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Otto Preminger: Movies
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All of Otto Preminger’s motion pictures reflect the style of a highly disciplined, but artistic auteur. The supple camera movement, his long continuous takes without cut (Preminger termed a cut as an “interruption”), the disciplined performance of his actors and his astute attention to detailed composition.
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Otto explained to his father that a career in theater was not just a ploy to excuse himself from school. This was a way of life, and it was the only one he wanted. In order to obtain his father's full blessing, Otto finished school and completed the study of law at the University of Vienna. Otto juggled a commitment to the University and his new position as a Reinhardt apprentice. The two developed a mentor and protege relationship, becoming both a confidant and teacher. When the theater opened, on April 1, 1924, Otto appeared as a furniture mover in Reinhardt's comedia staging of Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters.
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Preminger, with his fine legal eye, deftly sorts the issues in this intelligent, shapely 1962 adaptation of Allen Drury’s overstuffed novel. Preminger moves among a number of Washington stories—the nomination of a secretary of state (Henry Fonda), the blackmailing of a young senator (Don Murray), the vanquishing of a southern demagogue (Charles Laughton)—with impeccable grace, balancing the plot strands just as he balances his Panavision frames. With Walter Pidgeon, Lew Ayres, Burgess Meredith, Gene Tierney, Franchot Tone, and Will Geer. 139 min. (DK) Thu 11/15, 7:20 PM.
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Preminger rarely spoke like a man driven to bring formal or expressive pleasure to moviegoers or even to himself. He spoke of daring subjects, of projects. By the early fifties, he was working independently, producing as well as directing his own pictures—two functions that he saw as continuous. Before shooting, he shaped the script with his writers, and, on the set, he practiced a ruthless economy, finishing his pictures on time and on budget. He then delivered much of the publicity himself. Preminger was a master of high-minded ballyhoo—the taboo-breaking story, the battle with obtuse censors, the overflowing press banquet, the chartered plane to Cannes for a screening (those were the days).
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Preminger ... acted in a few movies; his most memorable role is that of the warden of a German POW camp in Stalag 17. In the 1960s Batman television series, Preminger was the second of three actors who played Mr. Freeze, in the two-parter "Green Ice/Deep Freeze." Adam West, who portrayed Batman, remembers Preminger as rude and unpleasant. Ingo Preminger, who produced the 1970 M*A*S*H movie, was Otto Preminger's youger brother.
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Preminger liked to play at star-maker, though his protégés often fell flat. It speaks to his loyalty... that they (and anyone else who withstood his punishing on-set mood swings) were often given second or third chances in his movies long after their initial career "heat" had cooled.
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