As a director he made films in virtually all genres -- westerns, musicals, comedies, gangster films, crime dramas, etc .,-- and was one of the directors at Warner Bros. in the ' 30s who helped give that studio its reputation for gritty, fast-paced " torn from the headlines " action films.

His all-American good looks and easy demeanor were ill-suited to the gritty movies Warner made at the time, and the studio dropped him at the expiration of his six-month contract.

The 1981 film Fort Apache, The Bronx is another film that used the Bronx's gritty image for its storyline.

With a long history of blue-collar labor politics — from the railroad workers of the 19th century, to the longshoremen of the 20th century, to the Labor Ready workers of today — Tacoma has long been known for its rough, gritty image.

Hammer was later considered a sellout due in part to overexposure as an entertainer ( having live instrumentation / bands, choreographed dance routines and an impact on popular culture being regularly referenced on television and in music ) and as a result of being too " commercial " when rap was " hardcore " at one point, then his image later becoming increasingly " gritty " to once again adapt to the ever-changing landscape of rap.

In books of collected journalism such as Der rasende Reporter ( The Raging Reporter ) ( 1924 ), he cultivated the image of a witty, gritty, daring reporter always on the move, a cigarette clamped doggedly between his lips.

Where he had worked hard to create an idealised image of his subjects, the new style of glamour was more earthy and gritty, and for the first time in his career Hurrell was not seen as an innovator.

He followed up this work with an LP in 1980, Rebetika tis Katochis, which was a more gritty and meaty release, more faithful to the tone of the original rebetika as heard in the 1930s.

Roger Ebert gave the film three-out-of-four stars, praising both the lead and supporting actors and the film's gritty, kinetic energy.

Rubin's production credit on the back cover reads " REDUCED BY RICK RUBIN ", referring to his minimalist production style, which gave the album its stripped-down and gritty sound.

Its 12-bit sampling engine gave a desirable warmth to instruments and a gritty punch to drums.

This newsreel style shooting gave an already gritty reality a sense of present action.

It was the last time Wise shot black-and-white film in the standard aspect ratio, which " gave his films the gritty realism they were known for ".

He took advantage of the clout this album gave him to move to San Francisco, where, instead of being one of many competing blues acts, he held court as the king of the blues in the exploding countercultural music scene, an exotic and gritty figure to the flower children.

The Bronx's gritty urban life had worked its way into the movies even earlier, with depictions of the " Bronx cheer ", a loud flatulent-like sound of disapproval, allegedly first made by New York Yankees fans.

In this way Hopper's art takes the gritty American landscape and lonely gas stations and creates within them a sense of beautiful anticipation.

This new format brought an end to the usually gritty and, at times, racy material and instead made way for more representation of the love stories and lost loves that characterized the show in its infancy ( This was also partially due to being aired in a more family-oriented timeslot ).

Created for light relief, Bolland notes that " he great thing about the Judge Dredd strip was it's ability to slide seamlessly between gritty sci fi adventure, nasty gothic horror, spoofery, all the way to daft comedy.

His intense awareness of the gritty and burgeoning art scene of Cleveland, which included drugs and sex, and his need to express this scene which he felt a way of attaining enlightenment, meant that he was not welcome in the political environment.

During the 1990s, Goodfellas ( 1990 ) took a gritty, hard-edged look at mob crime.

The 1990s brought more new Coleman musicals to Broadway: The Will Rogers Follies ( 1991 ), again with Comden and Green, The Life ( 1997 ), a gritty look at pimps, prostitutes, and assorted other lowlife in the big city, with Ira Gasman, and a revised production of Little Me.

Photographers from Steven Meisel Studio shot many of the sessions with regular photography, while fashion photographer Fabian Baron, Stephen Callaghan and Darren Lew shot a number of the sessions on video as well as Super 8-mm film to recreate the gritty look of a vintage stag movie.

Its look would be " mature, detailed, gritty and very stylish, similar to that of a western graphic novel ".

Euston Films had pioneered the technique of shooting action and adventure series entirely on location using 16mm film, for a more gritty and realistic look.

Bancroft's first starring role was in The Pony Express ( 1925 ), and the next year he played an important supporting role in a cast including Wallace Beery and Charles Farrell in the period naval widescreen epic Old Ironsides ( 1926 ), then went from historical pictures to the gritty world of the underground in Paramount Pictures productions such as von Sternberg's Underworld ( 1927 ) and The Docks of New York ( 1928 ).

It was followed by Act of Violence ( 1948 ), a gritty film noir starring Van Heflin as a haunted POW, Robert Ryan as his hot-tempered former friend, Janet Leigh as Heflin's wife, and Mary Astor as a sympathetic prostitute.

The series, starring Max Beesley, Keith Allen and Patrick Baladi has developed a cult following with its gritty storylines and gruesome theatre scenes.

Having illustrated both gritty street-level stories of characters such as Spider-Man and Daredevil and cosmic stories such as those starring Thor, Romita says he prefers the former, because " that is where I grew up.

In this role she commissioned and oversaw a range of dramas made or co-produced by the BBC's own drama department, from playwright Arthur Smith's football-based comedy-drama My Summer With Des ( 1998 ) to gritty contemporary dramas such as Warriors ( 1999, starring Matthew Macfadyen ) and traditional BBC literary adaptations in the vein of David Copperfield ( also 1999 ).

City on Fire () is a gritty and stylish 1987 Hong Kong action crime drama film produced and directed by Ringo Lam, and starring Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee and Sun Yueh.

He made another foray into spy culture with his feature-length reprise of the gritty Cold War TV drama, Callan ( 1974 ) starring Edward Woodward.

* Sigmartyr – A dark science fiction action comic created by Nick Davis, that is set in a gritty world devastated by a constant conflict between the League Alliance and the Omega Coalition.

The change of personnel did not influence the success of the band, because the sudden predilection of the American audience for the gritty and aggressive sound of grunge and alternative rock bands at the beginning of the 90s, had already de facto put an end to the American adventure of Loudness, as well as to the careers of many other bands from the glam and heavy metal scene.

Below in the open bay facing Manhattan was Staten Island, gritty with clam shells and mud flats behind which nested farms, cattle barns, and berry thickets.

He posited the ideal in nature, and was the founder of the competing school to the more gritty view of nature as expressed by Caravaggio.

Properly cooked couscous is light and fluffy, not gummy or gritty.

Like Brookside, Eastenders had a more gritty premise than Coronation Street, although unlike Brookside it tended to steer clear of blue language and politicised stories.

Gonzo journalism disregards the strictly edited product favored by newspaper media and strives for a more gritty, personable approach — the personality of a piece is just as important as the event the piece is on.

In 1911, the city helped Hellas replace the early, gritty football fields with a proper venue.

The gekiga style of drawing — emotionally dark, often starkly realistic, sometimes very violent — focuses on the day-in, day-out grim realities of life, often drawn in gritty and unpretty fashions.

In the 1970s, film culture and the changing demographics of filmgoers placed greater emphasis on gritty realism, while the pure entertainment and theatricality of classical era Hollywood musicals was seen as old-fashioned.

Films about performers which incorporated gritty drama and musical numbers interwoven as a diegetic part of the storyline were produced, such as All That Jazz, Saturday Night Fever, and New York, New York.

These crystals are not toxic, but create a " gritty " texture in the syrup if not filtered out.

Imitation pearls are completely smooth, but natural and cultured pearls are composed of nacre platelets, making both feel slightly gritty.

She collaborated with producers Max Martin and Denniz Pop, who provided the singer with a gritty yet popular sound.

Based on the Jim Thompson novel, the gritty crime thriller detailed lovers on the run following a dangerous robbery.

Barnett also observes that the opposing noises in the soundtrack — gritty little harp figures — are as hard as shards of steel as well as a jazz drum-kit placing the drama in the city – indicative of loneliness while surrounded by people.

Robbins wanted a gritty realism from his sneaker-and jeans-clad cast.

This blood-ground-smear gives battles in Myth a gritty, gory, unsanitized feel.

In the 1970s, Bond saw competition as gritty detective stories and urban crime dramas began to fuse themselves with the new " action " style, leading to a string of maverick police officer films, such as those defined by Bullitt ( 1968 ), The French Connection ( 1971 ) and Dirty Harry ( 1971 ); all of which featured an intense car chase inspired by the popular stuntwork of the Bond films.

Now recognized as a major talent, Altman had critical breakthroughs with McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ), known for its gritty portrayal of the American frontier ; The Long Goodbye ( 1973 ), a remake of a Raymond Chandler novel ; Thieves Like Us ( 1974 ), and Nashville ( 1975 ).

The gritty and / or scratchy feeling is sometimes localized enough for patients to insist they must have a foreign body in the eye.

In 1961, she starred in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women, a stark, gritty story of a mother who is raped while trying to protect her daughter in war-torn Italy.

With the composition of Adiós Nonino in 1959, Piazzolla established a standard structural pattern for his compositions, involving a formal pattern of fast-slow-fast-slow-coda, with the fast sections emphasizing gritty tango rhythms and harsh, angular melodic figures, and the slower sections usually making use of the string instrument in the group and / or Piazzolla's own bandoneón as lyrical soloists.