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Edward Dmytrykwas a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire (1947).
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Edward Dmytrykwas a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfirein their investigations during the McCarthy-era Red Scare. They all served time in prison for contempt of Congress. In 1951, however, Dmytryk testified to the HUAC and named individuals, including Arnold Manoff, whose careers were then destroyed for many years, to rehabilitate his own career. First hired again by independent producer Stanley Kramer in 1952, Dmytryk is likely best known for directing The Caine Mutiny (1954), a critical and commercial success. The second-highest-grossing film of the year, it was nominated for Best Picture and several other awards at the 1955 Oscars. Dmytryk was nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.
10 Quotes by Edward Dmytryk
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The film’s dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
Edward DmytrykAmerican film director (1908-1999)
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With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
Edward DmytrykAmerican film director (1908-1999)
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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.
Edward DmytrykAmerican film director (1908-1999)
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I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.
Edward DmytrykAmerican film director (1908-1999)
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In art, the obvious is a sin.
Edward DmytrykAmerican film director (1908-1999)
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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.
Edward DmytrykAmerican film director (1908-1999)
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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.
Edward DmytrykAmerican film director (1908-1999)
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Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
Edward DmytrykAmerican film director (1908-1999)
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The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.
Edward DmytrykAmerican film director (1908-1999)
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Not a single person I named hadn’t already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn’t already on he blacklist.
Edward DmytrykAmerican film director (1908-1999)