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Edward Dmytryk
Edward Dmytryk was a film director whose career was heavily curtailed due to the blacklist of the 1940s/1950s & HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities).
He was born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada on 4 September 1908. His parents were both Ukranian & settled in Grand Forks - a few miles north of the American border. When WWI erupted, the Canadian government began interning all immigrants who had been citizens of the Austro-Hungarian empire. As a result his family moved across the border from Canada to the United States to Northport, Washington. They lived there until 1917 when Dmytryk's mother died at the age of 33. His father then moved with his four sons to San Francisco for 2 years. After that his father remarried & they all moved to a suburb of Los Angeles, now called West Hollywood. Dmytryk became a naturalised American citizen in 1939 - the year before he became a "full-fledged film director".
He is known because he is/was one of the "Hollywood Ten". The Hollywood Ten were 7 screenwriters, 2 directors and 1 producer. All of whom were cited for contempt of Congress (they would not 'name names' of other supposed 'communists') as a result of the HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities) investigations & all served 1 year federal prison sentences in 1950.
He is best known for his film noir works - Crossfire (1947), Murder my Sweet (US)/Farewell my Lovely (UK) (1944), But prior to them, he made numerous 'B' movies including 'Hitler's Children', which, according to Dymtryk himself in his book Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten, was his "passport to fame and fortune". He also made Tender Comrade (1943) which starred Ginger Rogers and was aimed at the wives & women workers of the American wartime economy.
He received his subpoena from HUAC in September 1947. He refused to name names when put in front of the committee & went to prison as a result - just as the other 9 of the Hollywood Ten did. After he served his sentence, however, he went back in front of the committee & did name names (names that were already known, but names nonetheless) so that he could work again. His career as a director never rebounded to its former glory, but he did teach at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) & at the University of Texas at Austin. He died in 1999.
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The Human Factor
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: George Kennedy, John Mills, Raf Vallone
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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George Kennedy stars in this 1970s revenge film as John Kinsdale, a military employee stationed in Naples who uses state-of-the-art (for the time) computer technology to track down the terrorists who killed his family. Local police inspector Dr. Lupo (Raf Vallone) and Kinsdale’s commander (Arthur ..read more »
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Shalako
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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In late-19th-century New Mexico, a hunting party of decadent European aristocrats wanders onto the reservation of some angry Apaches, and it's up to the mysterious wanderer, Shalako (Sean Connery), to save them from getting slaughtered. The group includes Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore in GOLDFINGER) ..read more »
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Anzio
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Arthur Kennedy
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Classic World War II story of the Allied landing at Anzio Beach in Italy, the first and most costly battle of the Italian Campaign. Robert Mitchum stars as an American news correspondent covering the landing, under fire, of British and American troops. Based on a novel by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas.
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Alvarez Kelly
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: William Holden, Victoria Shaw, Janice Rule
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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William Holden (NETWORK, SUNSET BOULEVARD) stars in this rugged Western--based on an actual incident--as a Mexican-Irish rancher who sells his herd to the Union army during the Civil War. An eye-patch-wearing Confederate colonel (Richard Widmark) tries to buy the cattle, but apolitical Kelly doesn'..read more »
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Walk On The Wild Side
(1962)
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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At the Dolls House, a 1930's bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both the clients and for Jo, the Madame. Her comfortable if not tedious existence is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of 3 years before who has been searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the ..read more »
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Warlock
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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The town of Warlock is plagued by a gang of thugs, leading the inhabitants to hire Clay Blaisdell, a famous gunman, to act as Marshal. Various townspeople, concerned by the illegality of Blaisdell's position, induce one of the thugs, who has reformed, to accept the post of Sheriff in rivalry to the ..read more »
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The End Of The Affair
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Peter Cushing, Peter Cushing
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Sarah Miles (Deborah Kerr)--the unhappy wife of a meek civil servant (Peter Cushing)--falls into a passionate love affair with American expatriate writer William Bendrix (Van Johnson) during the London Blitz. After an air raid interrupts one of their trysts, Sally inexplicably cuts the affair short,..read more »
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Broken Lance
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water. When questioned about the raid, to spare his father, his son, Joe takes responsibility and is sentenced to three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke, and so when Joe is released, he plans his revenge.
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The Caine Mutiny
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Jose Ferrer
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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In director Edward Dmytryk's classic seafaring drama, privileged mama's boy Ensign Keith (Robert Francis) gets assigned to the Caine, a rusty old minesweeper with a haggard, undisciplined crew during the latter days of WWII. Soon the paranoid, strawberry-loving Captain Queeg (Humprey Bogart) takes ..read more »
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Obsession
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Sally Gray, Phil Brown, Robert Newton
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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In the thriller Obsession, Robert Newton stars as a possessed doctor humilitaed by his faithless wife's love for a younger man. He plans to rid himself of her lover by means of an acid bath murder...
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Murder, My Sweet. Farewell, My Lovely
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Features the film noir titles THE KILLERS (1946), DOUBLE INDEMNITY, THE BIG STEAL, CROSSFIRE, OUT OF THE PAST, THE BLUE DAHLIA, THE GLASS KEY, THIS GUN FOR HIRE, and FAREWELL MY LOVELY.
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D-Day, The Sixth Of June
on DVD
Starring: Robert Taylor, May Britt, Richard Todd
Director: Henry Koster, Edward Dmytryk
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In this electrifying film, Robert Taylor portrays Captain Brad Parker, an American officer on the front lines on June 6. 1944, D-Day, when 3,000,000 men, 11,000 planes and 4,000 ships will come together to invade Normandy and determine the world's future. And since Parker and his commander (Richard ..read more »
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