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Tokolosh mentioned several Fuller movies.
This year I got to see the Naked Kiss, Fixed Bayonets, Pickup on South Street and Shock Corridor.
They all pleased me a lot.
He knew how to go fast without leaving the details that count behind.
The Naked Kiss story is really strange.
The use of colour in Shock Corridor is really effecient - colour blurts out two or three times in this black & white film.
Another guy used colour versus black & white without any warning (i.e. in the Wizard of Oz, the colour parts are apart from the black & white ones, they don't mingle) was Albert Lewin for A Picture of Dorian Gray. To show the portrait itself. I liked that movie quite a lot, even though Angela Lansbury ain't as young-looking as Wilde's character.
Lewin also shot Pandora, a movie that made me chuckle for two reasons : one, it has Marius Goring (from the Red Shoes) belching, two James Mason kissing Ava Gardner is irresistible. She was taller than him, but someone didn't want the audience to notice it. But it shows that he's standing on something.
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