Movies by Edward Dmytryk
As a director:
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The Human Factor (1975)
Cast: George Kennedy, John Mills, Rita Tushingham …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
When terrorists kill his beloved family, NATO computer expert John Kinsdale (George Kennedy) fights back by using his technical know-how to track them down and make them pay. Trying their…
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Bluebeard (1972)
Cast: Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Sybil Danning …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Taking a lesson from the famous English king, Austrian aristocrat Baron von Sepper (Richard Burton) would rather dispose of his wives than divorce them -- a scheme that works well until wife…
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Shalako (1968)
Cast: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Hawkins …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
After a group of wealthy Europeans haplessly wanders onto an Apache reservation, inscrutable tracker Shalako (Sean Connery) makes a bold attempt to rescue them in this Western set in late…
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Anzio (1968)
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Robert Ryan …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
The bloody assault by Allied forces on the beaches of Anzio, Italy, and their four-month march into Rome is detailed in a joint American, Italian and Spanish production filmed largely in…
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Alvarez Kelly (1966)
Cast: William Holden, Richard Widmark
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Debonair Mexican cattle rancher Alvarez Kelly (William Holden) drives his herd near Richmond, Va., planning to sell the beef to the Union Army besieging the Confederates in the city. Trouble…
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Mirage (1965)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Gregory Peck stars as David Stillwell, an accountant who loses his memory and discovers that those who try to help him regain it keep turning up dead. As Stillwell fights to remember who he…
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Where Love Has Gone (1964)
Cast: Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Mike Connors …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Two distinct icons of 1960s femininity, Susan Hayward and Joey Heatherton, square off as mother and daughter in a steamy tale that mirrors actual events: the stabbing of actress Lana…
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The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Cast: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Robert Cummings …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
This 1964 blockbuster, based on Harold Robbins's best-selling novel and loosely based on Howard Hughes's life, chronicles the financial rise and moral descent of half-cocked…
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Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Dove (Laurence Harvey) is a drifter from Texas who sets out for New Orleans with striking fellow drifter Kitty (Jane Fonda) in tow. Upon arrival, he secures a job at a Mexican café owned…
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The Reluctant Saint (1962)
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Ricardo Montalban, Lea Padovani …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Maximilian Schell stars as Giuseppe Desa, a 17th-century Italian peasant who becomes a Franciscan friar after his mother pressures a hesitant abbot (Ricardo Montalban) to accept her son into…
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Warlock (1959)
Cast: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
The mining town of Warlock hires a gunfighter named Clay (Henry Fonda) and his sidekick (Anthony Quinn) to clean up the streets and restore order, but the townsfolk have second thoughts about…
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The Young Lions (1958)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
During the course of World War II, two American soldiers (Dean Martin and Montgomery Clift) work to fight anti-Semitism in a number of forms, and a Nazi officer (Marlon Brando) finds his…
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Raintree County (1957)
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
In this star-studded Civil War epic, spoiled Southern belle Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) lures pacifist abolitionist John Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) away from his high school sweetheart…
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The Mountain (1956)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
When his younger brother (Robert Wagner) announces his intentions to scale a treacherous mountain slope to reach the site of a recent plane crash, a retired guide (Spencer Tracy) reluctantly…
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The End of the Affair (1955)
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Sarah Miles (Deborah Kerr), the dutiful wife of a British civil servant (Peter Cushing), begins an adulterous affair with neighbor Maurice Bendrix (Van Johnson) during World War II. As war…
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Soldier of Fortune (1955)
Cast: Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Clark Gable risks his life to save a beautiful woman's husband in this adventure drama filmed largely on location in Hong Kong. When her photographer husband goes missing, Jane Hoyt…
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The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Fred MacMurray, Van Johnson …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Captain Queeg: madman or misunderstood taskmaster? That's the dilemma facing the first officer (Van Johnson) of the U.S.S. Caine when its stern new captain (Humphrey Bogart) drives the…
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Broken Lance (1954)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Rancher Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) rears his four sons with tough love in this Western that rings of Shakespeare's "King Lear." After years of living under their dad's rule, Ben…
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The Sniper (1952)
Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
In this tense noir thriller, a lonely man (Arthur Franz) experiences a psychotic break and begins targeting women for death, baffling Lt. Frank Kafka (Adolphe Menjou) -- the detective…
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Mutiny (1952)
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Rhys Williams, Mark Stevens …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
During the War of 1812, Capt. Jim Marshall (Mark Stevens) faces a mutiny from crew members loyal to Britain. Led by former British captain Ben Waldridge (Patric Knowles), the mutineers plan…
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Christ in Concrete (1949)
Cast: Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Blacklisted director Edward Dmytryk adapted this affecting neorealist movie from the 1939 novel by Pietro Di Donato. The lives of Italian-American immigrants struggling to find work in the…
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Crossfire (1947)
Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Wrapped around a taut whodunit, this groundbreaking, Oscar-nominated film from director Edward Dmytryk explores the topic of anti-Semitism. A jaded homicide detective (Robert Young) must get…
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Back to Bataan (1945)
Cast: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
After the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese in the early months of World War II, Col. Joe Madden (John Wayne) volunteers to stay behind and organize the Filipino resistance in…
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Cornered / Desperate (1945)
Cast: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Nina Vale …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk, Anthony Mann
In Cornered, a Canadian pilot (Dick Powell) returns to France after World War II to track down the Nazi collaborator who killed his wartime bride, and in Desperate, a truck driver and his…
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Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
Starring Dick Powell and Claire Trevor, this film noir captures the sharp wit and style of Raymond Chandler's novel &NFi;Farewell, My Lovely&NFi_;, about a gumshoe named Philip Marlowe…
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The Devil Commands (1941)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Anne Revere, Amanda Duff …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
A dedicated though slightly addled scientist (Boris Karloff) studies brain waves. After his wife dies in a car accident, a machine he's invented picks up her brain waves from beyond the…