Richard Fleischer, 1916 - 2006.

Richard Fleischer, veteran director of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Fantastic Voyage and Tora! Tora! Tora!, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 89.

The BBC.

Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who starred in Conan the Destroyer, praised Fleischer as "a true Hollywood legend."

The AP.

Richard Fleischer is a director every cinephile knows and very few write about... Upon first glance, Fleischer fits the bill as a studio craftsman... But we do an injustice to Fleischer if we say that Follow Me Quietly is purely the product of a system, or that Mandingo's (1975) perverse merits are wholly unintentional consequences.

Zach Campbell in an entry in the "Director Retrospective" in the most recent issue of the Film Journal.

Posted by dwhudson at March 26, 2006 4:18 AM