Highest rated movie: The Sleeping City (1950)
Lowest rated movie: Santa Fe Stampede (1938)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by George Sherman? Cinafilm has a total of 252 reviews across 30 movies directed by George Sherman.
Movies from this director have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average rating of 56%.
The Sleeping City is George Sherman's highest rated movie, with a score of 75% based on 2 reviews.
The lowest rated film from George Sherman is Santa Fe Stampede, with a score of 43% based on 2 reviews.
American second feature director who arrived in California aboard the SS Mongolia (bound from New York) on which he served as a bellboy. Sherman began his career in the movie business in the mail room at Warner Brothers before working his way up to assistant director. By 1937, he had graduated to directing in his own right under contract with Republic. Sherman specialised almost exclusively in B-westerns, (including the "Three Mesqueteers" series, which featured a young John Wayne), with occasional forays into action and horror themes. He often achieved a sense of style over substance. Indeed, as to his handling of the 'Mesqueteers', Variety commented on his imparting a "poetry in motion" to his "unified timing of cowboys mounting, riding, wheeling, galloping and dismounting of steeds" (July 2 1939). From 1940, Sherman also served as associate producer on many of his films.
The diminutive (five foot) Sherman turned out reliable low-budget fare for Columbia between 1945 and 1948, then moved on to do the same at Universal for another eight years. Thereafter, he turned to free-lancing and working in television. The only A-grade films to his credit were two westerns, starring John Wayne: The Comancheros (1961), as producer; and Big Jake (1971), as director.
George Sherman has directed films starring John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune and Maureen O'Hara.
George Sherman has collaborated with these film directors: Henry Levin, Giuliano Carnimeo and Ewing Scott.
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