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Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director. He won Academy Awards as Best Director for The Sound of Music (1965) and West Side Story (1961) as well as nominations as Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and Best Picture for The Sand Pebbles (1966).
Among his other films are Born to Kill; Destination Gobi; The Hindenburg; Star Trek: The Motion Picture; The Day the Earth Stood Still; Run Silent, Run Deep; The Andromeda Strain; The Set-Up; The Haunting; and The Body Snatcher. Wise's working period spanned the 1930s to the 1990s.
Often contrasted with contemporary "auteur" directors such as Stanley Kubrick who tended to bring a distinctive directorial "look" to a particular genre, Wise is famously viewed to have allowed his (sometimes studio assigned) story to dictate style. Later critics such as Martin Scorsese would go on to expand that characterization, insisting that despite Wise's notorious workaday concentration on stylistic perfection within the confines of genre and budget, his choice of subject matter and approach still functioned to identify Wise as an artist and not merely an artisan. Through whatever means, Wise's approach would bring him critical success as a director in many different traditional film genres: from horror to noir to Western to war films to science fiction, to musical and drama, with many repeat hits within each genre. Wise's tendency towards professionalism led to a degree of preparedness which, though nominally motivated by studio budget constraints, nevertheless advanced the moviemaking art, with many Academy Award-winning films the result. Robert Wise received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1998.
Most Popular Robert Wise Trailers
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01 August 2014
Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more.
02 March 1965
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
08 August 1996
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
01 January 1995
Documentary exploring the career of noted film directer William A. Wellman.
17 October 1941
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects.
06 April 1977
A man is convinced that a young girl is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before the girl was born.
15 November 1946
A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney's girlfriend is a singer.
30 April 1947
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
18 July 1968
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
02 February 1990
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder.
20 May 1953
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city.
17 April 1941
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist.
19 August 1943
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings.
30 April 1954
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
15 October 1959
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
01 April 1944
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
07 December 1979
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.
31 October 1953
A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there falls in love with a poor but big-hearted farmer.
17 September 1992
Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing.
08 October 1957
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
30 June 2001
A documentary about the 1951 sci-fi film "The Day the Earth Stood Still," featuring clips from the film and interviews with some of the cast and crew about the making of the film.
14 May 1943
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.
25 December 1975
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security.
21 November 1962
After leaving his wife, lawyer Jerry Ryan moves from Omaha, Nebraska to New York City to start a new life.
01 January 1999
Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the best screen tests are from the early years of legends.
28 September 1951
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
29 March 1949
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
27 March 1958
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job.
13 December 1961
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans compete against a gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, but this doesn't stop two romantics from each gang falling in love.
01 February 2014
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO.
01 October 1970
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to have children.
01 January 1965
Charmian Carr, who played Liesl in the movie "The Sound of Music", takes a tour of the Austrian town of Salzburg, where the location shots of the movie were made.
11 November 1948
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute.
26 March 1952
A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.
28 July 1944
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors.
25 May 1945
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver.
14 May 1957
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
13 November 1942
Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandfather -- a bequest that comes with a catch: before claiming the money, Johnny must marry a descendant of his great-grandfather's Civil War enemy, General Havelock-Allen.
12 March 1971
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency.
17 March 1989
T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed 'house', built on top of an old building in the city.
01 January 1996
American Documentary, narrated by Christopher Lee
01 January 1998
Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work?
23 November 1945
A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the madman hunts human prey for his personal island habitat.
30 August 1940
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque.
29 December 1939
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl.
09 December 1971
A hunter back from years in the Amazon finds his wife and life changed.
20 October 1950
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California.
10 July 1942
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
21 January 1997
The first half century of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation from its beginnings under Hungarian immigrant William Fox to it emergence as a major studio.
21 August 1948
Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent.
29 January 1996
Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941).
19 December 2004
Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema.
04 October 2005
Documentary about the great 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton, featured on the 2005 DVD release "The Val Lewton Horror Collection.
21 August 1963
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
13 December 1989
It was said of him that in more than 70 films, he never once gave a bad performance.
26 January 1956
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is.
17 May 1940
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying.
01 April 2003
Documentary attached to the 50th anniversary MGM Blu-ray collection of "West Side Story" (1961). Details how this successful stage production was reared and molded into a beautiful cinematic one.
22 September 1939
A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.
