Elmo Williams

Elmo Williams

Elmo Williams was an esteemed American film editor, producer, director, and executive, celebrated for his meticulous editing and significant contributions to the film industry. Born in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, Williams began his career in the 1930s, learning the craft of film editing under the mentorship of Merrill G. White. He gained prominence with his work on High Noon (1952), for which he received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Williams's editing was instrumental in building the film's tension, particularly through the iconic montage leading up to the climactic showdown. His other notable editing credits include 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and The Vikings (1958). Transitioning into production, Williams was involved in films such as The Longest Day (1962) and Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). He served as the Head of Production for 20th Century Fox between 1971 and 1974. In 2006, he published his memoir, Elmo Williams: A Hollywood Memoir, detailing his extensive career. Williams passed away at the age of 102 in Brookings, Oregon.

  • Title: Elmo Williams
  • Popularity: 0.8681
  • Known For: Editing
  • Birthday: 1913-04-30
  • Place of Birth: Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, United States
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Elmo Williams Movies

  • 1954
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    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

    7.1 1954 HD

    A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

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  • 1952
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    High Noon

    High Noon

    7.7 1952 HD

    Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

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  • 1970
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    Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Tora! Tora! Tora!

    7.1 1970 HD

    In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

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  • 1947
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    They Won't Believe Me

    They Won't Believe Me

    6.52 1947 HD

    On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

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  • 1948
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    Design for Death

    Design for Death

    6 1948 HD

    Documentary Feature winner "Design for Death" (1947) examines Japanese culture and how it led to Japan's role in WWII.

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  • 1946
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    Nocturne

    Nocturne

    5.862 1946 HD

    In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.

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  • 1948
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    Bodyguard

    Bodyguard

    6 1948 HD

    A cop on suspension is framed for murder when he noses in on a murder investigation.

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  • 1947
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    Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

    Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

    5.3 1947 HD

    A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.

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  • 1956
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    Blonde Bait

    Blonde Bait

    4.8 1956 HD

    Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is currently in a British prison. Angela has refused to give Nick up to the law, so the combined authorities arrange for Angela to escape, aided by stoolie Gran' Ramsey who is at the same prison. The police will then follow Angela to Nick. Gran' stages the getaway, and the two women, accompanied by a third convict, Marguerite, whose prison-born baby is about to be turned over to welfare authorities. It is up to Gran' to keep the police informed of Angela's movements without being detected by the escapees, until Angela contacts Nick. This film is a reworking of principal footage from the UK film WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (1955), q.v., which, with added new footage (including scenes with original star Beverly Michaels), significantly revises the plot and central characters from a story about a wrongly imprisoned waif to one about a gangster's moll.

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  • 1957
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    Hell Ship Mutiny

    Hell Ship Mutiny

    4 1957 HD

    A ship's captain in the South Seas battles a villainous pearl trader who uses island natives as slaves for his business.

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  • 1956
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    Women Without Men

    Women Without Men

    6 1956 HD

    In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...

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  • 1981
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    Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.

    Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.

    4.5 1981 HD

    In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control.

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  • 1961
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    The Big Gamble

    The Big Gamble

    5.7 1961 HD

    Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation is that his cousin Samuel, a timid bank clerk, accompany Vic and his Corsican bride, Marie, to Africa and protect the family fortune.

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  • 1978
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    Caravans

    Caravans

    5.3 1978 HD

    This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a US Senator. The young woman has left her husband, a Colonel in the Shadom - she was his number two wife - and has opted for the lifestyle of a nomadic tribe. When the diplomat locates the girl he joins the caravan and attempts to persuade the girl to return.

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  • 1953
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    The Tall Texan

    The Tall Texan

    4.5 1953 HD

    Groups of desperate travelers journey together throughout the Southwest and soon find trouble when they all get gold fever. The action and drama are heightened when they discover gold…on an Indian burial ground!

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  • 1962
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    The Longest Day

    The Longest Day

    7.6 1962 HD

    The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

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  • 1949
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    Follow Me Quietly

    Follow Me Quietly

    6.203 1949 HD

    When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at night, leaving behind clues, but police efforts have been fruitless. Constructing a life-size dummy of the murderer, police Lt. Harry Grant is growing obsessed with capturing him, and always following Grant is the relentless reporter Ann Gorman looking to break the story, but the hunt continues.

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  • 1945
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    Know Your Enemy: Japan

    Know Your Enemy: Japan

    5.853 1945 HD

    Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States' new enemy: Japan.

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  • 1957
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    Apache Warrior

    Apache Warrior

    4.6 1957 HD

    An Apache brave vows revenge when he feels betrayed by the U.S. Army.

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  • 1965
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    The Agony and the Ecstasy

    The Agony and the Ecstasy

    7.074 1965 HD

    During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

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  • 1957
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    Hell Canyon Outlaws

    Hell Canyon Outlaws

    1 1957 HD

    In this western, a sheriff attempts to exact his revenge against the desperadoes who cost him his job. The former lawman successfully gets rid of the bad hombres and clears his name.

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  • 1953
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    College Capers

    College Capers

    1 1953 HD

    A slapstick comedy about the antics of a fraternity pledge who is forced by upper-classmen to stage a panty-raid in a sorority house.

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  • 1937
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    Victoria the Great

    Victoria the Great

    5.4 1937 HD

    The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.

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  • 1962
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    The Longest Day

    The Longest Day

    7.6 1962 HD

    The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

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  • 1941
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    Sunny

    Sunny

    5.5 1941 HD

    A circus performer who falls in love with a rich car dealer's son, against her family's wishes. Features some spirited dance numbers with Ray Bolger.

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  • 1943
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    Forever and a Day

    Forever and a Day

    7.4 1943 HD

    In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

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  • 1945
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    Our Job in Japan

    Our Job in Japan

    1 1945 HD

    Our Job in Japan was a United States military training film made in 1945, shortly after World War II. It is the companion to the more famous Your Job In Germany. The film was aimed at American troops about to go to Japan to participate in the 1945–1952 Allied occupation, and presents the problem of turning the militarist state into a peaceful democracy. The film focused on the Japanese military officials who had used the traditional religion of Shinto, as well as the educational system, to take over power, control the populace, and wage aggressive war.

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  • 1987
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    Ernest Goes to Camp

    Ernest Goes to Camp

    5.246 1987 HD

    Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance counselor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents while stopping a shady strip mining company from closing the camp as well.

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  • 1935
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    To Be a Lady

    To Be a Lady

    1 1935 HD

    Misadventures of a country girl who comes to the city, and falls in love with a musician.

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  • 1948
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    The Miracle of the Bells

    The Miracle of the Bells

    5.9 1948 HD

    The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.

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  • 1940
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    Irene

    Irene

    6 1940 HD

    Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's, an exclusive Manhattan boutique, and instructs newly hired manager Mr. Smith to offer Irene a job as a model. She soon catches the eye of socialite Bob Vincent, whose mother is hosting a ball at the family mansion. To promote Madame Lucy's dress line, Mr. Smith arranges for his models to be invited to the ball.

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  • 1952
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    Hellgate

    Hellgate

    6.7 1952 HD

    A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.

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  • 1958
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    The Vikings

    The Vikings

    7.03 1958 HD

    Einar, brutal son of the viking Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with clever slave Eric, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.

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  • 1958
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    The Vikings

    The Vikings

    7.03 1958 HD

    Einar, brutal son of the viking Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with clever slave Eric, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.

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  • 1939
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    Nurse Edith Cavell

    Nurse Edith Cavell

    6.4 1939 HD

    British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans

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