Joshua Logan

Directing

Joshua Logan

Born October 5, 1908 · Texarkana, Texas, USA

Died July 12, 1988 · aged 79

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joshua Lockwood Logan III (October 5, 1908 – July 12, 1988) was an American stage and film director and writer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joshua Logan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Paint Your WagonPaint Your Wagon · 1969
Paint Your Wagon
6.31969
MovieComedyWestern
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.
Bus StopBus Stop · 1956
Bus Stop
6.11956
MovieComedyDrama
Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.
PicnicPicnic · 1955
Picnic
6.41955
MovieDramaRomance
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.
Mister RobertsMister Roberts · 1955
Mister Roberts
7.01955
MovieComedyDrama
Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.
CamelotCamelot · 1967
Camelot
6.21967
MovieAdventureMusic
The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threatens to topple King Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights.
SayonaraSayonara · 1957
Sayonara
6.71957
MovieDramaRomance
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.
South PacificSouth Pacific · 1958
South Pacific
6.11958
MovieMusicRomance
Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.
South PacificSouth Pacific · 1952
South Pacific
1952
MovieMusicDrama
The professional recording of the 1952 original London production at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

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