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John Sturges
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John Eliot Sturges (/ˈstɜːrdʒɪs/; January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. His films include Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963), and Ice Station Zebra (1968). In 2013, The Magnificent Seven and 2018, Bad Day at Black Rock were selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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The Eagle Has Landed
McQ
The Valdez Horses
Joe Kidd
Marooned
Ice Station Zebra
Hour of the Gun
The Hallelujah Trail
The Satan Bug
The Great Escape
A Girl Named Tamiko
Sergeants 3
By Love Possessed
The Magnificent Seven
Never So Few
Last Train from Gun Hill
The Old Man and the Sea
The Law and Jake Wade
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Backlash
Underwater!
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Scarlet Coat
Escape from Fort Bravo
Fast Company
Jeopardy
The Girl in White
The People Against O'Hara
Kind Lady
It's a Big Country: An American Anthology
Right Cross
Mystery Street
The Capture
The Magnificent Yankee
The Walking Hills
Best Man Wins
The Sign of the Ram
Thunderbolt
Keeper of the Bees
For the Love of Rusty
Alias Mr. Twilight
Shadowed
The Man Who Dared
