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Edward L. Cahn (February 12, 1899 – August 25, 1963) was an American film director and editor.
Edward L. Cahn. Director: Born to Speed. Edward L. Cahn was an American second-feature director of Polish ancestry. His brother Philip Cahn worked in the industry as editor. Edward worked in films from 1917 as a production assistant.
Edward L. Cahn was a prolific director of B movies, some of them criminous. He was best known for his work on the Our Gang comedy shorts. He seems largely obscure in film history.
May 20, 2016 · Among this heavily European stable of directors was the American-born novice Edward L. Cahn, represented by three shockingly grim and startlingly good films. They form a kind of unholy triptych, three variations on the bottomless theme of American corruption and violence.
Oct 10, 2016 · The American director, Edward L. Cahn, was best-known, indeed notorious for his prolific B-movie output in the 1950s and ‘60s.
He is best known for directing Our Gang comedies from 1939-1943, and a long line of other short subjects and B-movies afterward. He is also known for directing the 1958 film It! The Terror from Beyond Space, that inspired the 1979 film Alien. He made a number of films for American International Pictures. His brother was film editor Philip Cahn.
Oct 6, 2021 · Sitting in his chair, waving his pipe, he came on like [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt with a cape. He was the first one who gave me a cold chill of what it must be like to be a has-been.–Charles B. Gr...
