The Caine Mutiny
1954
Search results
Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire (1947).
Feb 7, 2020 · In “The Juggler” Douglas plays Hans Muller a Jewish Munich native who, before the war had been a celebrated and beloved juggler but whose concentration camp experience had emotionally crippled...
May 6, 2020 · Two of the early victims were “Crossfire” producer Adrian Scott and director Edward Dmytryk, members of the Hollywood 10.
- Alvah Bessie (1904 – 1985) The son of a New York businessman, Bessie joined Eugene O’Neill’s Provincetown Players as an actor after graduating from Columbia University.
- Herbert J. Biberman (1900 – 1971) Biberman began his career at age 28, directing plays and helping run the Theatre Guild in New York City. In 1935, he moved to Hollywood, where he graduated from dialogue director to writer to director of modest films, including Meet Nero Wolfe (1936), King of Chinatown (1939) and The Master Race (1944), an anti-Nazi film.
- Lester Cole (1904 – 1985) The child of Polish immigrants, Cole (ne Cohn) owed his political leanings to his Marxist father, who was a garment union organizer in New York City.
- Edward Dmytryk (1908 – 1999) Born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Dmytryk was the second of four sons of Ukrainian immigrants. His father, a severe disciplinarian who bounced between jobs as truck driver, smelter worker and motorman, moved his family to San Francisco and then to Los Angeles.
After World War II, German Hans Müller is one of a shipload of Jewish refugees who disembark at Haifa in 1949 and are placed in a refugee camp. Like many other concentration camp survivors, Hans has psychological problems, including survivor guilt.
Sep 13, 2020 · This article takes an in-depth look at an earlier American movie about Israel, Edward Dmytryk’s The Juggler, released in 1953. The Juggler was Hollywood’s first film set and shot on location in modern Israel.
- Giora Goodman, Tony Shaw
- 2021
The taut adaptation of Richard Brooks’s novel The Brick Foxhole featured Ryan as a violent bully whose impulsive murder of a Jewish civilian sets off a manhunt. Mitchum and Robert Young also starred in the drama, which received an Academy Award nomination for best picture.
