Mervyn LeRoy

An Essential: The Asphalt Jungle

Sep 14, 2018 Nathanael Hood 0

The Asphalt Jungle is the film that made director John Huston the father of Jean-Pierre Melville and the grandfather of Michael Mann and Steven Soderbergh. It was from this mean little film that the fundamental […]

The Brutal Beauty of I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (1932)

Aug 6, 2014 The Retro Set 1

By Carley Johnson Director Mervyn LeRoy’s filmography feels like an emotional pendulum: from fluffy escapism, (Gold Diggers of 1933) to family fantasies (he produced The Wizard of Oz, 1939) to sand-and-sandal epics (Quo Vadis, 1951) […]