Known for Directing
Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was an American film director who was amongst the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who served time in prison for being in contempt of Congress during the McCarthy-era 'red scare'. Although born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada, Dmytryk grew up in San Francisco when his Ukrainian parents moved to the United States. At the age of 31, he became a naturalized citizen. His best known films from the pre-McCarthy period of his career were film noirs Crossfire, for which he received a Best Director Oscar nomination, and Murder, My Sweet, the latter an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely. In addition, he made two World War II films: Hitler's Children, the story of the Hitler youth and Back to Bataan starring John Wayne. The late 1940's was the time of the Second Red Scare, and Dmytryk was one of many filmmakers investigated. Summoned to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), he refused to cooperate and was sent to jail. After spending several months behind bars, Dmytryk made the decision to testify again, and give the names of his fellow members in the American Communist Party as the HUAC had demanded. On April 25, 1951, Dmytryk appeared before HUAC for the second time, answering all questions. He spoke of his own Party past, a very brief membership in 1945, including the naming of twenty-six former members of left-wing groups. He explained how John Howard Lawson, Adrian Scott, Albert Maltz and others had pressured him to include communist propaganda in his films. His testimony damaged several court cases that others of the so-called "Hollywood 10" had filed. He recounted his experiences of the period in his revealing 1996 book, Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten (Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL). For a time, Dmytryk moved to England, and Stanley Kramer hired him to direct a trio of low-budget films before handing Dmytryk The Caine Mutiny. He made films for major studios Columbia, 20th Century Fox, MGM and Paramount Pictures, including, among others, Raintree County, The Left Hand of God, The Young Lions, a remake of the Marlene Dietrich classic The Blue Angel, and The Carpetbaggers. Later into the 60' and 70's, he directed Where Love Has Gone, Anzio, Alvarez Kelly, Shalako, and his final film Bluebeard. The films which he directed featured stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Richard Burton, Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda. After his film career tapered off in the 1970s, he entered academia and taught at the University of Texas at Austin, and at the University of Southern California. He wrote several books on the art of filmmaking (such as "On Film Editing") and lectured at various colleges and theaters, such as the Orson Welles Cinema. Dmytryk died from heart and kidney failure on 1 July, 1999, aged 90, in Encino, California.
Born
September 4, 1908
Died
July 1, 1999 (age 90)
Birthplace
Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
Filmography
93 films, 1 show


Not Only Strangers
1979 · 23m
country: United States
A college student is raped by an acquaintance, and struggles with reporting the incident.


The Human Factor
1975 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.


He Is My Brother
1975 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Two shipwrecked boys become the focal point of a religious power struggle.


Bluebeard
1972 · 2h 5m
country: Germany
Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.


Shalako
1968 · 1h 53m
country: Germany
While guiding a hunting party of clueless European aristocrats, cowboy Bosky Fulton leads them into hostile Apache territory. Becoming separated from the group, Countess Irina Lazaar experiences the first run-in with an Apache, which results in the tracker Shalako coming to her rescue. Despite Shalako's warning to leave the area immediately, the pampered foreigners fail to take him seriously, leaving them in grave danger.


Anzio
1968 · 1h 57m
country: Italy
American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously.


Alvarez Kelly
1966 · 1h 46m
country: United States
In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until unexpected circumstances force him to change his customers.


Mirage
1965 · 1h 49m
country: United States
After a blackout in his office building, accountant David Stillwell emerges outside to find out a man he did not know either jumped or was pushed out a window to his death — and that he can't remember the past two years of his life. Enlisting the help of a rookie private eye and a reluctant old flame, Stillwell uncovers the mystery detail by unexpected detail.


Where Love Has Gone
1964 · 1h 51m
country: United States
A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.


The Carpetbaggers
1964 · 2h 30m
country: United States
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around on the corporate make in 1930s Hollywood.


The Reluctant Saint
1962 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him to sainthood.


Walk on the Wild Side
1962 · 1h 54m
country: United States
At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam. The arrival of Dove Linkhorn, her lovesick sweetheart from three years ago, disrupts the normal and triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young woman he travelled with, who is now the Doll House's newest employee.


The Blue Angel
1959 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 classic.


Warlock
1959 · 2h 2m
country: United States
A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.


The Young Lions
1958 · 2h 47m
country: United States
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.


Raintree County
1957 · 3h 8m
country: United States
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.


The Mountain
1956 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash victims.


The Left Hand of God
1955 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.


Soldier of Fortune
1955 · 1h 36m
country: United States
An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is led by some underground characters to an American soldier of fortune working in the area against the Communists. He promises to help find her husband.


The End of the Affair
1955 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.


Broken Lance
1954 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Tensions erupt within an Arizona cattle baron's household when his three sons vie for control of the ranch.


The Caine Mutiny
1954 · 2h 4m
country: United States
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
Three Lives
Three Lives
1953 · 23m
country: United States
A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writers Edna and Edward Anhalt, director Edward Dmytryk, and star Arthur Franz.


The Juggler
1953 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.


Eight Iron Men
1952 · 1h 20m
country: United States
During the World War II in Italy, Sergeant Joe Mooney is leading his small squad on the front-lines but is ordered to avoid rescuing a soldier trapped in no man's land.


The Sniper
1952 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.


Mutiny
1952 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered former British Navy captain. Waldridge brings his former gun crew...who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they learn there'll be gold aboard. The gold duly arrives, and with it Waldridge's former sweetheart Leslie, who's fond of a bit of gold herself. Which side is Waldridge really on?


Give Us This Day
1949 · 1h 54m
country: United Kingdom
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.


Obsession
1949 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.


Crossfire
1947 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?


So Well Remembered
1947 · 1h 54m
country: United Kingdom
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.


Till the End of Time
1946 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with bad debts. And Cliff can't decide what he wants to do with his life, although he gets encouragement from war widow Pat Ruscomb.


Cornered
1945 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.


Back to Bataan
1945 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A U.S. Army colonel leads local fighters in a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.


Murder, My Sweet
1944 · 1h 35m
country: United States
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.


Tender Comrade
1944 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.


Behind the Rising Sun
1943 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.


Captive Wild Woman
1943 · 1h 1m
country: United States
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.


The Falcon Strikes Back
1943 · 1h 6m
country: United States
The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.


Hitler's Children
1943 · 1h 22m
country: United States
This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American woman declared legally German by the Nazi government.


Seven Miles from Alcatraz
1942 · 1h 2m
country: United States
After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse island, where they take over. The five inhabitants are stymied in their efforts to summon aid. But the island also figures in the schemes of a big Nazi spy ring; which will win out, the gangsters' greed or their patriotism?


Counter-Espionage
1942 · 1h 13m
country: United States
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.


Confessions of Boston Blackie
1941 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove his innocence.


Secrets of the Lone Wolf
1941 · 1h 6m
country: United States
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.


The Blonde from Singapore
1941 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Fortune hunter Mary Brooks, posing as a missionary's daughter, strives to beat a couple of pilots, Terry Prescott and "Waffles" Billings, (who have turned pearl divers in order to buy a plane and join the Royal Air Force), out of their pearls, while also beating off the advances of Prince Sali who wants to add her to his harem.


The Devil Commands
1941 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A story about a scientist who is obsessed with communicating with the dead.


Sweetheart of the Campus
1941 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.


Under Age
1941 · 1h
country: United States
Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.


Her First Romance
1940 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A bookish co-ed is pranked into attending a formal dance, but her stepsister refuses to help her prepare. With support from a cook and her cousin, she gets a dress, but after learning it’s a joke, she initially declines—until a charming opera star offers to escort her, leading to surprising revelations.


Mystery Sea Raider
1940 · 1h 20m
country: United States
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.


Golden Gloves
1940 · 1h 6m
country: United States
An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.


Emergency Squad
1940 · 58m
country: United States
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.


Television Spy
1939 · 58m
country: United States
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.


Million Dollar Legs
1939 · 1h 5m
country: United States
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking boats, no money, and his own waistline stand in his way. Can they win the big race with State University?


The Hawk
1935 · 55m
country: United States
Jay Price's dying mother tells him his real name is Jack King and gives him a locket as proof. At the King ranch he loses the locket which is found by the foreman. Hoping to regain his proof, he hires on as a ranch hand knowing the foreman is the outlaw known as the Hawk. But trying to prevent the Hawk from rustling cattle, he is captured by the Hawk's men.