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Burnett Guffey

Burnett Guffey

While still a teenager, the future Academy Award-winning lensman began as an assistant cameraman in 1923 on John Ford's 1924 western saga The Iron Horse. He was then hired by the Famous Players-Lasky Studios in 1927, became a camera operator in 1928 and worked there until 1943. Guffey was hired as a Director of Photography by Columbia Pictures in 1944.

In 1957-58 he served as president of the American Society of Cinematographers (A.S.C.) for a year, and had been a long standing member.

According to film critic Spencer Selby, Guffey was a prolific film noir cinematographer, shooting 20 of them, including In a Lonely Place (1950).

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Movies Made By Burnett Guffey (86)

The Steagle (1971)

In the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, a mild-mannered professor decides to live out all of his daydreams, travelling across the country and adopting a different persona in each city. ...

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The Great White Hope (1970)

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down. ...

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Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)

War is brewing between the soldiers at an otherwise quiet army base and the civilians of a nearby Southern town. Brian Keith is an officer who tries to keep the peace. However, peace is hard to come by with Ernest Borgnine as a stereotypical dumb hick sher ...

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Halls of Anger (1970)

An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help. ...

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The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)

An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" aga ...

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Some Kind of a Nut (1969)

A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard. ...

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The Learning Tree (1969)

The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambiti ...

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Where It's At (1969)

A "Sixties Generation" comedy about an offbeat father-son relationship. Dad runs a Las Vegas hotel-casino and his son is a college student with a different set of moral and ethical standards. When they meet in Vegas, they immediately clash in their efforts ...

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The Split (1968)

A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium. ...

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The Ambushers (1967)

When an experimental flying saucer crashes, secret agent Matt Helm has to bring back the secret weapons hidden on board. ...

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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. ...

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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business. ...

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The Silencers (1966)

Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III. ...

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King Rat (1965)

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good li ...

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Good Neighbor Sam (1964)

To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance. ...

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Flight from Ashiya (1964)

Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors from a mur ...

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Kid Galahad (1962)

After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing. ...

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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses i ...

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Mr. Sardonicus (1961)

In 1880, Sir Robert Cargrave, a London physician known for his experimental work in paralysis treatment, is summoned to Gorslava by the mysterious Baron Sardonicus—who is now married to Cargrave's former wife, Maude—to treat his disfigurement. When Car ...

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Homicidal (1961)

A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair-bound mute named Helga, who was the childhood guardian of a pair of siblings: Miriam Webster and her half ...

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Cry for Happy (1961)

Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house. ...

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Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like ...

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Hell to Eternity (1960)

Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his foster family is interned at the Manzanar camp for Japanese Americans, while he enlists in the Marines, wher ...

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The Mountain Road (1960)

In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfiel ...

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Edge of Eternity (1959)

Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a chase by car and hel ...

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They Came to Cordura (1959)

An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916. ...

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Gidget (1959)

Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf and soon she's accepted and given the ...

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Dogface (1959)

This unaired pilot for a series Fuller pitched to CBS about a U.S. infantry troop fighting its way through Nazi-held North Africa offers a fascinating new angle on Fuller's relationship with the average foot soldier and moral complexity of war. ...

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Me and the Colonel (1958)

Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel Prokoszny, who harbors a bias against Jews. They are soon joined by Prokoszny's bride-to-be, Suzanne, who ...

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Screaming Mimi (1958)

A blonde night club dancer is being stalked. Will anyone believe her? ...

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The True Story of Lynn Stuart (1958)

When the nephews of Phyllis Carter are killed in an automobile crash while under the influence of narcotics, she persuades Police Lieutenant Jim Hahan to use her as an undercover agent. ...

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Decision at Sundown (1957)

A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death. ...

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The Brothers Rico (1957)

Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who are on the lam after a big hit, forcing ...

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The Strange One (1957)

A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets. ...

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Not One Shall Die (1957)

A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core crew of many Columbia noirs, including cinematographer Burnett Guffey, art director Cary Odell, editor Al C ...

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Nightfall (1956)

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit. ...

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Storm Center (1956)

Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly labeled a Communist. ...

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The Harder They Fall (1956)

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punc ...

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Battle Stations (1956)

The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet. ...

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Three Stripes in the Sun (1955)

A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman. ...

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Count Three and Pray (1955)

A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War. ...

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Tight Spot (1955)

A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her. ...

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The Violent Men (1955)

A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay ...

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Private Hell 36 (1954)

In New York City, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate and are led from the drugstore to a nightclub, where ...

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Human Desire (1954)

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train. ...

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The Bamboo Prison (1954)

A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners. ...

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From Here to Eternity (1953)

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love. ...

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The Last Posse (1953)

A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded. ...

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Assignment: Paris (1952)

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador. ...

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The Sniper (1952)

Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the polic ...

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Scandal Sheet (1952)

A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself. ...

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The Family Secret (1951)

When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder. ...

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Two of a Kind (1951)

A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son. ...

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Sirocco (1951)

A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria. ...

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Emergency Wedding (1950)

Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients. He makes a fool of himself trying to prove her guilt. ...

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Convicted (1950)

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted. ...

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In a Lonely Place (1950)

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts. ...

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Father Is a Bachelor (1950)

Johnny Rutledge is a drifter who comes to and discovers a cabin in the forest where five kids: January, February, March, April, and May are living without parents. Their parents died a while ago, and they want to keep that secret from the townspeople, espe ...

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The Reckless Moment (1949)

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal. ...

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And Baby Makes Three (1949)

A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents. ...

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All the King's Men (1949)

A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack. ...

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The Undercover Man (1949)

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officer ...

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Knock on Any Door (1949)

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court. ...

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The Gallant Blade (1948)

Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler. ...

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The Sign of the Ram (1948)

A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged. ...

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To the Ends of the Earth (1948)

A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring. ...

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Framed (1947)

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert. ...

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Johnny O'Clock (1947)

When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's ...

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So Dark the Night (1946)

Inspector Cassin, a renowned Paris detective, departs to the country for a much-needed break. There he falls in love with the innkeeper's daughter, Nanette, who is already betrothed to a local farmer. On the evening of their engagement party, Nanette and t ...

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Gallant Journey (1946)

Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn Ford.) In 1883 he built a practical glider despite the opposition of his friends, who thought he was crazy, an ...

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Night Editor (1946)

A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall. ...

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A Bird in the Head (1946)

The stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of Professor Panzer, a mad scientist looking for a brain to use in his experiments. The professor wants to put a human brain into a gorilla but has trouble finding a brain small enough, which leads him to ...

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The Notorious Lone Wolf (1946)

Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft. ...

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Meet Me on Broadway (1946)

Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a posh country club. Eddie and his girlfriend, actress Ann Stallings, hope the production will launch their legitimate Broadway careers. But complications arise w ...

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My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)

Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house in different clothes and with a new identity. ...

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Blonde from Brooklyn (1945)

A brash young singer and an unemployed "jukebox girl" hire an elderly Confederate "colonel" to teach them to be "southern" so they can land a radio gig for sponsor Plantation Coffee. ...

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Eve Knew Her Apples (1945)

Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hi ...

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I Love a Mystery (1945)

In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him. ...

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Eadie Was a Lady (1945)

In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house. But trouble starts when her boss (William Wright) decides to build her up as a star. One of the many bread-and-bu ...

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Tahiti Nights (1944)

During World War Two, an American band leader, Jack (Dave O'Brien) arrives on a Tahitian island , and via a chain of unexpected events, soon finds himself soon about to be betrothed to Luana (Jinx Falkenburg), the princess of a local tribe. ...

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Kansas City Kitty (1944)

A piano teacher and her roommate decide to invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music. ...

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The Soul of a Monster (1944)

A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive? ...

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Sailor's Holiday (1944)

In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women. ...

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You Only Live Once (1937)

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after ...

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The Informer (1935)

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his be ...

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The Conquerors (1932)

A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire. ...

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Movies Starring Burnett Guffey (2)

My Father: Gordon Parks (1969)

A documentary made on the set of "The Learning Tree." Narrated by Gordon Parks Jr., and featuring interviews with Gordon Parks Sr. and members of the cast and crew. ...

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The Moviemakers (1969)

A featurette that shows director Gordon Parks on location for the film The Learning Tree. ...

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