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: Spencer Tracy Richard Widmark Robert Wagner
Tags: Family Drama Western Psychological Western
Length: 105min
In this Western with curiously Shakespearean undertones, Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) is a ranch owner who has tried to raise his sons to carry on the fierce, hard-working spirit that helped make him a success. However, as a consequence, he never...
Cast: Kirk Douglas Alf Kjellin
Tags: Detective Film Drama Mystery Romance
Length: 86min
A man finds himself running from both the police and his own troubling memories in this drama. Hans Muller (Kirk Douglas), a German Jew, was once a well-known juggler before he was committed to a concentration camp; Muller survived, but his wife and...
Cast: Angela Lansbury
Tags: Adventure Action War Adventure Sea Adventure
Length: 76min
Director Edward Dmytryk returned from a few unhappy years on the Blacklist in the early 1950s, to direct a handful of programmers before being restored to "A" pictures. Dmytrk's Mutiny is set during the War of 1812. Mark Stevens, captain of the...
Cast: Adolphe Menjou
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller Police Detective Film
Length: 87min
The "regeneration" of blacklisted director Edward Dmytryk was expedited when he was hired by producer Stanley Kramer to helm the location-filmed melodrama The Sniper. In the interests of political expediency, Dmytrk was required to direct Adolphe...
Cast: Robert Newton Nino Rota
Tags: Crime Thriller Drama Mystery Crime Thriller
Length: 98min
Blacklisted in Hollywood, director Edward Dmytryk managed to find work in England. Dmytryk's Obsession is based on Alec Coppel's suspense play -A Man About a Dog. Robert Newton stars as Dr. Clive Riordan, the insanely jealous husband of unfaithful...
Cast: Lee Marvin
Tags: Combat Films Drama
Length: 80min
Bonar Colleano, who spent the war years playing brash Americans in British films, makes his final screen appearance in the Stanley Kramer production Eight Iron Men. Set during WW II, the film follows the exploits of a small Army squadron, billeted in...
Cast: Robert Young Robert Ryan
Tags: Social Problem Film Police Detective Film Mystery Crime Drama Film Noir
Length: 86min
This drama was one of the first major-studio efforts to confront anti-Semitism (beating the Oscar-winning Gentleman's Agreement by several months), and it features a standout performance from Robert Ryan as a bigoted soldier on the run. Monty...
Tags: Urban Drama Family Drama Drama
Length: 120min
On the outs in Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam...
Cast: Robert Mitchum Guy Madison Dorothy McGuire
Length: 105min
Sometimes dismissed as a derivation of Samuel Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives, RKO Radio's superb Till the End of Time was actually based on Niven Busch's novel They Dream of Home, and was completed and released several months before the Goldwyn...
Cast: John Mills Patricia Roc Trevor Howard Richard Carlson
Tags: Drama
Length: 114min
So Well Remembered was the first of a proposed series of Anglo-American co-productions underwritten by Hollywood's RKO Radio Pictures and England's J. Arthur Rank. In one of his better postwar roles, John Mills stars as George Boswell, the editor of...
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