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Perhaps the most purely successful adaptation of any Ernest Hemingway work, this Robert Siodmak-directed noir brings Hemingway’s short story of the same name to the screen, then expands beyond ...
To be fair, it's not easy to see every fabulous classic film without some guidance, which is where this list will come in handy for anyone who is interested in expanding their viewing horizons. From ...
The Spiral Staircase (RKO-Radio), a murder mystery, knowingly paced by Director Robert Siodmak and shrewdly acted by an expert cast, including Ethel Barrymore, is choice, eerie entertainment.Miss ...
Noir fans know the gangly, rubbery-faced actor for his work with, among others, Fritz Lang and Robert Siodmak. He went on to play a host of cowpokes on television Westerns. Duryea is among the ...
And although the connections to Curt Siodmak’s original 1941 “The Wolf Man” are exceedingly thin, Whannell and co-writer Corbett Tuck wisely adhere to that film’s emotional core: The man ...
Leigh Whannell follows ‘The Invisible Man’ with another update on a classic from the Universal archives, unfolding in an isolated farmhouse in the Pacific Northwest.
A Curt Siodmak story about a mad scientist (played by Boris Karloff) with a Dr. Frankenstein-esque plan to craft a new body for his hunchbacked assistant forms the basis for this crossover, which ...
This is a perfect example of how intrusive thoughts work; the pink elephant experiment was first explored in Curt Siodmak’s 1947 science fiction novel City in the Sky.
Director Robert Siodmak has a noirish thriller for every taste: Traditionally hard-boiled, horror-adjacent, proto-feminist, gothic melodrama, and, yes, holiday melancholy.
Robert Siodmak, who fled the Nazis in both Germany and France before landing in Hollywood, was even more closely tied to noir, whether by artistic nature or by contractual pigeonholing.
From Dec. 11 to 19, a selection of 17 of his movies, many of them stories of obsession, desire and regret, will screen in “Robert Siodmak: Dark Visionary,” at New York’s Film at Lincoln Center.
Film at Lincoln Center Focuses on a German-Born Director, Robert Siodmak, Who Once Earned the Ire of Joseph Goebbels The organizers herald Siodmak’s ‘chameleonic sensibility,’ presumably referring to ...