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Thread: Match Cut Director Consensus - William Wyler

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    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)

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    Discarded Roman Holiday: Ezee E (any further reasons? Where did you stop in the narrative?)
    The Boat People - 9
    The Power of the Dog - 7.5
    The King of Pigs - 7

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    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.

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    Ben-Hur: 9.5

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    Quote Quoting Raiders (view post)
    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.





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    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.

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