(Applause Books).
Martin Scorsese, from the book\'s introduction.
Publishers Weekly
If you don\'t like the films of Sam Fuller, then you just don\'t like cinema.
Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Fuller\'s last work is a joy and an important addition to film and popular culture literature.
A Third Face is a grand, lively, rambunctious memoir.
Fuller wasn\'t one for tactful understatement and his hot-blooded, incident-packed autobiography is accordingly blunt ...
A Third Face was completed by Jerome Henry Rudes, Fuller\'s longtime friend, and his wife, Christa Lang Fuller.
He lived in Los Angeles with his wife and their daughter.
In addition to his work in film, Samuel Fuller (1911-1997) wrote eleven novels.
Confidential ), a film so controversial that Paramount\'s then studio heads Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner refused to release it.
Fuller\'s other films include Pickup on South Street
Underworld U.
S.
A., a movie that shows how gangsters in the 1960s were seen as respected tax-paying executives
Shock Corridor, which exposed the conditions in mental institutions; and White Dog, written in collaboration with Curtis Hanson ( L.
A.
His years in the army in World War II are captured in his hugely successful pictures The Big Red One, The Steel Helmet and Merrill\'s Marauders .
He writes about hitchhiking across the country at the height of the Great Depression.
His film Park Row was inspired by his years in the New York newspaper business, where his beat included murders, suicides, state executions and race riots.
His 29 tough, gritty films made from 1949 to 1989 set out to capture the truth of war, racism and human frailties, and incorporate some of his own experiences.
Winner of Best Non-Fiction for 2002 Award from the Los Angeles Times Book Review! Samuel Fuller was one of the most prolific and independent writer-director-producers in Hollywood. (Applause Books)
