DISC 1

It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
It Happened in Hollywood was one of Fuller’s first screenwriting credits, a credit he shared with Ethel Hill (The Little Princess) and Harvey Fergusson (Hot Saturday). Fay Wray (King Kong) stars alongside Academy Award nominee Richard Dix (1930, Best Actor, Cimarron), who plays a famous Hollywood western star at a time when audiences’ changing preferences for Gangster films might imperil the Cowboy’s career. One of the most notable features of Director Harry Lachman’s comedy is a lavish party scene, featuring look-a-like doubles of top stars James Cagney, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Mae West, and Ginger Rogers.

NO BONUS FEATURES

DISC 2

Adventure in Sahara (1938)
Fuller provided the original story for Adventure in Sahara , with Maxwell Shane stepping in to write the screenplay. C. Henry Gordon (Conquest) commands a detachment of Foreign Legionnaires with such brutality that he is sent at gunpoint by his men into the desert with a few loyal soldiers and scant supplies, to fend for himself or perish. He vows to reach civilization and return for vengeance.

NO BONUS FEATURES

DISC 3

Power of the Press (1943)
Based on an original story by Fuller, with Robert Hardy Andrews contributing the screenplay for this tale of a villainous big city publisher whose quest for power leads him to pay off gangsters to act as his henchmen and kill anyone who gets in his path. Academy Award nominee Lee Tracy (1964, Best Supporting Actor, The Best Man), Guy Kibbee (Gold Diggers of 1933), Otto Kruger (Cover Girl), Victor Jory (Gone with the Wind), and Gloria Dickson (Lady of Burlesque) star in this intense, hard-hitting drama for Director Lew Landers.

BONUS FEATURE:

• Featurette: Sam Fuller's Search for Truth

DISC 4

Shockproof (1949)
Fuller shared the screenplay credit on Shockproof with Helen Deutsch (The Loves of Carmen) for legendary director Douglas Sirk (Magnificent Obsession). Academy Award nominee Cornel Wilde (A Song to Remember) and Patricia Knight (The Magic Face), who were married at the time in real life, star in the story of a woman (Knight), who, after serving only five years of her life sentence for murder, is released from prison on parole. Her tough but tender parole officer (Wilde) tries to keep her from associating with criminal types, including her former lover Harry, played by John Baragrey, and ends up bending the rules he’s pledged to uphold. Howard St. John (Born Yesterday), and Russell Collins (Raintree County) also star.

NO BONUS FEATURES

DISC 5

Scandal Sheet (1952)
Fuller wrote the novel which formed the basis of Scandal Sheet, with Ted Sherdeman (Them!), and Academy Award winners Eugene Ling (Lost Boundaries) and James Poe (Around the World in Eighty Days) contributing the screenplay for Director Phil Karlson (Tight Spot).

The cast features Academy Award winners Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men) and Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity) with John Derek (Knock on Any Door). Crawford is the unscrupulous new editor who boosts the circulation of a respected New York newspaper with tabloid-style reporting. Reed and Derek play the junior reporters on the paper who clash over the new editorial policy, but finally work together to solve a murder.

BONUS FEATURE:

• Featurette: Sam Fuller Storyteller with Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Tim Robbins, Curtis Hanson, Christa and Samantha Fuller discussing the life and work of Sam Fuller.

DISC 6

The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Samuel Fuller sat in the director’s chair for the first time at Columbia Pictures for The Crimson Kimono, for which he also wrote the screenplay and produced. This taut film noir concerns two L.A. detectives investigating the murder of a stripper. As their search takes them through skid row, Little Tokyo and other atmospheric neighborhoods, the tension between the two cops rises to a boil as they both fall for the same girl. Fuller’s cast includes two actors making their film debuts: Glenn Corbett (Pirates of Blood River) and James Shigeta (Flower Drum Song), along with Victoria Shaw (The Eddy Duchin Story) and Anna Lee (This Earth is Mine).

BONUS FEATURE:

• Featurette: Curtis Hanson: The Culture of the Crimson Kimono

DISC 7

Underworld U.S.A. (1961)

Fuller wrapped up his association with Columbia Pictures with the release of Underworld U.S.A. Fuller again wrote, produced and directed, with Academy Award winner Cliff Robertson (Charly) starring in this gritty tale of vengeance in which Robertson feigns loyalty to both the government (a federal crime commission) and organized crime in order to kill the men who murdered his father. This is one of Samuel Fuller's most visually striking films, based on a series of Saturday Evening Post articles, by Joseph F. Dineen.

BONUS FEATURE:

• Featurette: Martin Scorsese on Underworld U.S.A.