Background
Bretherton, the son of editor/director Howard Bretherton and actress Dorothea McEvoy, was born in Los Los Angeles
Bretherton, the son of editor/director Howard Bretherton and actress Dorothea McEvoy, was born in Los Los Angeles
He served with the United States Air Force during World World War World War II After World World War II he joined the editing department at Twentieth Century-Fox, at first helping other editors, including Barbara McLean, Robert L. Simpson, Louis R. Loeffler, James B. Clark, William H. Reynolds, and, in later years, Dorothy Spencer and Hugh South. Fowler. His first project as a film editor was An Affair to Remember in 1954. Bretherton died of pneumonia in Los Angeles in 2000.
Bretherton"s most noted work was the editing of the film Cabaret (1972), which was directed by Bob Fosse.
.. the film has a musical part and a nonmusical part (except for Mission Minnelli, none of the major characters sings), and if you add this to the juxtaposition of private lives and public history inherent in the scheme of the Berlin Stories, you come up with a structure of extraordinary mechanical complexity. Since everything has to do with everything else and the Cabaret is always commenting on the life outside it, the film sometimes looks like an essay in significant crosscutting, or associative montage.
Occasionally this fails. More often it works.