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In 1951, Dmytryk testified to the HUAC and named individuals, including Arnold Manoff, whose careers were then destroyed for many years, to rehabilitate his own career. [1] First hired again by independent producer Stanley Kramer in 1952, Dmytryk is likely best known for directing The Caine Mutiny (1954), a critical and commercial success.
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His fate was further sealed in April 1951 when fellow director and Hollywood Ten member Edward Dmytryk named Berry as a Communist to the HUAC. [7] Berry was named again the following month by director Frank Tuttle. [8] [9] The cascade of events set in motion by the documentary caused Berry to be subpoenaed by the HUAC and to flee to France. [7]
Dmytryk had previously been blacklisted, and the success of the film helped revive his career. [11] The Caine Mutiny would be the first feature role in Robert Francis's short four-film Hollywood career, as he was killed when the private plane he was piloting crashed shortly after takeoff from Burbank Airport in California on July 31, 1955. [12]
Captive Wild Woman is a 1943 American horror film directed by Edward Dmytryk. [2] The film stars Evelyn Ankers , John Carradine , Milburn Stone , and features Acquanetta as Paula, the Ape Woman. The film involves a scientist, Dr. Sigmund Walters, whose experiments turn a female gorilla named Cheela into a human by injecting the ape with sex ...
In September 1950, Hollywood Ten member Edward Dmytryk announced that he had once been a Communist and was prepared to give evidence against others who had been as well. He was released early from jail. Following his 1951 HUAC appearance in which he described his past Party membership and named names, his directorial career recovered. [44]
Alvarez Kelly is a 1966 American Western film set in the American Civil War directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring William Holden and Richard Widmark. The picture was based on the historic Beefsteak Raid of September 1864 led by Confederate Major General Wade Hampton III.
In 1946, Mitchum appeared in Till the End of Time, Edward Dmytryk's box office hit about returning Marine veterans, with Dorothy McGuire and Guy Madison, [104] [105] before migrating to a genre that came to define his career and screen persona: film noir. [38]