Gehring, Wes D. <br/><br/>
Robert Wise :  shadowlands ; a Wes D. Gehring biography. 

 - 1 online resource (351 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-322) and filmography. 
<br/><br/>The early years -- A career detour: 1930s Hollywood -- Orson Welles -- Val Lewton and becoming a director -- Lewton and Maupassant: a template picture -- Wise's first noir classic: Born to kill -- Signature cinema: the set-up -- Life after RKO: The day the earth stood still and genre diversity -- Melodrama in various war settings: Run silent, run deep as metaphor -- "portraits" and biographies doubling as melodramas and/or noirs -- Wise's brass-ring decade: the 1960s -- Filmmaking: "a terribly expensive paint box" -- Epilogue. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780871953476 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Wise, Robert, 1914-2005. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1998.3.W569  / G46 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.4302/33092  B