Sam Fuller has always been Hollywood's bad boy. A director with a wide streak of independence, strangely contradictory politics and a pugnacious visual style, he has often been described as a cinematic primitive. Fuller worked as a newspaperman and a crime reporter for many years before turning in the late 1930s to screenwriting. (Even after he began directing, Fuller continued to write most of his own scripts.) During WWII he enlisted in the army, serving with the First Infantry Division throughout the European theater, earning numerous decorations. Fuller's experiences in the newsroom and on
