Enterprise Company

Japanese: エンタープライズ・カンパニー - えんたーぷらいずかんぱにー
Enterprise Company

...After working as assistant director on films such as J. Renoir's "A Southern Man" (1945), W. Wellman's "GI Joe" (1946), L. Milestone's "Arc de Triomphe" (1948), M. Ophuls's "Enchanted" (1949), and C. Chaplin's "Limelight" (1950), he started out by making television series, and with his rapid-fire technique and journalistic sensibility, he directed sports films from the baseball film "Big Leaguer" (1953) to the football film "The Longest Yard" (1974), as well as "Apache" and "Veracruz" (both 1954). These include westerns from "Kiss Me" (1955) to "Wild Apaches" (1972), crime films from "Kiss Me" (1955) to "Elegy to a Scarred Life" (1970), Hollywood inside stories from "The Big Knife" (1955) to "Scent of a Woman" (1968), melodramas from "Autumn Leaves" (1955) to "The Hustle" (1975), war films from "Attack on Titan" (1956) to "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) and "Dr. Jane" (1969), the ancient history drama "Sodom and Gomorrah" (1961), and horror films known as "Hollywood Gothic", such as "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?". He shot whatever he could get his hands on, from The Enterprise Company (1962), The Great Gatsby (1964), the Sinatra family western Four Men (1963), to comedies depicting the orgy of lecherous police officers, The Choir Boys (1977). He also shot the western The Gunfighter (1960), written by Dalton Trumbo, with whom he had been associated since his days as a member of The Enterprise Company, a group of progressive filmmakers who were forced out of Hollywood by the Red Scare. He favored using such distinctive actors, with their distinctive teeth, jaws, and eyes, and their intense aggressiveness, as Burt Lancaster, Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, and even older actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, to portray the sometimes grotesque, sometimes dynamic, Aldrich-esque human drama, in which the characters cunningly break the rules in a game of conflict and strife.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Enterprise Company" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…J.ルノアール《南部の人》(1945),W.ウェルマン《GIジョー》(1946),L.マイルストン《凱旋門》(1948),M.オフュルス《魅せられて》(1949),C.チャップリン《ライムライト》(1950)等々の助監督を経て,最初はテレビシリーズを作るところから始め,その早撮りのテクニックとジャーナリスティックな感覚で,野球映画《ビッグ・リーガー》(1953)からフットボール映画《ロンゲスト・ヤード》(1974)に至るスポーツ映画,《アパッチ》《ベラクルス》(ともに1954)から《ワイルド・アパッチ》(1972)に至る西部劇,《キッスで殺せ》(1955)から《傷だらけの挽歌》(1970)に至る犯罪映画,《ビッグ・ナイフ》(1955)から《女の香り》(1968)に至るハリウッドの内幕もの,《枯葉》(1955)から《ハッスル》(1975)に至るメロドラマ,《攻撃》(1956)から《特攻大作戦》(1967),《燃える戦場》(1969)に至る戦争映画,古代史劇《ソドムとゴモラ》(1961),〈ハリウッド・ゴシック〉などと呼ばれた恐怖映画《何がジェーンに起ったか?》(1962),《ふるえて眠れ》(1964),シナトラ一家の西部活劇《テキサスの4人》(1963)から好色警官の乱痴気騒ぎを描いた《クワイアボーイズ》(1977)に至る喜劇等々,手当りしだいに撮りまくった。一方では,赤狩りでハリウッドを追われることになる進歩的映画人が結成していた〈エンタープライズ・カンパニー〉に加わっていたころからの付合いで,ドルトン・トランボの脚本による西部劇《ガン・ファイター》(1960)なども撮っている。バート・ランカスター,ジャック・パランス,エディ・アルバート,アーネスト・ボーグナイン,リー・マービン,それに老女優のベティ・デービスやジョーン・クロフォードなど,歯やあごや目玉に特徴のある強烈な攻撃性のある個性的俳優たちを好んで使い,つねに対立と抗争のゲームの中であくどくルール違反をするアルドリッチ的人間模様を,ときにはグロテスクに,ときにはダイナミックに描いて見せた。…

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