Adventures in American Filmmaking #136

Today's Adventure: On the set of The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah contemplates a transcendent moment in the history of his chosen profession (1968)

Adventures in American Filmmaking #135

Today's Adventure: With cast gathered 'round him wearily, Howard Hawks gets to the bottom of The Big Sleep (1945)

Adventures in American Filmmaking #134

Today's Adventure: Mike Nichols and Elizabeth Taylor exchange ideas on the set of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1965)

Adventures in American Filmmaking #133

Today's Adventure: Michael Curtiz (he's in there somewhere) directs, well, everybody in This is the Army, 1943.

Adventures in American Filmmaking #132

Today's Adventure: Sam Wood, James Wong Howe and George Brent wait with bated breath to hear what words will emerge from the lovely Myrna Loy's lips, on the set of Stamboul Quest, 1934.

Adventures in American Filmmaking #131

Today's Adventure: John Ford, while lounging in saddle shoes with pipe, directs Victor McLaglen from the curb for The Informer.

Adventures in American Filmmaking #130

Today's Adventure: On the set of Action in the North Atlantic, Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey and director Lloyd Bacon get a visit from the champ himself, Joe Louis.

Adventures in American Filmmaking #129

Unknown actors from a forgotten film joke on the set. Behind them, above center, a kindly, non-interfering producer looks over the camera.

Adventures in American Filmmaking #128

Today's Adventure: Billy Wilder fiddles with a prop on the set of One, Two, Three.

Adventures in American Filmmaking #127

Today's Adventure: Director King Vidor looks down on his stars Renée Adorée and John Gilbert, not because he feels superior to them, although he may, but because they're rolling in the dirt.

Adventures in American Filmmaking #126

Today's Adventure: Susan Hayward turns off the waterworks for another day while shooting a scene for I'll Cry Tomorrow.

Adventures in American Filmmaking #125

Today's Adventure: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack relax with the natives during a break in filming Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life.

Adventures in American Filmmaking #124

Today's Adventure: Walter Abel kneels on the set of Mr. Skeffington while Bette Davis looks for loopholes (1944)

Adventures in American Filmmaking #123

Today's Adventure: On the set of Love & Money director James Toback consults with his star (1982).

Adventures in American Filmmaking #122

hundreds of extras wonder if the Craft Service will have enough food when the scene is finally done.

Adventures in American Filmmaking #121

Today's adventure: On the set of Suspicion, Harry Stradling focuses the camera while Cary Grant pretends to read a letter and Alfred Hitchcock pretends to care (1940)

Adventures in American Filmmaking #120

Today's Adventure: On the set of The Great Race, Blake Edwards and Natalie Wood exchange uncomprehending looks (1965)

Adventures in American Filmmaking #119

Today's Adventure: On the set of Ocean's Eleven, Lewis Milestone stays in the background as the zeitgeist takes shape before his camera (1960)

Adventures in American Filmmaking #118

Today's Adventure: At an MGM rehearsal facility during the production of Elvis: That's the Way It Is, Denis Sanders explains the finer points of documentary filmmaking technique to an out-to-lunch Elvis Presley, while TCB stalwarts James Burton and John Wilkinson wait patiently (1969)

Adventures in American Filmmaking #117

Today's Adventure: On the set of Rosemary's Baby, Mia Farrow and Roman Polanski
change places (1968)