#OldHollywood

The other day I re-watched "Some Came Running" (1958) with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra for the first time in many years.
If you haven't watched it, I encourage you to watch it soon, especially if you're a filmmaker. If I made a list of my top 100 favorite films it would rank somewhere around 70. Its only real glaring fault is the poor character development and bizarre mannerisms of Dean Martin's character's girlfriend.
If you're a filmmaker even if you don't like the story you might be intrigued by director Vincente Minneli's unusual technique and editing style. There are many very wide, long master shots, only a handful of medium shots, no OTS shots and of course no close-ups (which were invented much later). In fact, it has almost no cuts until its final few minutes-- the cuts are almost entirely reserved for the action-filled climax. You might have seen other very old films that employed the same techniques, but it was still fairly unusual then and extinct now.