Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex series of backstage intrigues and hostilities, the ...

The story goes that once, at a Los Angeles social gathering in the 1940s, Otto Preminger came across a group of Hungarian émigrés chatting in their native tongue. “This is Hollywood,” Preminger chided ...

Otto Preminger, perhaps the most publicly recognizable director of the 1950s after Alfred Hitchcock, has seen his reputation decline drastically since his death in 1986. Today he’s often unfairly ...

FRANKFURT — Otto Preminger, controversial Hollywood producer, is looking for a 15-yearold German girl to play one of the major roles in his forthcoming motion picture "Exodus." "She can be known or ...

Among the many high and low points in his five-decade career, director-producer Otto Preminger (1905–86) gave us a noir classic, Laura (1944), and the squarest head movie ever made, Skidoo (1968).