Editing

George Amy

Born October 15, 1903 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Died December 18, 1986 · aged 83

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Joseph Amy (October 15, 1903 – December 18, 1986) started his career aged 17 as an American film editor, finding his niche at Warner Brothers in the 1930s. It was Amy's editing that was one of the main reasons Warners' films got their reputation for their fluid style and breakneck pace. He was a favorite of such top Warners directors as Michael Curtiz…

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Captain Blood

Captain Blood · 1935

MovieAdventureHistory

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade · 1933

Footlight Parade

MovieComedyMusic

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

Kid Galahad

Kid Galahad · 1937

MovieCrimeDrama

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

The Letter

The Letter · 1940

MovieCrimeDrama

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk · 1940

MovieAdventureHistory

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy · 1942

Yankee Doodle Dandy

MovieDramaMusic

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

Life with Father

Life with Father · 1947

Life with Father

MovieComedyFamily

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Clash by Night

Clash by Night · 1952

MovieDramaRomance

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

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Captain Blood

Captain Blood · 1935

MovieAdventureHistory

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Editor

Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade · 1933

Footlight Parade

MovieComedyMusic

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

Editor

Kid Galahad

Kid Galahad · 1937

MovieCrimeDrama

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

Editor

The Letter

The Letter · 1940

MovieCrimeDrama

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

Editor

The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk · 1940

MovieAdventureHistory

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

Editor

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy · 1942

Yankee Doodle Dandy

MovieDramaMusic

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

Editor

Life with Father

Life with Father · 1947

Life with Father

MovieComedyFamily

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Editor

Clash by Night

Clash by Night · 1952

MovieDramaRomance

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

Editor

Objective, Burma!

Objective, Burma! · 1945

Objective, Burma!

MovieWarAdventure

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.

Editor

Dodge City

Dodge City · 1939

In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

Editor

Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933 · 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

MovieComedyDrama

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.

Editor

Wonder Bar

Wonder Bar · 1934

MovieCrimeDrama

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.

Editor

Doctor X

Doctor X · 1932

MovieHorrorThriller

A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

Editor

Santa Fe Trail

Santa Fe Trail · 1940

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.

Editor

Air Force

Air Force · 1943

MovieActionDrama

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

Editor

Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas · 1948

Romance on the High Seas

MovieComedyRomance

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

Associate Producer

Action in the North Atlantic

Action in the North Atlantic · 1943

Action in the North Atlantic

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.

Editor

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade · 1936

The Charge of the Light Brigade

MovieDramaAdventure

In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.

Editor

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

20,000 Years in Sing Sing · 1932

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

MovieCrimeDrama

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Editor

The Sea Wolf

The Sea Wolf · 1941

MovieAdventureDrama

Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.

Editor

The Old Maid

The Old Maid · 1939

The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

Editor

Mystery of the Wax Museum

Mystery of the Wax Museum · 1933

Mystery of the Wax Museum

MovieHorrorMystery

A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a reporter to start investigating.

Editor

Three Strangers

Three Strangers · 1946

Three Strangers

MovieCrimeDrama

On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.

Editor

The Unsuspected

The Unsuspected · 1947

The Unsuspected

MovieDramaMystery

The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.

Second Unit Director