Philip French's Screen legends: No 32, French MacMurray 1908-91
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
No 32: French MacMurray 1908-91
Edward Dmytryk
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Hitler's Children - 2:25am
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Hitler's Children2:25am Wednesday, 01 Oct 2008 Repeat PG A Nazi tries recruiting more children into the Third Reich, and falls for a woman who is set for forced sterilisation because of her anti-Hitler attitudes. CAST: Tim Holt, Bonita Granville DIR: Edward Dmytryk (1942)
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Give Us this Day
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Edward Dmytryk - 1949 Allday Entertainment Region 1 DVD On the occasion of Edward Dmytryk's 100th Birthday. Is now the time to give Edward Dmytryk a full reevaluation? Are we distant enough from the past events? I know that...
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Peck, Rossellini, and Julianne Moore on Your Way
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
For the first time on DVD in the US, Universal will release Stanley Donen's espionage thriller Arabesque , starring Gregory Peck and Sofia Loren, on 4 November. It will also be a part of a Gregory Peck boxset which includes Edward Dmytryk's Mirage (with Walter Matthau), David Miller's Captain Newman, M.D. (with Tony Curtis and Angie Dickinson), Raoul Walsh's The World in His Arms (with Anthony Quinn),...
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Cornered - 1:55am
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
An ex-Canadian officer and POW survivor tracks down those responsible for his wife's death in France. CAST: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale DIR: Edward Dmytryk (1945)
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The Sniper (Edward Dmytryk, 1952)
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Alfred Hitchcock was a voracious filmgoer, and like many great artists, a bit of a magpie. Consciously or unconsciously, he would file away shots and sequences that impressed him, and years later some of them would re-emerge, reshaped by Hitchcock’s genius and fully integrated into his personal universe. As “Vertigo” turns 50 this weekend, I’m [...]
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Murder, My Sweet - 12:55am
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Raymond Chandler's famous private eye, Philip Marlowe, is hired to search for the girlfriend of an ex-con. From the novel 'Farewell My Lovely'. CAST: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor DIR: Edward Dmytryk (1945)
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Brando, Bunuel, and the Meaning of a “Character”
CultureFeast (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Marlon Brando upset a lot of people with his specific interpretation of the Nazi officer Lt. Christian Diestl in Edward Dmytryk's The Young Lions (1958). The politically incorrect Brando tried to infuse the Dieslt character with a heroic sub-text. He even suggested that at the end of the movie he should come down from the mountain where [...]
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Three Obsessions: Dassin, Dietrich, Dirty Mad Dog
Sunset Gun (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
After a curious absence from my usual triad of obsessions, I'm back at it, with DVDs I'm excited about and a few return offenders that are getting, as one horny old lady from Elvis: That's the Way It Is so...
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Jules Dassin, blacklisted filmmaker, dies at 96
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Dassin is most widely remembered for films he made after he fled Hollywood in the 1950s because of past ties to the Communist Party, including "Never on Sunday," "Topkapi" and "Rififi."
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Jules Dassin Dies
Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Jules Dassin, 96, an American filmmaker who was blacklisted for alleged communist sympathies and who flourished as an expatriate with the celebrated “Rififi” and “Never on Sunday,” died March 31 at an Athens hospital. The cause of death was not clear, although Agence France-Presse reported that he died of complications from the flu. … As he [...]
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TCM to salute Richard Widmark with three films
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
Actor Richard Widmark, who died earlier this week at age 93, will receive a three-film salute from Turner Classic Movies on April 4. The lineup: 8 p.m.: "Alvarez Kelly," a Civil War drama from 1966 co-stars William Holden. Edward Dmytryk...
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Crossfire - 2:30am
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
Crossfire2:30am Wednesday, 05 Mar 2008 Repeat PG A Jewish man is murdered in a New York Hotel. CAST: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum DIR: Edward Dmytryk (1947)
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Kramer legacy lives
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
Karen Sharpe made her movie debut, at the age of 18, in "The Sniper," one of the resourceful, low-budget features produced by Stanley Kramer in the years following World War II. She didnt meet him...
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Hitler's Children - 4:30am
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
A Nazi tries recruiting more children into the Third Reich, and falls for a woman who is set for forced sterilisation because of her anti-Hitler attitudes. CAST: Tim Holt, Bonita Granville DIR: Edward Dmytryk (1942)
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