His ongoing alliance with George Clooney, moreover, is the most reliable director-star double act since Scorsese found De Niro.
He was the studio's safe pair of hands, the man who a couple of years later was proposed to Life magazine by America's most celebrated film critic, James Agee, as the perfect subject for a feature on "the reliable journeyman director".
By the 1950s Wise was well established as a reliable, competent director who finished films on schedule, including Two Flags West (1950), a formulaic American Civil War story; Three Secrets (1950), a suspenseful soap opera; and The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), a noirish espionage tale.
That, in the realm of filmmaking (and in the absence of reliable eyewitnesses), directors may depict heaven, hell and limbo any way they please based on their religion, political leanings, aesthetic temperament, self-image and, not incidentally, budget.
This promises to make prediction more reliable, says Daniel Chan, director of the Centre for Biomarker Discovery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
"The claims on labels that consumers see will no longer be as reliable," said Bruce Silverglade, director of legal affairs at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit consumer group in Washington.
July 17 , 1887Graceville, Minnesota October 11, 1952 Pacific Palisades, California Jack Conway, original name Hugh Ryan Conway (born July 17 , 1887 Graceville, Minnesota, U.S. died October 11, 1952, Pacific Palisades, California) American filmmaker who worked primarily for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), where he became known as a reliable and efficient director.
This game doesn't help in judging a film's content, but it's a fairly reliable test of a director's film technique; one could call it a test of movie believability.
Despite solid conducting by Lawrence Foster and Ian Robertson's reliable work as chorus director, something was decidedly missing from this otherwise highly efficient performance.
"We're trying to achieve a set of operating practices that generates a safe, reliable crude oil," Lynn Helms, director of the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources, has said.
