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The Sci-fi Films of Robert Wise
Ryan Lambie, Den of Geek

Robert Wise directed The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Andromeda Strain and the first Star Trek film. Ryan takes a look back...

If you were asked to name a few of the great science fiction film directors, some answers would immediately spring to mind. Stanley Kubrick, perhaps, or George Lucas, or James Cameron. To that list you could also add Paul Verhoeven, Andrei Tarkovsky or the mischievously creative Terry Gilliam.

One name that doesn't necessarily get brought up all that much in sci-fi conversations is Robert Wise. An American filmmaker who began as an editor of music and film at RKO (he won an Oscar for his editing work on Citizen Kane), Wise's varied career took in hit musicals (West Side Story, The Sound Of Music), horror (The Body Snatcher, The Haunting), comedies, thrillers and war films.

That Wise turned his hand to so many genres, and tended to win awards for his musicals (he won Best Director and Best Picture for both West Side Story and The Sound Of Music) meant that his sci-fi films were often eclipsed. But The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951), The Andromeda Strain (1971) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) were among the best movies he ever made. The first two are among the best SF films to emerge from America, while his Star Trek film, although divisive, still looks stunning today.

Here's a look at each of those films in turn, which will hopefully serve as a reminder that Wise should be remembered on the long list of great sci-fi directors.....

LINK
http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/robert-wise/241174/the-sci-fi-films-of-robert-wise

[Bud Brewster]

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Great article, BDT!

I was impressed by the sentence below in it's description of The Day the Earth Stood Still. Few synopses of this movie get this part right.