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Hans J. Salter has 0 scores in the Nutevio catalogue.
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Composer in the Nutevio catalogue.
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Hans J. Salter has 0 scores in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, 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.
Salter 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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Lon Chaney Jr.
Actor
6 shared titles · Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Curt Siodmak
Screenplay
6 shared titles · Invisible Agent

George Waggner
Producer
6 shared titles · Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Milton Krasner
Director of Photography
5 shared titles · The Spoilers

Lionel Atwill
Actor
4 shared titles · Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Evelyn Ankers
Actor
4 shared titles · Son of Dracula
George Robinson
Director of Photography
4 shared titles · Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Cedric Hardwicke
Actor
3 shared titles · Invisible Agent

Bela Lugosi
Actor
3 shared titles · Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Samuel S. Hinds
Actor
3 shared titles · Son of Dracula

Henry Mancini
Original Music Composer
3 shared titles · Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Herman Stein
Original Music Composer
3 shared titles · The Incredible Shrinking Man
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