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Stuart Rosenberg: Amityville Horror
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Culver City, CA — Stuart Rosenberg, a director whose early television success led to a thriving career in feature films, died of a heart attack on March 15 in Beverly Hills. Rosenberg, an Emmy Award winner best known for the movies Cool Hand Luke and The Amityville Horror, was 79.
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Unfortunately, Rosenberg's subsequent efforts, during the early '70s, failed to meet the critical or public kudos of Luke, yet consistently revealed genuine depth and talent. The director teamed up with Newman three more times, first on WUSA (1970), the tale of a drifter who becomes the pawn of an über-right-wing radio station; then on Pocket Money (1972), a loosely-knit and genial comedy Western, scripted by Terrence Malick, with Newman and Lee Marvin as a couple of roving cowboys; and finally The Drowning Pool (1975), Newman's sequel to the 1966 detective mystery Harper. Rosenberg ... helmed the 1973 Laughing Policeman -- a gruesome, nocturnal mystery thriller starring Walter Matthau and Bruce Dern. The latter three were impressive, enjoyable, and finely wrought efforts and drew loyal cult followings, but all of these pictures disappointed in terms of box-office draw, and by the late '70s, Rosenberg was considered by some to be passé and something of a one-hit wonder -- until he signed on to direct The Amityville Horror. Though deservedly trashed by critics, this paper-thin, effects-laden tale of the Lutzes, who move into a haunted house on Long Island, became one of the most lucrative grossers of its year.
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Otro cineasta, Stuart Rosenberg, murió a los 79 años de un ataque al corazón. Fue conocido por varias series de televisión y filmes en los que se encuentran “La leyenda del indomable”, Terror en Amityville, y teleseries como “Los intocables”. Rosenberg, cuya muerte ocurrió en su casa de Beverly Hills, había nacido en Brooklyn en 1927 y comenzó a dirigir series televisivas en la década de los años 50. Sus teleseries más conocidas fueron “Alfred Hitchcock” presenta y “Dimensión desconocida”. En 1963 obtuvo un premio Emmy de televisión por un episodio de “The Defenders”. Su debut en la gran pantalla llegó en 1967 con "La leyenda del indomable", en la que Paul Newman y George Kennedy protagonizaban una historia sobre un preso que intenta escapar a toda costa de la cárcel.
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Rosenberg ... directed Robert Redford in the 1980 prison film "Brubaker" and Mickey Rourke in 1984's "The Pope of Greenwich Village." "Amityville Horror" in 1979 was probably his most financially successful film; it has inspired seven sequels to date.
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