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Sturges

American  
[stur-jis] / ˈstɜr dʒɪs /

noun

  1. Preston, 1898–1959, U.S. playwright and screenwriter.


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Circling back to the 1960 Sturges movie, near the end of the flick a character remarks that the Magnificent Seven gunslingers were “like the wind, blowing over the land and passing on.”

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Sturges adds that it allowed audiences to "really dwell on what that would be like and to create a space where statistics become people with complex characters and stories".

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2024

John Sturges directed this overlong but intermittently entertaining action-thriller.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2023

Karen Sturges was knitting five baby sweaters, one for each grandchild’s future baby, when she was suddenly diagnosed with lymphoma.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

Sturges came down to spend some days near me, and, lately from Paris, repeated to me five words you had said to him one day on his meeting you during a call at Whistler's.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry