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Otto Preminger: Dana Andrews
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Preminger's pace had begun to slow. In 1963, he brought out The Cardinal, a long-winded but visually arresting film about a young priest's rise to power in the Catholic Church. Andrew Sarris, author of Confessions of a Cultist, noted that "Preminger is much better with image than with actors." Two years later, Preminger directed In Harm's Way. In A World on Film, critic Stanley Kauffmann called it "one more guts-and-glory naval saga complete with John Wayne as a crusty commander and an ensign son who finally does him proud." Kauffmann added that Preminger "has a reputation-deserved-for intelligence and cultivation, and another reputation-equally deserved -for shrewd exploitation of mass tastes."
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NEW YORK: From January 2 through the 17th, Film Forum hosts a retrospective of the films of the once-ever-present, still-controversial Otto Preminger. Things kick off, fittingly, with the classic noir Laura (double -billed with the Joan Crawford vehicle Daisy Kenyan), followed by a new restored print of the courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder and a matched double bill of thrillers capturing Preminger at his seamiest: Angel Face, with the aristocratic Jean Simmons eager to sully herself with a bemused Robert Mitchum, and Fallen Angel, with Dana Andrews itching for Linda Darnell.
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Throughout the five-month shoot on Forever Amber Preminger maintained a busy schedule, working regularly with writers on scripts for two upcoming projects, Daisy Kenyon and The Dark Wood. Preminger was finally relieved to be working on Daisy Kenyon. Joan Crawford starred in the title role as a magazine illustrator facing a romantic conflict: Will she choose a prominent, married lawyer or an unmarried neurotic veteran? Crawford was enthusiastic about the role, coming only two years after winning an Academy Award for Mildred Pierce. Preminger veteran Dana Andrews is the unfaithful lawyer whose unloved wife, played by Ruth Warrick, takes her anger out on her daughters and beats them hysterically. Henry Fonda is a grieving widower and war vet plagued by nightmares.
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