Director Richard Fletcher Dies!

[davids]

He is the son of max fletcher of popeye, betty boop, superman animation fame. His son directed Mandingo, but he also dirested twenty thousand leauges under the sea, Doctor doolittle, Compulsion with Orson wells as Darrow conserning the Lepold and Lobe murder case. He has directed many other fine and great movies and a number of stinkers in a number of diffrent film types.

[EZMOHR]

20000 Leagues Under the Sea was one of my favorite movies when I was a little kid. Thanx to the director for making this film. James Mason rocked in that movie.

[davids]

Max Fletcher tried to become Disney's rival in animated shorts and features. Max Fletcher tried his own animated movies in a time when such things were not done. Max did Gulivers travels and Mr hoppy goes to town.

Walt didn't hold a grudge I guess and regonized talent. Fletcher also directed Fantastic Voyage with a tiny raqel Welch.

The vikings, solet green and the Boston strangler were also his! :)

[cactusmaac]

That's Fleischer.

[davids]

Richard Fletcher is Max Fletcher's the dreat animaters son.

[Neil]

He is the son of max fletcher of popeye, betty boop, superman animation fame. His son directed Mandingo, but he also dirested twenty thousand leauges under the sea, Doctor doolittle, Compulsion with Orson wells as Darrow conserning the Lepold and Lobe murder case. He has directed many other fine and great movies and a number of stinkers in a number of diffrent film types.
First of all, Richard Fleischer directed The Jazz Singer, Mandigo, Red Sonja and Doctor Doolittle but also directed The Vikings, Compulsion, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Fantastic Voyage, Soylent Green, His Kind of Woman, Bandido, The Boston Strangler, Mr. Majestyk and co-directed Tora! Tora! Tora!.

The Doolittle movie has no place after the but if you've seen it since you were six years old. Oddly, I'd even say Mandingo is the best of the movies I placed before the but actually. And I only left Conan the Destroyer off the list because I couldn't decide which side to place him on.

Honestly, a man who directed so many movies of genuine import and quality (as well as import and lack thereof and quite a number of little import either way) deserves to be eulogized for his own accomplishments in a one paragraph obituatary. The work his father (and uncle) did in animation is wonderful and deserves a significant place in the annals of history, but Richard Fleischer (it's really not that hard to spell), while not one of the great auteurs, was a stong and capable journeyman director with talent and enthusiasm, a genuine love of the medium who worked for decades in mainstream film in nearly every genre, creating some genuinely wonderful pieces of work and deserves to be recognized and celebrated as his own man.

[davids]

A hammy hollywood actor who plays a sword weilding hero in the movies turns into a hero in real life. He is very very funny in this movie. Robert mitchim was the star.