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...rear end of the Motion Picture Writers' Guild, saying that it was "controlled by Communists." As for the Screen Directors' Guild, of which he is a member, Wood said that it had a strong pro-Communist bloc, composed of Directors John Cromwell, Frank Tuttle, Edward Dmytryk and Irving Pichel...
...movie so generally well made. Sample: the sergeant and a suspect, hiding out from the law in an all-night movie house talk so loudly that they destroy the suspense. But most of Crossfire is a first-rate thriller, notably well written (by John Paxton) and directed (by Edward Dmytryk). Its chief weakness concerns its main theme...
Confusion is the keynote of a plot that includes larceny, blackmail, multiple murder, and the whodunit show's inevitable quota of hardboiled--romance. Director Eduard Dmytryk has handled this turbulent story, with its emphasis on strangulation, cudgeling and other more ingenious forms of violence, with good taste extraordinary for Hollywood...
...that moment President Schaefer was ousted in one of RKO's then-frequent studio shuffles, and Golden had to start from scratch with pro tem President Ned Depinet. Mr. Depinet assigned an obscure script writer, Emmet Lavery, an equally obscure director, Edward Dmytryk, to make Hitler's Children, and the picture went into production with RKO's and Golden's money in partnership. After two days' shooting Golden was informed that the Guaranty Trust had decided not to make the loan after all: the war might end and leave the bank high & dry. "What," screamed...