Match Cut Director Consensus - William Wyler

[dreamdead]

The Heiress – 8.25 (8)
The Best Years of Our Lives – 8.0556 (9)
Dodsworth – 8 (5)
The Desperate Hours – 7.9 (5)
Roman Holiday – 7.8182 (11)
Wuthering Heights – 7.4444 (9)
Jezebel – 7.4167 (6)
Detective Story – 7.4 (5)
The Letter – 7.1 (5)
Ben Hur – 7.0625 (8)
The Collector – 7 (6)
The Little Foxes – 7 (4)
Mrs. Miniver – 6.3 (5)

Did not Qualify:
Hell’s Heroes – 9 (1)
The Westerner – 8.25 (2)
The Good Fairy – 7.5 (3)
Dead End – 7.5 (3)
How to Steal a Million – 7 (2)
These Three – 7 (2)
Counselor at Law – 6.5 (2)
The Children’s Hour – 6.5 (2)
Funny Girl – 6.3333 (3)
The Big Country – 5 (1)
Friendly Persuasion – 4.5 (1)

Most Viewed: Antoine
Discarded Roman Holiday: Ezee E (any further reasons? Where did you stop in the narrative?)

[Mysterious Dude]

I was pretty surprised at how many I had seen. It wasn't intentional.

I can't quite pin this Wyler guy down. He goes from directing the huge epic Ben-Hur to the intimate drama The Children's Hour. He's very good, but his filmography is so varied that I wonder if he actually cared about any of the movies he made, or if it was just a job to him (a job to make "prestige" films). I definitely wouldn't call him an auteur.

[Morris Schæffer]

Ben-Hur: 9.5

Love it!

[SirNewt]

Heston, man. Heston.

Plus, it's dreadfully overlong. I don't remember much else, but that sort of "epic" Biblical film just isn't my thing. It's all so damned... pompous and in love with its grandiosity. On the bright side, that's a higher score than The Ten Commandments gets! That's something, right?

Not really, that's kind of like saying you like anything better than crimes against humanity.

[StanleyK]

Hell's Heroes - 5.5
Counsellor at Law - 7
The Good Fairy - 7
These Three - 5.5
Dodsworth - 8.5
Come and Get It - 7
Dead End - 7
Jezebel - 7
Wuthering Heights - 8.5
The Westerner - 7
The Letter - 7
The Little Foxes - 8.5
Mrs. Miniver - 8.5
The Best Years of Our Lives - 8.5
The Heiress - 8.5
Detective Story - 5.5
Carrie - 7
Roman Holiday - 8.5
The Desperate Hours - 8.5
Friendly Persuasion - 5.5
The Big Country - 8.5
Ben-Hur - 7
The Children's Hour - 5.5
The Collector - 7
How to Steal a Million - 7
Funny Girl - 5.5
The Liberation of L.B. Jones - 7



He never quite managed to make a masterpiece, and he's probably nobody's favorite director, but that level of consistency and quality is rare and commendable.