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Samuel Michael Fuller was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, of Jewish parents, Rebecca (née Baum) and Benjamin Fuller. [4] His father died in 1923 when Samuel was 11. After immigrating to the United States, the family's surname was changed from Rabinovitch to Fuller, a name possibly inspired by Samuel Fuller (Pilgrim), a doctor who arrived in America on the Mayflow
When Sam Fuller joined the project, he rewrote the script and retitled it Caine. He shared writing credit with John Kingsbridge. [1] Fuller later said "I liked the idea of making a story where, for once, the hero is really the heavy, the heavy is the girl, there's another heavy, and you find out in the end they're all heavies." [5]
Variety offered positive contemporary review: "Good Samuel Fuller programmer about a prostie trying the straight route, The Naked Kiss is primarily a vehicle for Constance Towers. Hooker angles and sex perversion plot windup are handled with care, alternating with handicapped children 'good works' theme ...
Fuller was acquainted with a Nisei that worked for the LAPD as a detective, who became the basis of the Joe character. Columbia Studios head of production Sam Briskin went with the pitch for the film even after trying to get Fuller to make the "white guy a sonofabitch", which Fuller firmly disagreed with when it came to making a love story.
The Dark Page is a 1944 novel by Samuel Fuller, who later went on to become a film director and helm the likes of I Shot Jesse James and the film noir The Naked Kiss.. It was written while Fuller was an infantryman in the army in WWII [2] and was filmed as Scandal Sheet (1952).
S. B. Fuller (June 4, 1905 – October 24, 1988) was an American entrepreneur.
Pickup on South Street is a 1953 American spy film noir written and directed by Samuel Fuller, and starring Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, and Thelma Ritter. [5] Widmark plays a pickpocket who unwittingly steals a covert microfilm sought by foreign agents.
The Rainy Daze was a psychedelic pop group formed in Denver, Colorado in 1965. They were composed of singer/guitarist Tim Gilbert with his brother Kip on drums, lead guitarist Mac Ferris, bassist Sam Fuller, and keyboardist Bob Heckendorf.