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  • The Man With The Golden Arm
  • The Man With The Golden Arm review by A customer from Bedtime, London
    Rated - 5.0 stars ****** 5 March 2004
    ... 'hero' or Noir protagonist Sinatra's Frankie Machine or Elenor Parker's Zosch? Otto Preminger directs flawlessly and Saul Bass provides much-imitated title graphics....   Read customer review
  • Fallen Angel
  • Fallen Angel review by from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Good (not great) noir 22 February 2005
    ...little time slinging hash). Despite this opening, and despite being directed by Otto Preminger (known for his controlled and expressive camera work), it goes flat after about...   Read customer review
  • Where The Sidewalk Ends
  • Where The Sidewalk Ends review by from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars On The Dark Side of The Street 22 March 2005
    ...A terrific noir thriller reuniting the director and stars of Laura; Otto Preminger, Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney. In Laura, Preminger dealt with New York's corrupt upper cla...   Read customer review

Otto Preminger - filmography


  • The Human Factor (1979)
    Starring: Richard Attenborough,  Joop Doderer,  John Gielgud
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Graham Greene's novel, this is a story of a world peopled by lonely men cut off from the luxury of communication, a world where a leak of relatively unimportant information can be the catalyst for a witch hunt, and it's one man's duty to point the finger... Colonel John ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 12 members
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  • Rosebud on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Peter O'Toole,  Richard Attenborough,  Kim Cattrall
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Legendary filmmaker Otto Preminger (BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM) directs this dramatic tale concerning a group of terrorists who kidnap five beautiful women from a yacht in Greece and hold them for ransom.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 73 members
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  • Bunny Lake Is Missing on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Laurence Olivier,  Carol Lynley,  Keir Dullea
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on the mystery novel by Marryam Modell (using the pseudonym Evelyn Piper), Bunny Lake Is Missing is a bizarre study in motherhood, kindness, enigma, and insanity. Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), an American freshly relocated to England, wishes to drop off her daughter Bunny for the girl's first day ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 322 members
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  • In Harm's Way on DVD (1965)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Kirk Douglas,  Patricia Neal
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it was shown on network television in prime time, it was broken into two very full nights). On the morning of December 7, 1941, a heavy cruiser, commanded by Captain Rockwell ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 382 members
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  • Exodus on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Ralph Richardson,  Lee J. Cobb,  Martin Benson
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on Leon Uris' sweeping novel, "Exodus" is the epic saga of the founding of Israel in the days following World War II. Paul Newman stars as an Israeli resistance fighter, a member of the Hagannah, involved in the effort to bring a group of 600 European Jews from British-blockaded Cyprus into ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 660 members
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  • Anatomy Of A Murder on DVD (1959)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Lee Remick,  Ben Gazzara
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A riveting courtroom drama of rape and premeditated murder is brought to life with an all-star cast in the suspenseful and highly-acclaimed Anatomy Of A Murder. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture (1959), the film pits a humble small-town lawyer (James Stewart) against a hard-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 3,558 members
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  • Bonjour Tristesse on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Deborah Kerr,  David Niven,  Jean Seberg
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Francoise Sagan's bittersweet novel Bonjour Tristesse is given a sumptuous Riviera-filmed screen treatment. David Niven plays a wealthy playboy, the father of teenaged libertine-in-the-making Jean Seberg. Seberg tolerates most of her father's mistresses, but doesn't know what to make of the prudish ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 653 members
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  • Saint Joan (1957)
    Starring: Richard Widmark,  Richard Todd,  John Gieldgud
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 12 members
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  • Carmen Jones on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Harry Belafonte,  Dorothy Dandridge,  Olga James
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In 1943, Oscar Hammerstein Jr. took Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, rewrote the lyrics, changed the characters from 19th century Spaniards to World War II-era African-Americans, switched the locale to a Southern military base, and the result was Carmen Jones. Dorothy Dandridge stars as Carmen Jones, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 701 members
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  • Stalag 17 on DVD (1952)
    Starring: William Holden,  Don Taylor,  Otto Preminger
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Billy Wilder's adaptation of the Broadway hit stars William Holden as the cynical Sefton. Set in the eponymous German prison camp during WWII, the director's broad, black comedy focuses on a group of decidedly unheroic prisoners. While they spend most of their time trying to entertain each other ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,579 member
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  • Angel Face on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  Jean Simmons,  Mona Freeman
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons team in this outstanding example of classic Noir. Directed by Otto Preminger (Laura, The Man with The Golden Arm). Mitchum is at his best as Frank Jessup, an ambulance driver, driven and ensnared by Simmons who demonstrates her own brilliant talents in this ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 265 members
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  • Where The Sidewalk Ends on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Gene Tierney,  Gary Merrill
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Dana Andrews stars as brutal cop Mark Dixon who previously had been in trouble with his superiors for his brutal methods. When Dixon accidently kills a murder suspect he knows his career will be over if he is discovered. He decides to dispose of the body and pin the murder on someone else. However ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 751 members
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  • The Fan on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Richard Greene,  Madeleine Carroll,  Jeanne Crain
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Otto Preminger directed 1949 adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde 4 act comedy 'Lady Windermere's Fan' starring Jeanne Craine, Madeleine Carroll and George Sanders. The witty dialogue flows as misunderstanding follows misunderstanding in the tangled lives of an aristocratic couple leading finally ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 61 members
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  • Whirlpool on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Gene Tierney,  Jose Ferrer,  Richard Conte
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this intriguing 1950 film noir, Gene Tierney plays Ann Sutton, the wife of a successful psychoanalyst, who is arrested for shoplifting. Scandal is averted due to the intervention of hypnotist David Korvo (Jose Ferrer) but he manipulates Ann as he knows she really is a shoplifter. This ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 451 members
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  • Fallen Angel on DVD (1945)
    Starring: Dana Andrews,  Alice Faye,  Linda Darnell
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), is a down-on-his-luck press agent who isliving in a small Californian town and begins to frequent a diner called "Pop's Eats" , where he meets a beautiful waitress by the name of Stella (Linda Darnell). He falls for Stella but she is not interested in him. Eric decides ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 541 members
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  • Danger - Love At Work on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Jack Haley,  John Carradine,  Ann Sothern
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Lawyer Henry MacMorrow is struggling to get the scatty Pemberton family to agree on a large property deal. Noticing that the eldest daughter is rather more tuned on than the rest of the family, he turns to her for help.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 44 members
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Otto Preminger facts

5 most recent films

The Human Factor - 2.5 stars
The Hobbit - 3.0 stars
Rosebud - 2.5 stars
Bunny Lake Is Missing - 3.5 stars
In Harm's Way - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Ghost And Mrs Muir - Gene Tierney Collection - 3.5 stars
Laura - Gene Tierney Collection - 3.5 stars
Anatomy Of A Murder - 3.5 stars
Stalag 17 - 3.5 stars
Where The Sidewalk Ends - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Danger - Love At Work - 2.5 stars
The Human Factor - 2.5 stars
Saint Joan - 2.5 stars
The Hobbit - 3.0 stars
Advise and Consent - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gene Tierney - 8 times - show films
George Sanders - 7 times - show films
Jeanne Crain - 7 times - show films
Preston Foster - 6 times - show films
Vincent Price - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John Ford - 7 times - show films
William A. Wellman - 7 times - show films
John M. Stahl - 2 times - show films
William A. Well - 1 times - show films
Billy Wilder - 1 times - show films