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Edward Dmytryk

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Murder, My SweetMurder, My Sweet (Farewell, My Lovely) (1944) Recommended
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
An iconic 'noir' whose unsavoury storyline is taken from Raymond Chandler's classic novel. Powell plays a detective dragged into a murky case of…
CrossfireCrossfire (1947) Recommended
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
Controversial Best Picture nominee, with Robert Mitchum investigating an anti–Semitic murder committed amongst American soldiers recently…
ObsessionObsession (The Hidden Room) (1949)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Robert Newton, Phil Brown
Loaded film noir of jealously gone awry, with Robert Newton kidapping his wife’s latest adulterous fling, and threatening, among other things, a…
MutinyMutiny (1952)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Mark Stevens
Adventure movie set during the War of 1812, where a captain collecting a war loan of gold finds that his crew have plotted a mutiny to try to obtain…
Sniper, TheSniper, The (1952) Recommended
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr
Film noir shot on location in San Francisco, with Arthur Franz (THE CAINE MUTINY) playing a disturbed professional driver who harbours misogynistic…
Caine Mutiny, TheCaine Mutiny, The (1954)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Humphrey Bogart
Solid action with unstable Ship's Captain Humphrey Bogart contending with mutinies and typhoons.
Broken LanceBroken Lance (1954)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters
King Lear loosely transposed as a gripping Western melodrama with proud yet stubborn patriarch Spencer Tracy at odds with his ungrateful sons over…
End of the Affair, TheEnd of the Affair, The (1954)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills
Original screen adaptation of Graham Greene’s tale of unrequited wartime love, with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson entangled in a brief but illicit…
Soldier of FortuneSoldier of Fortune (1955)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie
Mercenary Clark Gable is recruited to search for Hayward's lost husband in this proficient Hong Kong set thriller. Anti–communist thriller…
Raintree CountyRaintree County (1957)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint
Civil War set romance has Montgomery Clift as a schoolteacher whojoins the Union Army as they march into Georgia in the hope of finding his estranged…
Young Lions, The (1958)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin
Sensitive, well–mounted WW2 epic charts the effect of war on young lives from both sides. Marlon Brando as a confused German commandant…
WarlockWarlock (1959) Recommended
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
A–grade western set in the lawless town of Warlock where the citizens hire a notorious gunman to keep the peace who brings with him his own set…
Walk on the Wild SideWalk on the Wild Side (1962)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Jane Fonda, Capucine
A schlocky tease–fest with Laurence Harvey as a penniless cowboy who hitches to New Orleans with a drifter (Jane Fonda) searching for his…
Carpetbaggers, TheCarpetbaggers, The (1964)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Carroll Baker
Drama based on the best–selling 1961 novel by Harold Robbins about a cheerfully vulgar business tycoon (perhaps modelled off Howard Hughes),…
MirageMirage (1965)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
An excellent example of the Hitchcockian thriller with Peck an amnesiac caught up in the murder of a philanthropist.
Alvarez KellyAlvarez Kelly (1966)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. William Holden, Richard Widmark
Set during the American Civil War, this violent western concerns a running feud between the leads over cattle–rustling activities.
ShalakoShalako (1968)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Sean Connery, Stephen Boyd
Silver screen vamp Brigitte Bardot teams up with Sean Connery in this "damsel in distress" western, where a hunting party who've wandered onto the…
AnzioAnzio (1968)
Dir. Edward Dmytryk, Duilio Coletti
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Arthur Kennedy
Robert Mitchum and Peter Falk lead an international cast for this ropey war epic – an Italian–American co–production about…

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