Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
- IMDb link: 0102707
- IMDb rating: 7 (115 votes) Search
- Genres: Biography, Documentary
- Director: Valerie A. Robins, Burgess Meredith
- Cast: Dorothy Adams, Judith Anderson, Dana Andrews and others
- Release date: 28 Oct 1991
- Release year: 1991
- Runtime: 123 minutes
- Country: Austria, United States
- Keywords: vienna austria, censorship, reference to edward r. murrow, reference to darryl f. zanuck, blackballing, austrian american, shaven head, immigrant, anti nazi, statue of liberty
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The life and films of iconic producer. director, and actor Otto Preminger are depicted through clips from his films and interviews with co-workers.
Burgess Meredith narrates this exhaustive documentary of filmmaker Otto Preminger, an iconic producer, director, and actor, whose career spanned the Golden Age in Hollywood in the 40s to the international movie scene of the 70s. Scenes from classic films like "Laura," Anatomy of a Murder," "Exodus," and "Advise and Consent" are shown along with such co-workers as Saul Bass, Vincent Price, Deborah Kerr, Michael Caine, Frank Sinatra, and James Stewart. Over a long career Preminger managed to maintain his artistic integrity as well as push the limits of censorship and the Hollywood Backlist.
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