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Preminger’s features fantastic acting and brilliant writing. So great in fact, the two hour courtroom drama seems much shorter. Home Theater Forum’s Matt Hough reviewed the Blu-ray release and had these thoughts: Details come blazingly to the fore in...
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As Heesters was never accused of being a Nazi propagandist, the Allies allowed him to perform after the war and he adapted easily to the postwar German and Austrian cultural scene. In 1953 he appeared in Otto Preminger’s Die Jungfrau auf Dem Dach, the...
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Rowlands from 1962 until his death in 1989. Ben Gazzara was born August 28, 1930 in New York City, the son of Sicilian immigrants. After studies at The Actor's Studio, Gazzara made a name for himself on Broadway in the original productions of Cat On a...
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What do we know about Laura, when Otto Preminger’s classic 1944 thriller opens? Well, she’s beautiful, she’s much-adored – and she’s dead. Brutally murdered. Which, as noir starting points go, is pretty good. Then there’s the script: literate and...
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He had just been in Splendor In The Grass. He was a huge, big star and [we had] a wonderful director named Robert Rossen who did All The King’s Men, The Hustler… Jean Seberg was in the movie, and she was quite the top of the game at the time. She had...
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What do we know about Laura, when Otto Preminger’s classic 1944 thriller opens? Well, she’s beautiful, she’s much-adored – and she’s dead. Brutally murdered. Which, as noir starting points go, is pretty good. Then there’s the script: literate and...
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Even Jocko’s best friend (Pat Hingle) can spot the malignancy: “You’re a card, all right. You’re the ace of spades.” A template for Gazzara’s career, The Strange One received only a limited release. But Otto Preminger saw it, and cast Gazzara in the...
About Otto Preminger
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Otto Ludwig Preminger (December 5, 1906 – April 23, 1986) was an Austrian-born film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura (1944). In the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high-profile adaptations of... Full Article
