Edward Dmytryk - biography

“In art, the obvious is a sin.”

“Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.”

“The film’s dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.”

“I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.”

“I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.”

“With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.”

“I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.”

“I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.”

“Not a single person I named hadn’t already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn’t already on he blacklist.”

“The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.”

Edward Dmytryk directed the following films:
The Hawk (1935)
Million Dollar Legs (1939)
Television Spy (1939)
Emergency Squad (1940)
Golden Gloves (1940)
Mystery Sea Raider (1940)
Her First Romance (1940)
The Devil Commands (1941)
Under Age (1941)
Sweetheart of the Campus (1941)
The Blonde from Singapore (1941)
Secrets of the Lone Wolf (1941)
Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)
Counter-Espionage (1942)
Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942)
Hitler’s Children (1943)
The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)
Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Behind the Rising Sun (1943)
Tender Comrade (1943)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Back to Bataan (1945)
Cornered (1945)
Till the End of Time (1946)
So Well Remembered (1947)
Crossfire (1947)
Obsession (1949)
Give Us This Day (1949)
Mutiny (1952)
The Sniper (1952)
Eight Iron Men (1952)
Three Lives (1953)
The Juggler (1953)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Broken Lance (1954)
The End of the Affair (1955)
Soldier of Fortune (1955)
The Left Hand of God (1955)
Bing Presents Oreste (1956)
The Mountain (1956)
Raintree County (1957)
The Young Lions (1958)
Warlock (1959)
The Blue Angel (1959)
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
The Reluctant Saint (1962)
The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Where Love Has Gone (1964)
Mirage (1965)
Alvarez Kelly (1966)
Lo Sbarco di Anzio (1968)
Shalako (1968)
Bluebeard (1972)
The ’Human’ Factor (1975)
He Is My Brother (1976)
Not Only Strangers (1979)


Edward Dmytryk contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Tender Comrade (1943)
Bing Presents Oreste (1956)
Alvarez Kelly (1966)
Bluebeard (1972)
He Is My Brother (1976)