This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the...
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1990
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The Man You Loved to Hate is a perfunctory but interesting documentary of the life and work of Erich von Stroheim. Through...
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1979
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Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic...
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1955
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Erich von Stroheim dominates the proceedings in the French L'Envers du Paradis (Other Side of Paradise) Set in a tiny village...
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O'Hara
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1954
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Though his services as a director were no longer required in the 1950s, Erich Von Stroheim kept busy as an actor, especially...
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1953
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Also known as Alraune and Mandrake, The Unnatural is a kinky science fiction film, elevated by the bravura performance of...
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Ten Brinken
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1952
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Released in the U.S. in 1950, Mask of Korea has the sort of title that suggests a tie-in with the then-raging Korean...
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Werner Krali
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1950
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom....
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Max Von Mayerling
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1950
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Eric
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1949
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1948
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1948
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Consigned to "B" pictures in Hollywood, Erich Von Stroheim fared rather better in France: his 1946 vehicle La Foire aux...
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1946
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Erich Von Stroheim is the principal attraction of the French melodrama On Ne Meurt pas Comme Ca. Von Stroheim is ideally cast...
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1946
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Erich Von Stroheim's bravura performance is easily the most entertaining aspect of The Mask of Diijon, though it should be...
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Diijon
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1946
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This ambitious independent production was packaged by producer W. Lee Wilder, brother of Billy Wilder, and distributed by...
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1945
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This Republic programmer is based on a true story, though its plot complications are anything but founded in reality. Set in...
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1945
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Lady and the Monster was the first film version of the classic Curt Siodmak sci-fi/horror tale Donovan's Brain. The plot...
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1944
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Leonard Maltin once observed that Storm Over Lisbon is what Casablanca would have looked like had it been produced by...
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Deresco
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1944
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The oft-filmed story of the WW I espionage agent known as "Fraulein Doktor" was given another go-round in the British Under...
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1943
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In this bit of WWII propaganda (designed to boost support of America's alliance with Russia against Germany), Kolya...
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1943
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Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel...
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Field Marshal Rommel
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1943
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The Nazis are clearly the villains in So Ends Our Night, but since the film was made before America's entry into World War...
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1941
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Actress/ballerina Vera Zorina stars as a phony countess, working in cahoots with two international con artists...
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1940
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It's always fun to watch Erich Von Stroheim in a leading role, even in such hurry-scurry nonsense as Rappel Immediat...
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Captin Stanley
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1939
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1939
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In this dark drama, the mysterious disappearance of several Parisian women cause the police to hire the roommate of the...
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Pears
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1939
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1939
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Prof. Winckler
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1939
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In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the...
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1939
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La Tempete (The Tempest) is based loosely on characters created by Honore de Balzac. In one of the strangest roles of his...
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1939
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Werner von Krale
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1939
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Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (Missing from St. Agil) would be worth watching if only for the chop-licking performance by Erich...
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Walter, prof d'anglais
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1938
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In this espionage drama, the leader of a spy ring gets a dancer involved in his schemes. The dancer is the mistress of a...
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Marson
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1938
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This drama is set in the Balkans just before WW II erupts and chronicles the marriage of a Serbian soldier to an Austrian...
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Gen. Simovic
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1938
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Screen Story
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1937
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Von Ludow
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1937
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1937
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Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Grande...
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Von Rauffenstein
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1937
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1937
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Falsely convicted Lionel Barrymore escapes from Devil's Island with fellow prisoner H.B. Walthall. A brilliant scientist,...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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One of several Liberty productions picked up for release by Republic, The Crime of Dr. Crespi is a modern-dress adaptation of...
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Dr. Crespi
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1935
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Down on his luck in 1934, Erich Von Stroheim accepted a leading role in the Chesterfield Pictures cheapie Fugitive Road,...
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Hauptmann Oswald Von Traunsee
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1934
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Often written off as just another Poverty Row effort featuring a fallen-from-grace Erich Von Stroheim, Mascot Pictures'...
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Wolters
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1934
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A minor entry from small-scale Progressive Pictures, Under Secret Orders starred the rather pallid Donald Dillaway as Henry...
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1933
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Love turns into an unhealthy obsession in this offbeat drama. Millie (Zasu Pitts) and Peggy (Boots Mallory) are two friends...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1933
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Arthur von Furst
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1932
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This complex '30s film is based upon a play by Pirandello which involved a hapless amnesiac. In As You Desire Me, the...
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Carl Salter
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1932
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The old bromide about joining the Foreign Legion to "forget," so often parodied by such comedians as Laurel and Hardy, was...
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Victor Sangrito
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1931
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First filmed in 1926, the venerable stage melodrama Three Faces East was remade as a talkie in 1930. Set during WWI, most of...
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Valdar
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1930
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Great Gabbo
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1929
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Though filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim's notorious profligacy had made him virtually unhirable in the US by 1929, screen-star...
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Art Director, Director, Screenwriter
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1929
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Having alienated virtually all the major Hollywood studios, filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim turned to independent entrepreneur...
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Art Director, Director, Screenwriter, Prince Nikki/Von Wildiebe-Rauffenburg
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1928
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This silent adaptation of Franz Lehar's famous operetta (in which precious little of the original story was retained) was a...
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Costume Designer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1925
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Director, Intertitle Writer, Producer, Production Designer, Screenwriter
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1924
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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Costume Designer, Director
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1923
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Actor/ writer/ director Erich Von Stroheim stars as a fraudulent count, living high on the hog in Monte Carlo. He supports...
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Director, Intertitle Writer, Screenwriter, Count Sergius Karamzin, Capt. of 3rd Hussars Imperial
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1922
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Made in between his two classics, Blind Husbands and Foolish Wives, this drama from director Erich von Stroheim centers on a...
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Art Director, Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1920
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Art Director, Director, Screenwriter, Lieutenant von Steuben
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1919
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On the heels of his masterpiece, Intolerance, which dramatized the futility of war born out of prejudice, director...
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A German Soldier
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1918
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Even though World War I had just reached its end, the war films kept coming. While The Heart of Humanity had a similar plot...
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1918
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By the time this picture was released, World War I was nearly over and the public was tired of the same old spy stories. This...
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1918
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First Assistant Director
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1917
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Daydreaming clerk Douglas Fairbanks discovers that he's of royal blood. In fact, if his information is correct, he's next in...
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1917
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Hero Gerald Ackland (Edward Earle) is not inclined to wait for America's entry into WWI. Long before his own country's...
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1917
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Art Director
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1917
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Norma Talmadge plays a pretty young secretary who must dress dowdily to avoid the licentious overtures of her male employers....
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1916
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First Assistant Director
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1916
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In this lesser Mary Pickford vehicle -- her first picture under the Artcraft banner -- the star plays Radha, an English girl...
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First Assistant Director
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1916
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1915
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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This the second full-length film version of Henrik Ibsen's stage tragedy Ghosts (the first was a Russian production directed...
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1915
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