Carl Lerner

Editing

American film editor and film director. Mr. Lerner's editor credits included Klute, The Swimmer, with Burt Lancaster, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Middle of the Night The Fugitive Kind, The Goddess, and 12 Angry Men. He had directed commercial 1 and industrial films and was director and editor of Black Like Me. Mr. Lerner had taught film technique at City College, New York University, the School of Visual Arts, and other institutions, and had written many articles on the subject.

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Filmography

Editing

4 titles

Klute

Movie1971

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

The Swimmer

Movie1968

Well-off ad man Ned Merrill is visiting a friend when he notices the abundance of backyard pools that populate their upscale suburb. Ned suddenly decides that he'd like to travel the eight miles back to his own home by simply swimming across every pool in town. Soon, Ned's journey becomes harrowing; at each house, he is somehow confronted with a reminder of his romantic, domestic and economic failures.

The Fugitive Kind

Movie1960

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.

12 Angry Men

Movie1957

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.