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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 12 members
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Rosebud
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Kim Cattrall
Director: Otto Preminger
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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.
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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: 
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 322 members
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In Harm's Way
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal
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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from 382 members
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Exodus
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Benson
Director: Otto Preminger
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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 »
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
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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 »
71%
from 3,558 members
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Bonjour Tristesse
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg
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 »
60%
from 653 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.
52%
from 12 members
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The Man With The Golden Arm
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Doro Merande, Frank Sinatra, George E. Stone
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 »
66%
from 768 members
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Carmen Jones
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Olga James
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 »
64%
from 701 members
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River of No Return
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, Rory Calhoun
Director: Otto Preminger
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A western tale, set in the days of the California Gold Rush, in which Miss Monroe appears as a saloon singer who falls into the capable arms of Robert Mitchum after she is cruelly abandoned by her husband, Calhoun.
64%
from 489 members
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Stalag 17
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger
Director: Billy Wilder
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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 »
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from 1,579 member
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Angel Face
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
Director: Otto Preminger
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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 »
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
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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 »
69%
from 751 members
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The Fan
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Richard Greene, Madeleine Carroll, Jeanne Crain
Director: Otto Preminger
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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 »
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from 61 members
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Whirlpool
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Gene Tierney, Jose Ferrer, Richard Conte
Director: Otto Preminger
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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 »
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from 451 members
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Fallen Angel
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, Linda Darnell
Director: Otto Preminger
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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 »
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
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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.
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from 44 members
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Margin For Error/A Royal Scandal
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Charles Coburn, Milton Berle, Anne Baxter
Director: Otto Preminger
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Two classic films by Oscar-nominated director and actor Otto Preminger.Set in pre-WWII New York, MARGIN FOR ERROR stars Milton Berle as a Jewish policeman assigned to guard Nazi consul Karl Baumer (Preminger). Putting the blue into blue-blooded, A ROYAL SCANDAL is a fictionalised account of Russia'..read more »
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from 48 members
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Otto Preminger facts
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... '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....
