Producer Sam Spiegel was once known as "S.P. Eagle." He had an amazing talent for finding unusual material and hiring the perfect director to execute it. He produced one of Orson Welles's few commercial successes, The Stranger (1946). Sir David Lean, the director of this masterpiece, had been a well-respected director of moderate-budgeted English movies. Spiegel brought Lean to international prominence with Lean's direction of The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). Spiegel also worked with John Huston: first on We Were Strangers (1949) and then most notably on The African Queen (1951). Finally, Spiegel found the funding from Harry Cohn at Columbia Pictures for Elia Kazan's controversial On the Waterfront (1954). Perhaps no other independent producer has been associated with so many brilliant movie directors on so many diverse and original stories.
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