Word: dmytryk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palm Springs. The sets and scenery (some of it filmed in Bavaria) suggest a Victor Herbert operetta rather than German bourgeois society. And the hardbitten, even morbid truths hammered home in the German version become soft and mawkish half-truths under the hand of Hollywood's Edward Dmytryk, who has consented to a happy ending that makes the teacher's tragedy merely pathetic...
...Edward Dmytryk maintains the integrity of Irwin Shaw's World War II novel--tracing the lives of a young German officer and two American G.I.'s (via a number of transcontinental camera switches) to their final encounter on the French countryside...
...more often to the epic height of its adage and its argument. Epic is plainly what Moviemaker Lichtman hoped to achieve-a sort of Europead elaborated out of the decisive events and determining attitudes of World War II. He missed the mark, but with the assistance of Director Edward Dmytryk and Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt. he has produced a broad and swiftly flowing film which carries on its narrative stream two performances-by Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift -of unusually deep draft...
Unhappily, the climactic court-martial scene leaves something to be desired. The buildup is too rapid, the characters are too little drawn out by the suction of suspense that is too soon released. Nevertheless, the scene is charged with drama, effectively paced by Director Edward (The Juggler) Dmytryk, and well played. The massive closeup of Queeg in disintegration is almost as pitiful and terrifying as it was meant...
...fears. As Yael, the sabra (native-born Israeli) girl who comes to love the juggler and helps set him on the road to recovery, Italian Actress Milly Vitale is a plumply pretty figure dressed in shorts and lugging a rifle. The lesser characters are sharply realized and Director Edward Dmytryk ably blends harsh action and atmospheric mood. In great, racking closeups, his camera brutally captures the juggler's claustrophobic concentration-camp memories. It also "makes a lyrical sequence out of an Israeli folk dance around a kibbutz campfire...