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Andrew Sarris's "Far Side of Paradise" Directors

From his 1968 work The American Cinema: Directors and Direction 1929-1968, these are "the directors who fall short of the Pantheon either because of a fragmentation of their personal vision or because of disruptive career problems."

1. Robert Aldrich  
2. Frank Borzage  
3. Frank Capra  
4. George Cukor  
5. Cecil B. De Mille  
6. Blake Edwards  
7. Sam Fuller  
8. Gregory La Cava  
9. Joseph Losey  
10. Anthony Mann  
11. Leo McCarey  
12. Vincente Minnelli  
13. Otto Preminger  
14. Nicholas Ray  
15. Douglas Sirk  
16. George Stevens  
17. Erich Von Stroheim  
18. Preston Sturges  
19. King Vidor  
20. Raoul Walsh  
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Created by TGTE on Apr 26, 2007.