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Robert Siodmak
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Directed by Robert Siodmak, The Killers boasts a script by an uncredited John Huston and a great score by Miklos Rozsa (later mined for the theme for Dragnet). A box-office smash, the film played round-the-clock at New York's Winter Garden theater, where over 120,000 patrons saw the film in the first two weeks. While Siodmak was widely praised for his economical direction, most of the press and public focused their attention on the two new newcomers: Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner.
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Robert Siodmak directs this film, based on a story by Ernest Hemingway. Two professional killers (Charles McGraw & William Conrad) invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede" (Burt Lancaster), who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon (Edmond O'Brien) pursues the case against the orders of his boss, who considers it trivial. Weaving together threads of the Swede's life, Reardon uncovers a complex tale of treachery and crime, all linked with gorgeous, mysterious Kitty Collins (Ava Gardner). (Universal) (IMDb)
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Robert Siodmak is best known to English language audiences for the atmospheric noir thrillers he made during his ten-year sojourn in Hollywood from the early 1940s onwards. The best of these, such as The Spiral Staircase (1945) and The Killers (1946), are outstanding examples of the genre. They are ... exemplary of the connection between '40s American cinema and German “Expressionist” cinema of the '20s and early '30s that resulted from the presence in Hollywood of an expatriate generation of German filmmakers who had fled the Nazi regime.
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Synopsis: Filmed in 1936 as Mr. Flow, this Robert Siodmak production was based on a novel by Gaston Leroux. Set in summertime Paris, the labyrinthine plotline is set in motion by the title character, a gentlemRead More
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Am Tag des Reichstagsbrandes (27.2.1933) wird Robert Siodmaks Film Das brennende Geheimnis kurz nach der Uraufführung im Berliner Capitol durch Propagandaminister Goebbels verboten. Wenig später verläßt der jüdische Regisseur Deutschland und emigriert nach Frankreich, wo er u. a. mit Größen wie Louis Jouvet und Erich von Stroheim dreht. Nach dem deutschen Überfall auf Frankreich im Mai 1940 muss Siodmak erneut fliehen und geht in die Vereinigten Staaten, wo er in der Folgezeit zahlreiche Filmklassiker dreht, darunter: Unter Verdacht (mit Charles Laughton, 1944), Die Wendeltreppe (1945), Die Killer (1946), Der Schwarze Spiegel (1946), Der Rote Korsar (1952 mit Burt Lancaster).
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) Siodmak wrote the story for this Ray Harryhausen special effects spectacular in which aliens try to blow up the earth. They succeed, at least, in blowing up the White House (Independence Day, eat your heart out).
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