Harold F. Kress

Harold F. Kress

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harold F. Kress (June 26, 1913 – September 18, 1999) was an American film editor with more than fifty feature film credits; he also directed several feature films in the early 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for How the West Was Won (1962) and again for The Towering Inferno (1974), and was nominated for four additional films; he is among the film editors most recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He also worked publicly to increase the recognition of editing as a component of Hollywood filmmaking.

  • Title: Harold F. Kress
  • Popularity: 0.809
  • Known For: Editing
  • Birthday: 1913-06-26
  • Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Harold F. Kress Movies

  • 1972
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    The Poseidon Adventure

    The Poseidon Adventure

    7.086 1972 HD

    When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

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  • 1965
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    The Greatest Story Ever Told

    The Greatest Story Ever Told

    6.4 1965 HD

    From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling....

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  • 1941
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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    6.4 1941 HD

    Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible...

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  • 1962
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    How the West Was Won

    How the West Was Won

    7 1962 HD

    The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one...

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  • 1955
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    I'll Cry Tomorrow

    I'll Cry Tomorrow

    6.3 1955 HD

    Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before...

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  • 1951
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    The Painted Hills

    The Painted Hills

    4.1 1951 HD

    After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy...

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  • 1939
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    It's a Wonderful World

    It's a Wonderful World

    6.4 1939 HD

    Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by...

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  • 1951
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    No Questions Asked

    No Questions Asked

    6 1951 HD

    With the help of some seedy gangsters, young attorney Steve Keiver makes some quick cash by bending the law, and in the process, he impresses the...

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  • 1940
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    Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

    Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

    5.1 1940 HD

    Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and...

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  • 1952
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    Apache War Smoke

    Apache War Smoke

    3 1952 HD

    An outlaw murders several Apaches and flees to a stagecoach way station with the tribe in hot pursuit. A stagecoach and its passengers have just...

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  • 1968
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    Star Spangled Salesman

    Star Spangled Salesman

    6 1968 HD

    A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.

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  • 1939
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    These Glamour Girls

    These Glamour Girls

    5.5 1939 HD

    A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to...

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  • 1950
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    The Miniver Story

    The Miniver Story

    6 1950 HD

    The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and...

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  • 1941
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    Rage in Heaven

    Rage in Heaven

    6.2 1941 HD

    A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.

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  • 1958
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    Merry Andrew

    Merry Andrew

    6 1958 HD

    When eccentric English teacher Andrew Larabee needs a raise in order for his fiancée to marry him, his interest in archaeology leads him to...

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  • 1976
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    Gator

    Gator

    5.2 1976 HD

    After his release from prison, notorious ex-con and moonshine distiller Gator McKlusky moves in with his father in a cabin in the Okefenokee Swamp....

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  • 1955
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    The Prodigal

    The Prodigal

    4 1955 HD

    A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the...

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  • 1940
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    Comrade X

    Comrade X

    5.8 1940 HD

    An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.

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  • 1940
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    New Moon

    New Moon

    6.8 1940 HD

    A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.

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  • 1978
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    The Swarm

    The Swarm

    4.9 1978 HD

    Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that...

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  • 1974
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    99 and 44/100% Dead

    99 and 44/100% Dead

    4.6 1974 HD

    Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's...

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  • 1945
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    Purity Squad

    Purity Squad

    1 1945 HD

    This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before...

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  • 1955
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    The Cobweb

    The Cobweb

    5.8 1955 HD

    Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.

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  • 1944
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    Dragon Seed

    Dragon Seed

    6.4 1944 HD

    The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in...

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  • 1974
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    The Towering Inferno

    The Towering Inferno

    7 1974 HD

    At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and...

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  • 1939
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    Broadway Serenade

    Broadway Serenade

    6.2 1939 HD

    A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...

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  • 1970
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    I Walk the Line

    I Walk the Line

    5.7 1970 HD

    Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his...

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  • 1954
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    Rose Marie

    Rose Marie

    4 1954 HD

    Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian...

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  • 1972
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    Stand Up and Be Counted

    Stand Up and Be Counted

    1 1972 HD

    Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving...

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  • 1959
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    Count Your Blessings

    Count Your Blessings

    4.2 1959 HD

    Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on...

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  • 1949
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    The Great Sinner

    The Great Sinner

    6.7 1949 HD

    A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

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  • 1967
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    Luv

    Luv

    4.2 1967 HD

    Depressed by the direction his life is taking, Harry decides to take his own life by jumping off the Manhattan Bridge. At the last minute he's...

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  • 1957
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    Until They Sail

    Until They Sail

    6.5 1957 HD

    Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.

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  • 1961
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    King of Kings

    King of Kings

    7.1 1961 HD

    Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet...

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  • 1967
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    The Ambushers

    The Ambushers

    5 1967 HD

    When an experimental flying saucer crashes, secret agent Matt Helm has to bring back the secret weapons hidden on board.

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  • 1942
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    Mrs. Miniver

    Mrs. Miniver

    7 1942 HD

    Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the...

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  • 1966
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    Alvarez Kelly

    Alvarez Kelly

    6.2 1966 HD

    In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until unexpected circumstances force him to...

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  • 1956
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    The Rack

    The Rack

    6.6 1956 HD

    Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the...

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  • 1957
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    The Teahouse of the August Moon

    The Teahouse of the August Moon

    6 1957 HD

    In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.

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  • 1946
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    The Yearling

    The Yearling

    6.5 1946 HD

    Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?

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  • 1949
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    East Side, West Side

    East Side, West Side

    7 1949 HD

    A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.

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  • 1945
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    Watchtower Over Tomorrow

    Watchtower Over Tomorrow

    5 1945 HD

    Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.

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  • 1957
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    Silk Stockings

    Silk Stockings

    6.7 1957 HD

    After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is...

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  • 1940
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    Bitter Sweet

    Bitter Sweet

    5.8 1940 HD

    A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.

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  • 1960
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    Home from the Hill

    Home from the Hill

    6.8 1960 HD

    The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of him.

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  • 1943
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    Cabin in the Sky

    Cabin in the Sky

    6.3 1943 HD

    When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for...

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  • 1959
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    The World, the Flesh and the Devil

    The World, the Flesh and the Devil

    6.3 1959 HD

    Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of...

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  • 1971
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    The Horsemen

    The Horsemen

    6.5 1971 HD

    In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his leg and loses a spirited match, he brings shame to his...

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  • 1977
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    Viva Knievel!

    Viva Knievel!

    3.6 1977 HD

    The legendary stuntman plans his most incredible stunt yet while battling the mob in this action-adventure.

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  • 1943
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    Madame Curie

    Madame Curie

    7.2 1943 HD

    Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism...

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  • 1948
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    A Date with Judy

    A Date with Judy

    6 1948 HD

    Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship...

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  • 1941
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    Unholy Partners

    Unholy Partners

    7 1941 HD

    A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.

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  • 1954
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    Valley of the Kings

    Valley of the Kings

    4.8 1954 HD

    Hard-boiled archeologist Mark Brandon is searching for ancient tombs in Egypt when he is approached by beautiful Ann Mercedes, who convinces him to...

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  • 1948
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    Command Decision

    Command Decision

    6.6 1948 HD

    High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties...

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  • 1968
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    The Wrecking Crew

    The Wrecking Crew

    5.6 1968 HD

    When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.S. gold, ICE chief MacDonald summons secret...

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  • 1942
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    Random Harvest

    Random Harvest

    7.2 1942 HD

    Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.

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  • 1939
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    Remember?

    Remember?

    5.8 1939 HD

    Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But...

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  • 1954
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    Green Fire

    Green Fire

    6.2 1954 HD

    In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local...

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  • 1973
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    The Iceman Cometh

    The Iceman Cometh

    6 1973 HD

    Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and...

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