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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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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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In Harm's Way
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal
Director: Otto Preminger
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A navy man goes out to capture strategic islands held by the Japanese during World War II. It doesn't get more macho than this: IN HARM'S WAY was directed by Otto Preminger and stars John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, and many more tough guys.
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
(1965)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea
Director: Otto Preminger
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This classic psychological thriller from Otto Preminger (BONJOUR TRISTESSE, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM) stars Carol Lynley as Ann Lake, a single mum who has just moved to London with her young daughter, Bunny. When she arrives to pick Bunny up from nursery school, she finds that her daughter has ..read more »
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Exodus
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson
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 »
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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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Director Otto Preminger thrives in tense legal showdowns and this is perhaps his best, mostly for Jimmy Stewart's cagey performance as a deceptively wily small-town lawyer. The sensationalist trial revolves around an army lieutenant who shoots a bar owner for allegedly raping his wife, an ugly ..read more »
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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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The Man With The Golden Arm
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker
Director: Otto Preminger
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Otto Preminger's THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM is a powerful drama which broached the subject of drug addiction in a stark and realistic manner. It may appear mild by today's standards, but it stands an exceptionally harrowing film for its day. Frank Sinatra plays the addict, Frankie Machine, with ..read more »
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Carmen Jones
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Olga James
Director: Otto Preminger
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Screen version of the musical "Carmen Jones," which adapted Bizet's opera "Carmen" for an all-black cast. Army soldier Joe (Harry Belafonte) falls in love with Carmen (Dorothy Dandridge in an Oscar nominated role), a beautiful and seductive factory worker. When he kills his sergeant during a fight, ..read more »
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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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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 »
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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 »
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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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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 succesful 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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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 »
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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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River of No Return
on DVD
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.
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Bonjour Tristesse
on DVD
Starring: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg
Director: Otto Preminger
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Cecile and her father Raymond live a luxurious life, filled with pleasure-seeking excesses. All this is threatened, however, when Raymond decides to marry Cecile's conservative godmother, Anne. Desperate to maintain her lifestyle, Cecile plots to drive Anne away... Based on Francoise Sagan's ..read more »
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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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Such Good Friends
to Watch Now
(1971)
Starring: Richard B. Shull, Clarice Taylor, Lawrence Tierney
Director: Otto Preminger
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Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 101 minutes
Julie Messinger (Dyan Cannon) has it made. She is a New York housewife whose husband, Richard (Laurence Luckinbill), is an editor for a prominent photography magazine. They have a small circle of friends, including well-meaning, but inept Dr. Timothy Spector (James Coco), photographer Cal Whiting (..read more »
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Otto Preminger facts
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****** 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....
Good (not great) noir 22 February 2005
On The Dark Side of The Street 22 March 2005
