Movies: Edward Dmytryk

Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wa...

During the World War II in Italy, Sergeant Joe Mooney is leading his small squad on the front-lines but is ordered to avoid rescuing a soldier trapped in no man's land....

The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing....

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career....

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment an...

A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the law makes him an easy target for the police. When the body disappears, Blackie must find it to prove hi...

At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get a letter in some sport to win back his girl Susie; he schemes to revive crew boat racing. Sinking bo...

Two football players fight over the same girl....

Faye Dunaway hosts a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood star-making machine....

Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have been feuding for years over the apparent failure of the Carys' business which was caused by the now-d...

Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suici...

Documentary following the hearings held by the House Un-American Activities Committee of the '40s and '50s....

A brief look at The Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters and directors charged with contempt of court after challenging the House Un-American Activities Committee and their controversial and self-incriminatory questions during the red scare. With ...

To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister....

A bookish co-ed is pranked into attending a formal dance, but her stepsister refuses to help her prepare. With support from a cook and her cousin, she gets a dress, but after learning it’s a joke, she initially declines—until a charming opera star of...

A story about a scientist who is obsessed with communicating with the dead....

Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation....

Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small-town boy to one of Hollywood and television's most enduring stars....

A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau....

Two shipwrecked boys become the focal point of a religious power struggle....