Robert Siodmak

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Criss Cross review by from Manchester

Film Noir Heaven 9 June 2005
...dame) isn't one you'll find original, but in the hands of seasoned professional Robert Siodmak, an unheralded noir pro, it snaps shut with the inevitability of Greek Tragedy.... Read customer review

Custer Of The West on DVD (1967)
Starring: Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Jeffrey Hunter
Director: Robert Siodmak
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General Custer takes charge of the 9th Cavalry and is ordered to drive the Indians away from their land. When gold is discovered on the reservation men begin to desert...

53% from 195 members

The Killers (1964)
Starring: Angie Dickinson, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster
Director: Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak
Certificate:
based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. Don Siegel builds another whole world around Hemingway's premise. The two assassins of Siegel's film go in search of their intended victim - a teacher at a school for the blind - and find that he not only recognises his fate when they show up, but seems ..read more »

70% from 74 members
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The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Starring: Lloyd Bridges, Dorothy Gish, Anne Francis
Director: Robert Siodmak
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A young union leader is appointed president of a failing New England plastics factory just as automation threatens to cut the labour force in half. The small town of Eaton Falls, NH is trapped between tradition and progress. With 90 days to bankruptcy, it will take a lot of Yankee ingenuity to ..read more »

50% from 1 member
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The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly
Director: Robert Siodmak
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No one is as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she's bad. Here Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who late one night shows up in the office of happily married Assistant DA Cleve Marshall (Wendell Corey) to seek help in solving the string of robberies at her wealthy aunt's estate. Before Cleve can ..read more »

70% from 4 members
Currently unavailable

Criss Cross (1949)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Robert Siodmak
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Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former wife. However, Anna belongs now to the L.A. underworld. Steve believes he can rescue her, ignoring the advice and warnings of people who would try to save him. He commits himself to a dangerous course ..read more »

56% from 23 members
Currently unavailable

The Dark Mirror (1946)
Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Olivia De Havilland, Lew Ayres
Director: Robert Siodmak
Certificate:
A man is murdered, and several witnesses can place Ruth Collins at the scene of the crime. But Ruth has a twin sister, Terry, who has been diagnosed as a psychotic. When Ruth falls for the psychiatrist who evaluates the two sisters, will Terry strike again?

60% from 23 members
Due for release on 26th November 2012

The Spiral Staircase on DVD (1946)
Starring: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore
Director: Robert Siodmak
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The wonderfully suspenseful psychological drama Spiral Staircase is the prototype of the old dark house, lady in distress thriller, full of dark corners, flickering candles and featuring a mysterious, menacing killer whose true identity remains hidden until the end. Helen Capel (Dorothy McGuire), ..read more »

64% from 497 members

The Killers on DVD (1946)
Starring: Angie Dickinson, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster
Director: Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak
Certificate:
A former fighter awaits the arrival of his executioners. When they arrive they shoot him dead without a fight. An insurance investigator must decide why it is that a man gave up his life so easily...

75% from 386 members

Cobra Woman on DVD (1944)
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Maria Montez, Jon Hall
Director: Robert Siodmak
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Upon discovering his fiancée Tollea has been kidnaped, Ramu and his friend Kado set out for a Pacific isle where all strangers are to be killed on arrival and the inhabitants, who are frequently sacrificed to an angry volcano god, worship the cobra. The island is ruled over by Tollea's evil twin ..read more »

58% from 38 members

Christmas Holiday on DVD (1944)
Starring: Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf
Director: Robert Siodmak
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Abigail Manette (Deanna Durbin) is a woman with a questionable past who owns a sleazy nightclub and is involved in a nefarious underworld. Her husband has been incarcerated for life on charges of murder and Abigail thinks he's safely locked away, but he's actually escaped and is on a jealous ..read more »

54% from 363 members

Son Of Dracula on DVD (1943)
Starring: Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Lon Chaney Jr.
Director: Robert Siodmak
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The count begins a relationship with a lovely southern belle with an interest in eternal life, against the wishes of her fiancé.

60% from 76 members

People On Sunday on DVD (1929)
Starring: Edgar G. Ulmer, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann
Director: Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak
Certificate:
Classic silent movie from Germany featuring talent that later went onto direct critically acclaimed movies both in Germany and the US.

70% from 298 members

Custer Of The West - 2.5 stars
The Killers - 3.5 stars
The Whistle at Eaton Falls - 2.5 stars
The File on Thelma Jordon - 3.5 stars
Criss Cross - 3.0 stars

The Killers - 4.0 stars
The Killers - 3.5 stars
People On Sunday - 3.5 stars
The Spiral Staircase - 3.0 stars
Son Of Dracula - 3.0 stars

The Whistle at Eaton Falls - 2.5 stars
Cobra Woman - 3.0 stars
Criss Cross - 3.0 stars
The Dark Mirror - 3.0 stars
The File on Thelma Jordon - 3.5 stars

Burt Lancaster - 3 times - show films
Edmond O'Brien - 2 times - show films
Angie Dickinson - 2 times - show films
John Cassavetes - 2 times - show films
Lee Marvin - 2 times - show films

Don Siegel - 3 times - show films
Curt Siodmak - 1 times - show films