Ask film fans about the great directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age and the names come spilling forth… Frank Capra, John Ford, Cecil B. DeMille, Alfred Hitchcock… Yet the man who directed two of cinema’s unquestioned masterpieces, Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, remains largely unknown.
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman illuminates the life and career of the director who made Gary Cooper a star, brought Spencer Tracy his first Academy Award, and sent Judy Garland down that yellow brick road. A man’s man with a lust for adventure, Fleming virtually defined Hollywood’s Golden Age, entering movies during the silent era and rising to the top as one of MGM’s finest filmmakers, setting the gold standard for generations of filmakers to come. Through film clips and interviews with current filmmakers such as William Friedkin and film historians such as Leonard Maltin, Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman reveals the lasting legacy of this remarkable director.
