By Nicholas Stix
The Wright Brothers?
Ike?
MacArthur?
Patton?
Harry Truman?
George Corley Marshall?
Einstein? (Can I count him as an American?)
Thomas Alva Edison?
T.R.?
Senator McCarthy?
Louis B. Mayer?
Harry Cohn?
D.W. Griffith?
C.B. de Mille?
Colonel McCormick?
Harry Houdini?
Frank Capra?
Fiorello LaGuardia?
Sinatra?
Mickey Rooney?
Jimmy Stewart?
According to TCM’s Red Eddie Muller, it was none of them. Instead, it was a sometime journalist, World War II commando, and writer, producer, and director of B pictures, Samuel Fuller.
And if that ain’t a kick in the head, Sam Fuller wrote, produced, and directed one of the greatest anti-Communist pictures ever made, Pickup on South Street (1953)!
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Eddie Muller did a good job in his outro to The Crimson Kimono. When he pitched the story with the interracial romance, the studio head told Sam Fuller to make the Caucasian detective (Glenn Corbett) a "miserable guy," Fuller refused and insisted on Corbett being "solid and upstanding." The Japanese detective James Shigeta got the girl but Fuller shows Shigeta's character to be the real racist in suspecting his friend of prejudice when the Glenn Corbett character was not.
Also the studio promoted the interracial angle and Eddie said this was not what Fuller wanted.
I saw Sam Fuller's two Korean War movies (The Steel Helmet and Fixed Bayonets) on TV when in high school and they were pro-American and anti-Communist.
I sent you the DVD of Fized Bayonets a year or so ago.
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