Word: dmytryk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the story is taken from several police cases on incidents that occurred recently in New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. Director Edward Dmytryk land his point in San Francisco...
...final scene is a masterpiece on celluloid. The temptation to tell all the final few minutes was over-come by Dmytryk, who successfully poses a delicate question in high drama. See it. Perhaps you'll push for new mental hospitals to take care or the pervert next door. At any rate you'll shy from crowded streets for some time to come...
Like earlier witnesses, Dmytryk was sure that the party backers had never really gotten within shooting distance of their main goal. They managed to get enough card carriers on the board of the Screen Writers' Guild to control it for a time, and they set off the studio strike of 1945. But no Red ever got on the board of the Screen Directors' Guild (he was one who tried). Said Dmytryk: "There was never effective control over a major studio executive or at any time effective control over the content of films...
...party did collect plenty of cash and names. "I think," said Dmytryk, "a great deal of money was taken out of Hollywood, particularly during the love feast during the war." And, said Dmytryk, there were plenty of big names in the party: Writer John Howard Lawson (another member of the "unfriendly ten," whom Dmytryk described as onetime "high lama of the party"), Directors Frank (College Holiday) Tuttle, Jules (The Naked City) Dassin, and Michael (Cyrano de Bergerac) Gordon...
...Dmytryk finally left the party when he was disciplined for cutting "undramatic" anti-fascist speeches from Cornered. He had refused to answer the committee's questions in 1947, he said, because it seemed a matter of civil rights. The Korean war made him doubt the sincerity of the Communist peace propaganda; the latest round of spy trials decided him. Said Dmytryk with the surprised air of a man discovering sin for the first time: "This is treason and it means the party is committing treason. For this reason, I am willing to talk today...