But Post, who broke into directing in 1950, managed to build a résumé that could have belonged to a golden - age Hollywood journeyman like Michael Curtiz, who in 1935 knocked
out a labor drama, a
workplace romance, and an action picture in rapid succession, along with a Perry Mason programmer, a gangster comedy, and part
of an Al Jolson — Ruby Keeler backstage musical that somehow burned through three directors.