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Robert Siodmak. Highest Rated: 100% The Killers (1946) Lowest Rated: 25% Custer of the West (1968) Birthday: Aug 8, 1900. Birthplace: Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Master craftsman of suspense and ...
Robert Siodmak est né dans une famille d'origine juive polonaise à Memphis (Tennessee, États-Unis) en 1900 (comme il le précise à Heiner Gautschy dans l'émission LINK, le 13 avril 1971 [2]). Ses parents s'établissent en Allemagne lorsqu'il a 1 an. Il travaille en Allemagne comme metteur en scène et banquier avant de devenir scénariste pour le réalisateur Curtis Bernhardt en 1925.
Robert Siodmak. Robert Siodmak ( Dresde, Alemania, 8 de agosto de 1900 - Locarno, Suiza, 10 de marzo de 1973) fue un director de cine de origen alemán, que destacó en los Estados Unidos desde 1940, tras una intensa etapa europea. Es conocido por sus películas thriller y de cine negro, como La escalera de caracol ( The Spiral Staircase, 1946 ...
Director Robert Siodmak Stars Deanna Durbin Gene Kelly Richard Whorf. 5. Cry of the City. 1948 1h 35m Approved. 7.2 (3.7K) Rate. Police Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome. Director Robert Siodmak Stars Victor Mature Richard Conte Fred Clark.
Jul 6, 2015 · The Killers (1946) is exemplary film noir from Robert Siodmak, who, on the strength of three films—this, Phantom Lady (1944), and Criss Cross (1949)—stands beside his fellow European exiles Fritz Lang and Otto Preminger as one of noir’s crucial directors. The film is as nested with weird resonances as it is glamorous with obvious pleasures: Ava Gardner as lush and irresistible as a femme ...
He was established as a director in Germany, but the rise of the Nazi Party forced him into exile in Paris, where he continued making movies. He barely made it out of France ahead of the German occupation in 1940. After arriving in Hollywood, Siodmak was put to work in B-movies such as West Point Widow. In 1943, he directed Son of Dracula, the ...
Robert Siodmak. “Dynamic American director who trained in France and Germany and developed a masterly technique with powerful suspense melodramas such as The Spiral Staircase (1945), and crime thrillers such as The Killers (1946), Cry of the City and Criss Cross (1949).”. - The International Encyclopedia of Film, 1972.
