Reliable Hollywood craftsman who established his reputation in the mid-1950s with a series of intense, morally charged features such as "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1954) and "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957), before moving on to bigger--though not especially better--productions.
Sturges began his career as an editor, co-directed the war documentary, "Thunderbolt" (1945), with William Wyler, and… See Full John Sturges Biography