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Otto Preminger
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Otto Preminger - filmography
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The Human Factor
(1979)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer, John Gielgud
Director: Otto Preminger
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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 »
 
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from 14 members
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Rosebud
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Kim Cattrall
Director: Otto Preminger
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Political thriller directed by Otto Preminger. When the yacht 'Rosebud' is stormed by Palestinian terrorists, the daughters of five millionaires are taken hostage and held to ransom. Led by Islamic convert Edward Sloat (Richard Attenborough), the Black September group hold the girls in an ..read more »
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from 87 members
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In Harm's Way
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Paula Prentiss, Kirk Douglas, Dana Andrews
Director: Otto Preminger
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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 »
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Keir Dullea
Director: Otto Preminger
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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 »
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from 373 members
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Exodus
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Alexandra Stewart, Ralph Richardson
Director: Otto Preminger
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In 1947, Israel struggles for independence as the European Jewish survivors of Nazi death camps migrate to new lands. Leader of the Haganah Ben Canaan (Paul Newman) employs moderate methods to ensure his people's rights. While he battles to gain partition in Palestine, a romance develops between ..read more »
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from 704 members
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Anatomy Of A Murder
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick, James Stewart
Director: Otto Preminger
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Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Traver (the pseudonym for Michigan Supreme Court justice John D. Voelker), Anatomy of a Murder stars James Stewart as seat-of-the-pants Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler. Through the intervention of his alcoholic mentor, Parnell McCarthy (Arthur O'Connell), ..read more »
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from 3,830 members
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Bonjour Tristesse
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Walter Chiari, Geoffrey Horne, Deborah Kerr
Director: Otto Preminger
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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 »
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from 682 members
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Saint Joan
(1957)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, John Gieldgud
Director: Otto Preminger
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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.
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from 13 members
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The Man With The Golden Arm
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Eleanor Parker, Robert Strauss, Doro Merande
Director: Otto Preminger
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When Otto Preminger was willing to release his drug-addiction drama Man With the Golden Arm without the sanction of a Production Code seal, it proved to be yet another nail in the coffin of that censorial dinosaur. Based on the novel by Nelson Algren, the film stars Frank Sinatra as Frankie Machine,..read more »
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from 817 members
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Carmen Jones
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, Harry Belafonte
Director: Otto Preminger
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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 »
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from 727 members
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River of No Return
(1954)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, Rory Calhoun
Director: Otto Preminger
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A widower, his son and a nightclub singer (abandoned by her husband), travel downstream for various reasons. En-route they begin to form their own surrogate family, which acts as a replacement for the broken homes they have left behind. Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe star.
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from 524 members
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Stalag 17
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Robert Strauss, William Holden, Don Taylor
Director: Billy Wilder
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Two POWs are killed as they attempt to escape from the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17. The blame for their betrayal falls upon the cynical, self-serving Sergeant Sefton (an Oscar-winning William Holden), whose dealings with the enemy isolate him from his fellow inmates. But does Sefton's ..read more »
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from 1,696 member
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Angel Face
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Morgan Farley, Leon Ames
Director: Otto Preminger
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Jean Simmons' fascinating interpretation of an uncharacteristic role is the main drawing card of Otto Preminger's Angel Face. The daughter of Charles Treymayne (Herbert Marshall), who remarried a wealthy woman (Barbara O'Neil), Diane Treymayne's (Simmons) angelic countenance masks an unbridled ..read more »
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from 318 members
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Where The Sidewalk Ends
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Gary Merrill, Dana Andrews, Bert Freed
Director: Otto Preminger
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Mark Dixon (Dana Andrews) is a corrupt cop, in this gritty thriller shot on the rain-slicked streets of New York. Already in trouble for his brutal methods, alienated from his colleagues, he pursues a gang leader with vindictive zeal and accidentally kills a possible murder suspect. His guilt ..read more »
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from 803 members
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The Fan
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Martita Hunt, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Director: Otto Preminger
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Social comedy based on Oscar Wilde's play, with a screenplay co-written by Dorothy Parker. When the charming but notorious Mrs Erlynne (Madeleine Carroll) reappears after a prolonged banishment from polite society, her presence causes ructions in the household of fashionable young couple Lord and ..read more »
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from 67 members
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Whirlpool
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Charles Bickford, Jose Ferrer, Richard Conte
Director: Otto Preminger
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Ann Sutton is the well-dressed wife of a successful psychoanalyst. When arrested for shoplifting, she is saved from inevitable scandal by the intervention of the suave but slightly sinister hypnotist David Korvo. However, the salvation proves deceptive and she soon finds herself caught up in a web ..read more »
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from 483 members
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Fallen Angel
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Charles Bickford, Linda Darnell, Dana Andrews
Director: Otto Preminger
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Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), a press agent down on his luck, drifts into a small Californian coastal town. He meets June (Alice Faye), a wealthy but reclusive woman, and has his eye on Stella (Linda Darnell), a sultry waitress. In love with Stella but broke, Eric marries June for her money, ..read more »
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from 591 members
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Laura
(1944)
Starring: Preston Foster, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Director: William A. Wellman, Otto Preminger, John Ford
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Nominated for five Academy Awards, this stylish mystery thriller twists and turns with new suspects, new evidence and unexpected revelations. A wealthy, acid-tongued journalist (Clifford Webb) becomes entranced with a beautiful young career woman named Laura (Gene Tierney). But entrancement leads ..read more »
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from 869 members
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Danger - Love At Work
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Jack Haley, John Carradine, Ann Sothern
Director: Otto Preminger
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Classic 1930s screwball comedy, directed by Otto Preminger. Lawyer Henry MacMorrow (Jack Haley) wants the Pemberton family to agree to a large property deal involving part of their estate. Frustrated by the eccentric family, he turns to their beautiful daughter Toni (Ann Sothern) in an attempt to ..read more »
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