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Cyril J. Mockridge has 0 scores in the Nutevio catalogue.
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Cyril J. Mockridge has 0 scores in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are rewatchability, visual style, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
Mockridge set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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Lamar Trotti
Producer
4 shared titles · The Ox-Bow Incident

Otto Preminger
Director
3 shared titles · River of No Return

John Ford
Director
3 shared titles · My Darling Clementine

Henry Fonda
Actor
2 shared titles · The Ox-Bow Incident

Dana Andrews
Actor
2 shared titles · The Ox-Bow Incident

Gene Tierney
Actor
2 shared titles · Heaven Can Wait

George Seaton
Director
2 shared titles · Miracle on 34th Street

Ernst Lubitsch
Director
2 shared titles · Heaven Can Wait
Joseph LaShelle
Director of Photography
2 shared titles · River of No Return
Samuel G. Engel
Producer
2 shared titles · My Darling Clementine

Willis Goldbeck
Producer
2 shared titles · The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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