TV-movie, A Storm in Summer, in 2000.

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