In an attempt to boost his then-flagging career, comedian Buster Keaton starred in the 1935 French production Le Roi de...
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2004
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Director
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1969
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Opening with a montage depicting its subject's Civil War exploits, Custer of the West carries us across four years of...
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Director
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1968
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This 99-minute film constitutes the first half of Robert Siodmak's mammoth two-part epic Der Kampf um Rom (Fight for Rome)....
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Director
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1968
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Dr. Karl Sternau (Lex Barker) is a German doctor in Mexico who is on the side of the Mexicans fighting against Emperor...
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Director
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1965
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Director
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1965
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Kara Ben Nemai (Lex Barker) is a German adventurer who sets out to find the villainous Yellow Devil who has been terrorizing...
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Director
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1964
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Based on an actual escape from East to West Germany staged on January 28, 1962, this routine docudrama by director...
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Director
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1962
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This standard melodrama by director Robert Siodmak, active in Germany, France, and the U.S., is nuanced with shades of film...
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Director
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1961
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Mein Schulfreund has an ostensible anti-Nazi theme yet there are aspects of this wartime drama that seem ambivalent. At the...
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Director, Producer
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1960
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After spending most of the 1950s in Europe, writer/director Robert Siodmak filmed his only picture in England: The Rough and...
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Director
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1959
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Feeling hamstrung and confined by Hollywood, writer/director Robert Siodmak returned to Europe to make most of his latter-day...
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Director
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1959
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Writer/director Robert Siodmak based his German-filmed The Devil Strikes at Night on an actual case. Set during the last...
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Director, Producer
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1958
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Director
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1958
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Director
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1956
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Director
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1955
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In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert...
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Director
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1954
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Half affectionate parody and half enthusiastic tribute to the swashbuckling pirate epics of the 1930's and 40's, The Crimson...
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Director
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1952
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Produced by "March of Time" maven Louis de Rochemont, Whistle at Eaton Falls is docudrama concerning a labor dispute in a...
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Director
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1951
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The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime...
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Director
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1950
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No one is as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she's bad. Here Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who late one night shows up...
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Director
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1949
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Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His "great...
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Director
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1949
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Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home after a few years of knocking around the country following his divorce from...
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Director
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1948
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Director
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1948
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Adapted from a novel by Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind is a slow-moving costume drama enlivened by its stars. Servant girl...
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Director, Producer
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1947
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Director
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1946
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Director
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1946
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The wonderfully suspenseful psychological drama Spiral Staircase is the prototype of the "old dark house, lady in distress"...
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Director
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1946
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Fabric designer Harry Quincey (George Sanders) has the unhappy task of caring for his tiresome unmarried sisters, Lettie...
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Director
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1945
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Filmed some 18 months before its release, Conflict is one of two melodramas in which Humphrey Bogart self-consciously...
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Screen Story
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1945
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Engineer Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) is at a seedy midtown Manhattan bar early one evening, drowning his sorrows over a...
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Director
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1944
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Director
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1944
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On the eve of her wedding to Ramu (Jon Hall), the beautiful Tollea (Maria Montez) is spirited away from her tranquil South...
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Director
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1944
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Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story...
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Director
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1944
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Son of Dracula represents a felicitious creative collaboration between director Robert Siodmak and his screenwriter-brother...
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Director
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1943
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Mabel Paige, one of Hollywood's most beloved character actresses, was given her one-and-only starring role in this Republic...
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Director
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1943
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The innovative direction of Robert Siodmak lifts the inexpensive imitation-Hitchcock Fly By Night well above the ordinary....
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Director
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1942
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A most uncharacteristic assignment for director Robert Siodmak, My Heart Belongs to Daddy was scripted by F. Hugh Herbert, of...
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Director
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1942
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The Night Before the Divorce is when Lynn Thorndike (Lynn Bari) seeks out her ex-husband George (Joseph Allen Jr.), begging...
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Director
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1942
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In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from...
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Director
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1941
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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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Director
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1939
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Hatred was originally released in France in 1938 under the title Mollenard. Harry Baur stars as Captain Mollenard, skipper of...
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Director
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1938
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Although the title of this French melodrama translates as White Cargo, it has nothing to do with the steamy stage play of the...
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Director
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1937
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Director
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1936
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Also known as La Grande Refrain, Symphonie D'Amour was filmed in 1936 but wasn't released in America until a decade later....
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Director
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1936
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Director
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1936
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La Vie Parisienne is based on the 1866 operetta by Jacques Offenbach, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy. The story has been...
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Director
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1935
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Released abroad as The Slump is Over, this backstage comedy pokes gentle fun at the Depression-era French bourgeoisie....
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1934
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1933
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Director
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1933
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Though Lillian Harvey is the star of Quick, the title character is played by the versatile French character actor...
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Director
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1932
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Also known as Tempest and Storm of Passion, Stuerme der Leidenschaft was the first of Robert Siodmak's two directorial...
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Director
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1932
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Director
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1931
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The directorial career of Robert Siodmak continue to gain momentum with his third solo effort, Voruntersuchung (Inquest) When...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1931
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Robert Siodmak's second solo directorial effort was the breathless comedy-melodrama Der Mann, Der Seinen Moerder Sucht...
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Director
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1931
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Director
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1930
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An early experiment in neo-realist filmmaking, Menschen Am Sonntag is a low-budget drama about two men, a cab driver and a...
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Director
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1929
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