Edward Dmytryk was the driving force behind some of Hollywoods greatest films, especially in the film-noir genre. Dmytryks work on Crossfire (1947) earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Director. He is also known for such films as Murder, My Sweet (1945), The Caine Mutiny (1954), Raintree County (1957), The Young Lions (1958), and A Walk on the Wild Side (1962). Both Crossfire and The Caine Mutiny were nominated for Academy Awards as Best Picture.
"Despite the usual tendency to lump the Hollywood Ten into one
amorphous bluster, film director Dmytryk's compelling memoir
vividly particularizes his experi-ence as a member of that group...
Some will insist he cynically exploited others to get off the
blacklist, but Dmytryk's forceful explanation of his controversial
de-cision to name names is convincing."--"Choice"
"This is a book written from the inside of a political hurricane
made up of compromises and deceit in which the author, despite his
idealistic impulses, managed to find himself. Dmytryk's effort to
fight his way out of blacklisting and back to active participation
in the world of film-making is dramatically but appropriately
presented."--Michael Bliss, author of "What Goes Around Comes
Around: The Films of Jonathan Demme "and "Justified Lives: Morality
and Narrative in the Films of Sam Peckinpah"
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