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Crossfire is a 1947 American film noir drama film starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan which deals with the theme of antisemitism, [5] [6] as did that year's Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Gentleman's Agreement.
Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire (1947).
However, his next film made with Joan Bennett, The Woman on the Beach (1947) directed by Jean Renoir, lost money. [14] [15] Ryan's breakthrough role was as an anti-Semitic killer in the Dmytryk-directed film noir Crossfire (1947), co-starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, and Gloria Grahame.
Levene's best known film noir credits include his performance as Samuels, the murdered GI, in Crossfire (1947) and as Lieutenant Lubinsky in The Killers (1946). [39] The Killers features the movie debut of Burt Lancaster , who just a year prior was professionally credited as Burton Lancaster when Levene helped the former circus acrobat land a ...
During the 1940s, he was also cast in the film noirs Undercurrent (1946), Crossfire (1947), Out of the Past (1947) and The Big Steal (1949). Mitchum was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a world-weary soldier in the 1945 film The Story of G.I. Joe , which received critical acclaim and was a commercial ...
John Paxton (May 21, 1911 – January 5, 1985) was an American screenwriter.. Some of his films include Murder, My Sweet in 1944, Cornered in 1945, Crossfire in 1947 (an adaptation of the controversial novel The Brick Foxhole that earned him his only Oscar nomination).
In 1947, the U.N. officially embraced such a solution, and the Jewish community of Palestine declared the independence of the State of Israel in May 1948. ... professor of history at Ohio State ...
Richard Brooks (born Reuben Sax; May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and film producer.Nominated for eight Academy Awards in his career, he was best known for Blackboard Jungle (1955), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960; for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), In Cold Blood (1967) and Looking for Mr ...