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Fred Zinnemann: Films
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Besides Clift and Brando, other Zinnemann discoveries included Pier Angeli and John Ericson, who co-starred in Teresa (1951), with Rod Steiger and Ralph Meeker debuting in secondary roles. And in Oklahoma! (1955), Zinnemann's version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, the wide screen format Todd-AO made its debut, as did the film's young star Shirley Jones.
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The Italian court found that Fred Zinnemann made a conscious artistic choice to film The Seventh Cross in black and white (Technicolor had been around for decades) and that the colorization of the film clearly harmed his artistic integrity. In addition to banning TV Internazionale from ever showing the colorized version again, the judge ordered the station to destroy all colorized copies of the film and pay damages.
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Description of Artwork:James Jones's novel, turned film by Fred Zinnemann, "From Here to Eternity," portray's the U.S. Army in Hawaii on the eve of World War II. The film is best known for it's scene including Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster embracing on a Hawaiian beach.
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In this view, and not without reason, Zinnemann is located within a perceived Tradition of Quality exemplified in Hollywood by George Stevens and William Wyler. Films which seemed to be impressed by their high-profile literary and theatrical pedigrees were famously described by Manny Farber as “white elephant art”, technically accomplished but fundamentally hollow spectacles, “films that do not actively use their visual register to produce meaning” (18).
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The complaint was filed in 1999 by his son Tim Zinnemann and the litigation was conducted by Arnold Lutzker, Washington DC, in coordination with Francesco Rampone and Maria L. Cuichini, Studio Legale Chiomenti, Rome, Italy. Tim Zinnemann charged that the airing of the altered version of the film damaged his father’s artistic honor and reputation. With its final ruling in favor of Zinnemann, the court sent a clear message that Italian law stands behind the rights of all film artists, regardless of nationality.
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Considering the duration of Zinnemann's career--over half a century--his film oeuvre is rather small: twenty-two features and a number of documentaries. Nonetheless, the number of Oscar-winning performances in Zinnemann's films has been disproportionately large.
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