Biography: Edward Dmytryk |
A messenger boy at Paramount in the mid 1920s, Edward Dmytryk became an editor in the 1930s and began directing in 1935. By the mid '40s he had such impressive credits as The Devil Commands (1941) with Boris Karloff; the anti-fascist Hitler's... more
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Cast: John Huston Louis B. Mayer
Tags: Biography History Film, TV & Radio Politics & Government
Length: 105min
Combining familiar newsreel footage with freshly shot material, David Helpern's Hollywood on Trial is a documentary concerning the "communist witch-hunt" era. In the years following World War II, several ambitious Washington politicos were anxious to...
Cast: George Kennedy John Mills
Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 95min
A simple man becomes bent on violent revenge in this hriller. John Kinsdale (George Kennedy) is an American who lives with his wife and three children in Naples, Italy, where he's employed by NATO as an electronics expert. Kinsdale and his good...
Cast: Ennio Morricone Raquel Welch
Tags: Black Comedy Crime Crime Comedy
Length: 123min
Bluebeard is the retelling of the now familiar story of a wealthy aristocrat who marries and murders and marries again. Baron Von Sepper (Richard Burton), the BlueBeard of the story, meets and marries Anne (Joey Heatherton) who becomes suspicious of...
Cast: Robert Mitchum Peter Falk
Length: 117min
This Dino De Laurentiis-produced re-creation of the decisive Italian military operation top-bills Robert Mitchum as a battle-weary war correspondent. Robert Ryan and Arthur Kennedy play generals, Peter Falk is the lovable Brooklynese corporal, and...
Cast: Brigitte Bardot Sean Connery
Tags: Eurowestern Western
Length: 113min
In this western adventure, Shalako (Sean Connery) leads a hunting expedition in the wilds of New Mexico. There they run across an Apache camp where the Countess Irina (Brigitte Bardot) is being held hostage. When the Indians retaliate by destroying...
Cast: Gregory Peck Walter Matthau
Tags: Psychological Thriller Mystery
Length: 108min
A dazed man, David Stillwell (Gregory Peck), wanders down the stairs of a New York skyscraper during a power blackout, only vaguely aware of who he is, where he's been, and why he has this nagging feeling that danger lurks all about him. Stillwell...
Cast: William Holden
Tags: Western Cavalry Film
Length: 116min
William Holden stars as Alvarez Kelly in this Civil War actioner. While transporting 5,000 head of cattle to the Union forces, Holden is captured by Confederate officer Richard Widmark. Threatened with instant execution if he doesn't cooperate, Holden...
Cast: Alan Ladd George Peppard
Tags: Romance Showbiz Drama Film a Clef Drama
Length: 150min
Edward Dmytryk brings Harold Robbins' trashy, dirt-dishing Hollywood best-seller to the screen with George Peppard starring as Jonas Cord, a rancidly-sketched portrait of Howard Hughes. In 1925, when his father dies of a stroke, Jonas inherits the...
Cast: Bette Davis
Tags: Drama Melodrama Courtroom Drama
Length: 114min
Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, comes this family drama from director Edward Dmytryk. Adapted for the the screen by John Michael Hayes, the film follows the events that befall Luke Miller (Michael Connors) when he discovers that his daughter,...
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck Jane Fonda Anne Baxter
Tags: Period Film Melodrama Drama
Length: 114min
This moody and controversial drama takes place in Depression-era New Orleans. Dove (Laurence Harvey) has traveled by bus from Texas to find his wayward lover Hallie (Capucine). He meets young Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda) as the two get off in the crescent...
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