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...where Nick Adams is eating his supper. The two men in the overly tight black overcoats come in looking for the Swede. From then on, for the next five or six minutes it is straight Hemingway. Except for editing out a reference to the cook as "nigger," Director Robert Siodmak plays Hemingway's tough, tight little story straight and to the letter...
...vaudeville phrase, "hard to follow," meaning that it is difficult to please the audience when your act follows the star attraction, can be applied to Hollywood's expansion of the story. Hemingway is very "hard to follow." That Producer Mark Hellinger and Siodmak manage to do as well as they have is sufficient tribute to their skill. Employing no big name actors, they spin out a tautly wound picture which is very tough without the meaningless piling up of horror on horror that has plagued such productions as "The Big Sleep." Starting with the fact of the Swede's murder...
...Most of The Dark Mirror's high surface polish can be attributed to 1) oldtime Satevepost Fictioneer Nunnally Johnson, who produced and wrote the screenplay, and 2) Director Robert Siodmak, who makes a fairly regular habit of getting his name associated with slick first-rate thrillers (The Spiral Staircase, The Killers...
...Siodmak is no lover of heavy horror, but the West Coast has him typed. He is now regarded with considerable awe by the Hollywood oracles as "the new master of suspense." His next picture: a psycho-thriller currently called The Dark Mirror, with Olivia De Havilland and Lew Ayres...
Smart, balding, 45-year-old Cinema-director Siodmak is rapidly becoming Hollywood's top horror man. He looks, talks and acts like a European import, but was actually born in Shelby County, Tenn. Taken to Europe by his parents when he was an infant, he returned to the U.S. in 1939 as a veteran director of German and French films-mostly comedies and musicals-which starred such notables as Emil Jannings, Maurice Chevalier, Harry Baur. But West Coast studios weren't interested. The break came a couple of years ago when he made Phantom Lady with Producer Joan...