Director

John Sturges

Directing: 1948 — 1976 · 23 films
Lived: 3 January 1910 — d. 1992
From: Oak Park, Illinois, USA

John Eliot Sturges was an American film director. His movies include Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963) and Ice Station Zebra (1968).

Career Signature

How John Sturges’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they directed.

kinetic urgency

crowd-pleaser

emotionally restrained

tightly wound

slow burn

Tonal kin

Budd Boetticher13 films

André de Toth13 films

Anthony Mann32 films

John Guillermin13 films

Don Siegel23 films

Henry Hathaway28 films

Tom Gries5 films

J. Lee Thompson26 films

How John Sturges’s filmography reads.

Filmography

The Eagle Has Landed

McQ

The Valdez Horses

Joe Kidd

Marooned

Ice Station Zebra

Hour of the Gun

The Hallelujah Trail

The Satan Bug

The Great Escape

The Magnificent Seven

Never So Few

Last Train from Gun Hill

The Old Man and the Sea

The Law and Jake Wade

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Backlash

Bad Day at Black Rock

Jeopardy

Escape from Fort Bravo

Mystery Street

The Walking Hills

The Sign of the Ram