Edward Dmytryk 1908-1999

dward Dmytryk was a messenger boy at Paramount in the mid 1920s, became an editor in the 1930s and began directing in 1935.

   By the mid 40s, he had prominent credits that included The Devil Commands (1941), Hitler's Children (1943), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Cornered (1945) and Crossfire (1947), which was one of the first Hollywood films to confront anti-Semitism.

   In 1948, Dmytryk became one of the Hollywood Ten when he was accused of having ties to the communist party. He was sentenced to a year in prison for contempt of Congress.

   Even after his release, Dymtryk was still blacklisted in the United States so he went to England to resume his directing career.

   In 1951, he returned to the U.S. and appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee again, this time as a ‘friendly witness.’ As a result, his name was dropped from the blacklist and he resumed his U.S. career and went on to direct four films for producer Stanley Kramer.

   Dmytryk continued to make prominent films in the 1950s, including the westerns Broken Lance (1954), Warlock (1959) and the World War II drama The Young Lions (1958).

Other works include:

• Rugglers of Red Gap (1935) Video/C 999:765

• Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)

• Prison Farm (1938)

• Emergency Squad (1939)

• Golden Gloves (1939)

• Television Spy (1939)

• Her First Romance (1940)

• Mystery Sea Raider (1940)

• The Blonde form Singapore (1941)

• The Devil Commands (1941)

• Secrets of the Lone Wolf (1941)

• Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)

• Under Age (1941)

• Confession of Boston Blackie (1942)

• Counter-Espionage (1942)

• Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942)

• Behind the Rising Sun (1943)

• Captive Wild Woman (1943)

• The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)

• Hitler's Children (1943)

• Tender Comrade (1943)

• Murder My Sweet (1944) Video/C 999:548

• Cornered (1945)

• Back to Bataan (1945)DVD 2676

• Till the End of Time (1946)

• Crossfire (1947) Video/C 999:1027

• So Well Remembered (1947)

• Give us this Day (1949)

• Obsession (1949)

• Mutiny (1951)

• The Sniper (1952)

• Eight Iron Men (1952)

• The Juggler (1953)

• The Caine Mutiny (1954) Video/C 999:732

• End of the Affair (1954)

• Broken Lance (1954)

• Soldier of Fortune (1955)

• The Left Hand of God (1955)

• The Mountain (1956)

• Raintree Country (1957)

• The Young Lions (1958)

• Warlock (1959)

• The Blue Angel (1959)

• Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

• The Reluctant Saint (1962)

• The Carpetbaggers (1963)

• Where Love Has Gone (1964)

• Mirage (1965)

• Alvarez Kelly (1966)

• Shalako (1968)

• The Battle for Anzi (1968)

• Barbe-Bleue (1972)

• The Human Factor (1975)

• The Front (1976) Video/C 999:806

• Guilty by Suspicion (1991)