Edgar G. Ulmer

Edgar G. Ulmer

출생 : 1904-09-17, Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]

사망 : 1972-09-30

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Edgar Georg Ulmer (September 17, 1904 – September 30, 1972) was an Austrian-American film director. He is best remembered for the movies The Black Cat (1934) and Detour (1945). These stylish and eccentric works have achieved cult status, whereas Ulmer's other films remain relatively unknown. The first feature he directed in North America, Damaged Lives (1933), was a low-budget exploitation film exposing the horrors of venereal disease. His next film, The Black Cat (1934), starring Béla Lugosi and Boris Karloff, was made for a major studio, Universal Pictures. Demonstrating the striking visual style that would be Ulmer's hallmark, the film was Universal's biggest hit of the season. Ulmer, however, had begun an affair with Shirley Beatrice Kassler, who had been married since 1933 to independent producer Max Alexander, nephew of Universal studio head Carl Laemmle. Kassler's divorce in 1936 and her marriage to Ulmer later the same year led to his being exiled from the major Hollywood studios. Ulmer was relegated to making B movies at Poverty Row production houses. His wife, now Shirley Ulmer, acted as script supervisor on nearly all of these films, and she wrote the screenplays for several. Their daughter, Arianne, appeared as an extra in several of his films. Consigned to the fringes of the U.S. motion picture industry, Ulmer specialized first in "ethnic films," notably in Ukrainian—Natalka Poltavka (1937), Cossacks in Exile (1939)—and Yiddish—The Light Ahead (1939), Americaner Shadchen (1940). The best-known of these ethnic films is the Yiddish Green Fields (1937), co-directed with Jacob Ben-Ami. Ulmer eventually found a niche making melodramas on tiny budgets and with often unpromising scripts and actors for Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), with Ulmer describing himself as "the Frank Capra of PRC". His PRC thriller Detour (1945) has won considerable acclaim as a prime example of low-budget film noir, and it was selected by the Library of Congress among the first group of 100 American films worthy of special preservation efforts. In 1947, Ulmer made Carnegie Hall with the help of conductor Fritz Reiner, godfather of the Ulmers' daughter, Arianné. The film features performances by many leading figures in classical music, including Reiner, Jascha Heifetz, Artur Rubinstein, Gregor Piatigorsky and Lily Pons. Ulmer did get a chance to direct two films with substantial budgets, The Strange Woman (1946) and Ruthless (1948). The former, featuring a strong performance by Hedy Lamarr, is regarded by critics as one of Ulmer's best. In 1951 he directed a low-budget science-fiction film with a noirish tone, The Man from Planet X. In 1964 he directed his last film, The Cavern, in Italy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edgar G. Ulmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Edgar G. Ulmer

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The Astrologer
Production Sound Mixer
Craig Alexander, a con-man "psychic" on the carnival circuit receives the opportunity to pilfer some legendary rubies in Kenya. His luck holds and he winds up the sole beneficiary of the ill-gotten wealth, which he parlays into an astrological broadcasting empire. But once he reaches the top, there's only one direction he can go...
The Cavern
Producer
Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?
The Cavern
Director
Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?
The World's Greatest Sinner
Cinematography
A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live forever. He ends up forming his own political party, "The Eternal Man" party. He begins to be referred to as "God". Then he starts having doubts about the eternalness of man. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
Journey Beneath the Desert
Set Designer
A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.
Journey Beneath the Desert
Director
A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.
Beyond the Time Barrier
Director
In 1960, a pilot testing an experimental rocket powered aircraft accidentally flies into the future and finds himself in a sealed city whose people suspect he is a spy from outside their walls, but who want to keep him to procreate with the ruler's daughter because the majority of the inhabitants are sterile.
The Amazing Transparent Man
Director
An ex-major forces a scientist to develop a invisibility formula, with which he plans to create an invisible army and sell it to the highest bidder. However there are side effects to the formula.
Hannibal
Director
A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.
The Naked Venus
Director
A young American painter and his French wife move with their small daughter to the US when the husband's father dies. His mother takes an instant dislike to the wife, and when she finds out that her daughter-in-law is a nudist who once posed naked for an artist, she declares her son's wife to be an unfit mother and sets out to break up the marriage--which may not be difficult to do, as the son is a weak-willed "mama's boy" who's terrified to stand up against his domineering mother.
Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle
Adaptation
After having been recently shipwrecked, a group of survivors begin dealing with both the reality of being stranded on a remote island as well as with feelings of alienation and isolation. Adapted from the novel by Johann Wyss, this was the pilot episode for a proposed television series co-produced by Edgar G. Ulmer and Louis Hayward. Filmed in Mexico in 1957 and bearing a 1958 copyright, Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle was not "released" until 2000, when it was included as an extra feature on the DVD version of Ulmer's The Pirates of Capri.
Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle
Producer
After having been recently shipwrecked, a group of survivors begin dealing with both the reality of being stranded on a remote island as well as with feelings of alienation and isolation. Adapted from the novel by Johann Wyss, this was the pilot episode for a proposed television series co-produced by Edgar G. Ulmer and Louis Hayward. Filmed in Mexico in 1957 and bearing a 1958 copyright, Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle was not "released" until 2000, when it was included as an extra feature on the DVD version of Ulmer's The Pirates of Capri.
Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle
Director
After having been recently shipwrecked, a group of survivors begin dealing with both the reality of being stranded on a remote island as well as with feelings of alienation and isolation. Adapted from the novel by Johann Wyss, this was the pilot episode for a proposed television series co-produced by Edgar G. Ulmer and Louis Hayward. Filmed in Mexico in 1957 and bearing a 1958 copyright, Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle was not "released" until 2000, when it was included as an extra feature on the DVD version of Ulmer's The Pirates of Capri.
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
Director
A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom is a ruthless killer.
The Perjured Farmer
Producer
The Perjured Farmer
Director
The Naked Dawn
Director
Santiago, a jolly modern bandito, has just lost his partner when he happens on the isolated farm of young Manuel and Maria Lopez...
Murder Is My Beat
Director
Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.
The Fate of Two Queens
Director
Anthology film in which Hedy Lamarr plays 2 queens during 2 different time periods. Ulmer directed the Genoveffa di Brabante part whereas Allégret was responsible for the empress Josephine section after he left due to artistic differences with Lamarr.
Loves of Three Queens
Director
At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation.
Babes in Bagdad
Production Design
The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
Babes in Bagdad
Director
The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
St. Benny the Dip
Director
A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them.
The Man from Planet X
Director
While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.
The Pirates of Capri
Director
A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples. The Queen is advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to escape to Palermo. But, she is advised it would be good politics for her to attend a ball Amalfi is giving for his fiancée, Mercedes, who is unaware of the dual role Amalfi is playing.
Ruthless
Director
Horace Vendig always gets what he wants. Even as a poor youth, he charmed his way into high society by getting the father of his friend, Martha, to foot the bill for his Harvard education. When Vic, another childhood pal, is invited to Horace's mansion for a party, he brings along Mallory Flagg, who happens to bear a striking resemblance to Martha. As Vic and Horace reunite, old resentments rise to the surface.
Carnegie Hall
Director
A young Irishwoman comes to the United States to live and work with her mother as a cleaning lady at Carnegie Hall. She becomes attached to the place as the people she meets there gradually shape her life. The film also includes a variety of performances from some of the foremost musical artists of the times: conductors Bruno Walter & Leopold Stokowski, solists Arthur Rubinstein & Jascha Haifetz, singers Lily Pons & Jan Peerce and bandleader Vaughn Monroe among many others.
The Strange Woman
Writer
Isaiah, a 19th-century businessman, has his eye on the beautiful and very young Jenny. Finally of age, she accepts his marriage proposal, but their love affair quickly turns sour. Ephraim, Isaiah's college-age son, comes for a visit, immediately striking up a chemistry with Jenny. She promises marriage -- if he murders his father first. But Jenny also swoons for John, the fiancé of her best friend, Meg.
The Strange Woman
Director
Isaiah, a 19th-century businessman, has his eye on the beautiful and very young Jenny. Finally of age, she accepts his marriage proposal, but their love affair quickly turns sour. Ephraim, Isaiah's college-age son, comes for a visit, immediately striking up a chemistry with Jenny. She promises marriage -- if he murders his father first. But Jenny also swoons for John, the fiancé of her best friend, Meg.
Her Sister's Secret
Director
A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean's "Mardi Gras" celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. He asks her to marry him but she decides to wait until his next leave. He is sent overseas and she does not receive his letter and feels abandoned, but she does find out she is pregnant. She gives the child to her married sister and does not see her child again for three years. She returns to her sister's home to reclaim the child, and the soldier, who has been searching for her, also turns up. The sister is not interested in giving up the child. Written by Les Adams
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Adaptation
In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued by a cruel policeman (John Loder). The count's brave wife Haydée (Lenore Aubert) throws the cop off her husband's scent by dressing up as the masked avenger herself and proving that she too is most competent with a sword.
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Director
In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued by a cruel policeman (John Loder). The count's brave wife Haydée (Lenore Aubert) throws the cop off her husband's scent by dressing up as the masked avenger herself and proving that she too is most competent with a sword.
우회
Director
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
Club Havana
Director
A doctor answers a suicide call in a Latin nightclub.
Strange Illusion
Director
An adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father.
Bluebeard
Director
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
Minstrel Man
Second Unit Director
Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is cast as Dixie Boy Johnson, who rises from the ranks of minstrel shows to become a top Broadway attraction. On the opening night of his greatest stage triumph, Dixie Boy's wife dies in childbirth. Profoundly shaken, he walks out of the show, leaving the baby to be raised by his showbiz pals Mae and Lasses White (Gladys George, Roscoe Karns). The kid grows up to be an attractive young woman named Caroline (Judy Clark), who follows in her dad's footsteps by billing herself as-that's right-Dixie Girl Johnson. This leads to a tearful reunion between Caroline and the father she'd long assumed to be dead. If Minstrel Man seems at times to be a dress rehearsal for Columbia's The Jolson Story (1946), it shouldn't surprising: the PRC film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who went on to helm Jolson Story's musical highlights.
Minstrel Man
Production Design
Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is cast as Dixie Boy Johnson, who rises from the ranks of minstrel shows to become a top Broadway attraction. On the opening night of his greatest stage triumph, Dixie Boy's wife dies in childbirth. Profoundly shaken, he walks out of the show, leaving the baby to be raised by his showbiz pals Mae and Lasses White (Gladys George, Roscoe Karns). The kid grows up to be an attractive young woman named Caroline (Judy Clark), who follows in her dad's footsteps by billing herself as-that's right-Dixie Girl Johnson. This leads to a tearful reunion between Caroline and the father she'd long assumed to be dead. If Minstrel Man seems at times to be a dress rehearsal for Columbia's The Jolson Story (1946), it shouldn't surprising: the PRC film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who went on to helm Jolson Story's musical highlights.
Minstrel Man
Director
Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is cast as Dixie Boy Johnson, who rises from the ranks of minstrel shows to become a top Broadway attraction. On the opening night of his greatest stage triumph, Dixie Boy's wife dies in childbirth. Profoundly shaken, he walks out of the show, leaving the baby to be raised by his showbiz pals Mae and Lasses White (Gladys George, Roscoe Karns). The kid grows up to be an attractive young woman named Caroline (Judy Clark), who follows in her dad's footsteps by billing herself as-that's right-Dixie Girl Johnson. This leads to a tearful reunion between Caroline and the father she'd long assumed to be dead. If Minstrel Man seems at times to be a dress rehearsal for Columbia's The Jolson Story (1946), it shouldn't surprising: the PRC film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who went on to helm Jolson Story's musical highlights.
Jive Junction
Director
A young classical musician becomes the conductor a high-school all-girl jive band to entertain the troops.
Danger! Women at Work
Story
Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue.
Isle of Forgotten Sins
Screenplay
An evil sea captain and the forces of nature threaten two divers' search for a fortune in gold in the South Pacific.
Isle of Forgotten Sins
Director
An evil sea captain and the forces of nature threaten two divers' search for a fortune in gold in the South Pacific.
Hitler's Madman
Production Design
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
Hitler's Madman
Writer
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
Girls in Chains
Story
A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.
Girls in Chains
Director
A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.
My Son, The Hero
Writer
Learning that his long-unseen son is soon to arrive for a visit, a small-time con-man enlists the help of his cronies to help him pretend to be a wealthy and important businessman. Comedy.
My Son, The Hero
Director
Learning that his long-unseen son is soon to arrive for a visit, a small-time con-man enlists the help of his cronies to help him pretend to be a wealthy and important businessman. Comedy.
Corregidor
Screenplay
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
Corregidor
Story
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
The Turbosupercharger - Master of the sky
Director
Training film demonstrating the usage of the turbosupercharger, a device for providing greater engine capability at high altitude. Various techniques for operating and servicing the turbosupercharger are shown using a B- 17 bomber.
Turbosupercharger: Flight Operation
Director
Training film demonstrating the techniques and requirements of flying the B-24 bomber equipped with a turbosupercharger, a mechanism designed to help engines function at full capacity at high altitudes.
Tomorrow We Live
Director
Julie Bronson, whose father operates a desert cafe, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost who runs a desert night club several miles away.
Prisoner of Japan
Story
An American astronomer living on a Pacific island attempts to thwart the Japanese during WWII.
Another to Conquer
Director
Boasting the assistance of the Navajo Service and the Untied States Office of Indian Affairs, Another to Conquer was targeted at Native Americans and features stunning location shooting. Nema and Don, made orphans by tuberculosis, are left on the reservation following the wisdom of their science-fearing grandfather and the community’s respected leader, Slow-Talker. Robert, their neighbor and friend, has gone away to school—forsaking tradition, according to his detractors—and has learned the scientific ways of the white man. He has also learned that he has TB and, through rest and treatment, is cured. The film progresses as a battle between traditional faith and contemporary medicine. Medicine wins and Slow-Talker, a convert to its ways, becomes its spokesperson.
Goodbye, Mr. Germ
Director
A doctor explains to his children the dangers of tuberculosis, what it is and how to prevent against contracting it.
Diagnostic Procedures in Tuberculosis
Director
Diagnostic Procedures in Tuberculosis documents how to perform particular tests for tuberculosis.
They Do Come Back
Director
Young man of "Everytown" has an oral hemorrhage which subsequent examination and tests show was caused by tuberculosis. He goes to sanitarium for treatment and extensive bed rest. Epidemiological investigation reveals source of infection was lip contact with his fiancée. The importance of occupational therapy and aptitude tests is demonstrated during the patient's recovery and rehabilitation. Scenes include: sputum and blood samples, enlarged tubercle bacilli, tuberculin test, X-ray, pneumothorax surgery, and patient drafting in occupational therapy.
Cloud in the Sky
Director
Produced in both English and Spanish, the film focuses on the Lopez family, now motherless because of tuberculosis. When Consuelo, the daughter of the family, begins to manifest symptoms, she prays fervently, though a “wise padre,” as the credits would have this character, advises her to seek medical attention.
American Matchmaker
Producer
Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he can have Shirley back, and Nat graciously gives in. According to Nat's mother, his Uncle Shya was unlucky at love but lucky as a matchmaker, and Nat is just like Shya. Nat tells his family he's going to Italy. But he remains in New York and sets himself up with a new name and new business, Nat Gold, Advisor in Human Relations...
American Matchmaker
Director
Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he can have Shirley back, and Nat graciously gives in. According to Nat's mother, his Uncle Shya was unlucky at love but lucky as a matchmaker, and Nat is just like Shya. Nat tells his family he's going to Italy. But he remains in New York and sets himself up with a new name and new business, Nat Gold, Advisor in Human Relations...
Way Down South
Art Direction
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating them without provocation, and he is planning to sell off the father'e estate--including the slaves--at the earliest opportunity so he and his mistress can steal the money and move to France. The young boy doesn't want to sell his father's estate or break up an of the slave families, and he has to find someone to help him thwart the crooked executor's plans.
The Light Ahead
Production Design
The Light Ahead is possibly the greatest of Edgar G. Ulmer’s shtetl films. Here, the director counterpoints his pastoral Green Fields to criticize the poverty and superstition that oppress a pair of star-crossed lovers. Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and painfully conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. Impoverished and disabled lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free from the poverty and stifling old-world prejudices of the shtetl. The benevolent and enlightened bookseller Mendele helps them, turning small-town superstitions to their advantage. Based on Mendele Mokher Seforim's story of love frustrated by small-town ignorance, this luminous allegory of escape marries Edgar Ulmer's masterful direction with superb acting by members of New York's Artef and Yiddish Art Theaters.
The Light Ahead
Screenplay
The Light Ahead is possibly the greatest of Edgar G. Ulmer’s shtetl films. Here, the director counterpoints his pastoral Green Fields to criticize the poverty and superstition that oppress a pair of star-crossed lovers. Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and painfully conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. Impoverished and disabled lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free from the poverty and stifling old-world prejudices of the shtetl. The benevolent and enlightened bookseller Mendele helps them, turning small-town superstitions to their advantage. Based on Mendele Mokher Seforim's story of love frustrated by small-town ignorance, this luminous allegory of escape marries Edgar Ulmer's masterful direction with superb acting by members of New York's Artef and Yiddish Art Theaters.
The Light Ahead
Director
The Light Ahead is possibly the greatest of Edgar G. Ulmer’s shtetl films. Here, the director counterpoints his pastoral Green Fields to criticize the poverty and superstition that oppress a pair of star-crossed lovers. Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and painfully conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. Impoverished and disabled lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free from the poverty and stifling old-world prejudices of the shtetl. The benevolent and enlightened bookseller Mendele helps them, turning small-town superstitions to their advantage. Based on Mendele Mokher Seforim's story of love frustrated by small-town ignorance, this luminous allegory of escape marries Edgar Ulmer's masterful direction with superb acting by members of New York's Artef and Yiddish Art Theaters.
Moon Over Harlem
Producer
Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta Wilcois). Sue meanwhile, is in love with Bob (Carl Hough), an idealist fond of looking out over the skyline and saying "Harlem... there's so much to be done here--it's fairly screaming for leadership." When Bob decides to organize the community against local racketeers he little realizes would-be father-in-law Dollar Bill is one of them. Bill meanwhile has problems of his own: A vicious white mob from lower Manhattan is muscling in on his action, and bullets are about to fly.
Moon Over Harlem
Director
Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta Wilcois). Sue meanwhile, is in love with Bob (Carl Hough), an idealist fond of looking out over the skyline and saying "Harlem... there's so much to be done here--it's fairly screaming for leadership." When Bob decides to organize the community against local racketeers he little realizes would-be father-in-law Dollar Bill is one of them. Bill meanwhile has problems of his own: A vicious white mob from lower Manhattan is muscling in on his action, and bullets are about to fly.
Let My People Live
Writer
Aimed at African Americans and shot at Tuskegee University, this film instructs viewers in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis by focusing on a pair of sympathetic siblings, George and Mary, whose lives are altered by the disease. Starring Rex Ingram as Dr. Gordon, the film suggests that organized religion is an important defensive location in this particular community, and warns of the dangers of the previous generation’s superstitions and its fear of medicine. The Health Department prominently featured the film at the 1939 World’s Fair. Directed by Edgar Ulmer.
Let My People Live
Director
Aimed at African Americans and shot at Tuskegee University, this film instructs viewers in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis by focusing on a pair of sympathetic siblings, George and Mary, whose lives are altered by the disease. Starring Rex Ingram as Dr. Gordon, the film suggests that organized religion is an important defensive location in this particular community, and warns of the dangers of the previous generation’s superstitions and its fear of medicine. The Health Department prominently featured the film at the 1939 World’s Fair. Directed by Edgar Ulmer.
Cossacks in Exile
Director
Director Edgar G. Ulmer executed the low-budget COSSACKS IN EXILE (1939), for Ukrainian-Canadian producer Vasile Avramenko, with a stylish flair; this obscure little operetta contains many pleasant moments. In the Ukraine, 1775, the Zaporogian Cossacks learn that Moscow is sending soldiers to destroy their fort. The Ukrainian villagers appeal to Czarina Catherine, but she insists that they join the Russian army or risk annihilation. Instead, the Cossacks burn their fort and flee on the Danube River to Turkey, where they live in peace, but still yearn for their homeland.
The Singing Blacksmith
Director
Moishe Oysher, the renowned cantor and star of Yiddish radio, stars in Edgar G. Ulmer’s musical version of David Pinski’s play Yankl der Shmid. Singing, dancing, and flashing his eyes, Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Recently rediscovered footage makes this the most complete extant version of Ulmer’s lively folk operetta, replete with an example of Yiddish swing.
Natalka Poltavka
Director
Based on the famous operetta, Natalka Poltavka was the first Ukrainian film directed in the USA. Natalka and Petro want to get married, but Natalka's father doesn't approve of the marriage — there are more affluent men in the village. Petro goes off to earn the required fortune.
Green Fields
Director
Ulmer's soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of "true Jews," he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in as a tutor for their children.
From Nine to Nine
Director
Ruth Roland in her last role alongside Roland Drew in a mystery about murder, blackmail and stolen jewels.
Thunder Over Texas
Director
A cowboy tries to protect a young woman whose father was murdered because he had railroad maps that showed the location of a proposed new line. Now the killers are after her because they think she has the maps.
I Can't Escape
Second Unit
An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.
The Black Cat
Set Designer
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
The Black Cat
Costume Design
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
The Black Cat
Story
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
The Black Cat
Director
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
퀸 크리스티나
Production Design
그레타 가르보의 많은 명작들 중 최고작으로 꼽히는 명작! 17세기 스웨덴의 여왕이었던 크리스티나의 사랑과 슬픈 비극적 결말을 그린 사극으로 가르보의 연기가 보석같이 빛을 발한다. 특히 그녀와 길버트의 러브신은 영화사상 최고의 신들로 꼽히며 사람의 시체를 싣고서 뱃머리를 그의 고향으로 향하는 마지막 장면도 영화사를 장식하는 명 라스트 신들 중 하나이다. 크리스티나는 1632년 아버지인 구스타프 2세의 죽음으로 6세의 나이에 스웨덴의 왕위에 오른다. 크리스티나의 여왕은 지적이고 영리해서 시대를 앞서나가는 인물이었다. 하지만 그녀는 스페인 대사인 돈 안토니오와 사랑에 빠져 결혼과 왕위계승자를 낳는 것을 거부하고 28세의 나이에 왕좌에서 물러난다. 결국 돈 안토니오는 여왕을 눈독들이고 있던 재무대신인 마그누스와 결투하다 죽고 여왕은 죽은 연인의 시체와 함께 스웨덴을 떠난다.
Damaged Lives
Writer
An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
Damaged Lives
Director
An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
Kleiner Mann – was nun?
Set Designer
First adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel of the same name.
Afraid to Talk
Art Direction
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
타부
Supervising Editor
히투는 파누마의 추장으로부터 중요한 메시지를 가지고 남태평양에 위치한 작은 섬 보라보라에 도착한다. 아름다운 폴리네시아 소녀(안느 슈발리에)가 신에게 봉헌되기 위해 선택되었다는 것이다. 소년(마타히)은 부족의 금기를 어기고 그녀를 데리고 도망친다. 무르나우의 유작으로 할리우드에서 염증을 느낀 그는 의 플래허티와 함께 남태평양에서 영화를 만들기로 한다. 그러나 둘은 심각한 의견차이로 결국 플래허티가 영화에서 손을 떼고 무르나우는 아름답고 서정적인 작품을 완성해낸다. 이국적인 자연 경관과 인물들의 삶을 리듬감 있게 포착한 촬영감독 플로이드 크로스비는 아카데미 촬영상을 수상하였다. 무르나우 슈티프퉁에서 복원한 디지털 버전으로 상영된다. (2015 한국영상자료원 - 발굴, 복원 그리고 초기영화로의 초대) 무성영화시대 최고의 감독이라 평가받는 F.W. 무르나우의 마지막 영화다. 의 뉴욕 시사회의 일주일 전 그는 교통사고로 돌연 세상을 떠났다.
타부
Screenplay
히투는 파누마의 추장으로부터 중요한 메시지를 가지고 남태평양에 위치한 작은 섬 보라보라에 도착한다. 아름다운 폴리네시아 소녀(안느 슈발리에)가 신에게 봉헌되기 위해 선택되었다는 것이다. 소년(마타히)은 부족의 금기를 어기고 그녀를 데리고 도망친다. 무르나우의 유작으로 할리우드에서 염증을 느낀 그는 의 플래허티와 함께 남태평양에서 영화를 만들기로 한다. 그러나 둘은 심각한 의견차이로 결국 플래허티가 영화에서 손을 떼고 무르나우는 아름답고 서정적인 작품을 완성해낸다. 이국적인 자연 경관과 인물들의 삶을 리듬감 있게 포착한 촬영감독 플로이드 크로스비는 아카데미 촬영상을 수상하였다. 무르나우 슈티프퉁에서 복원한 디지털 버전으로 상영된다. (2015 한국영상자료원 - 발굴, 복원 그리고 초기영화로의 초대) 무성영화시대 최고의 감독이라 평가받는 F.W. 무르나우의 마지막 영화다. 의 뉴욕 시사회의 일주일 전 그는 교통사고로 돌연 세상을 떠났다.
타부
Production Manager
히투는 파누마의 추장으로부터 중요한 메시지를 가지고 남태평양에 위치한 작은 섬 보라보라에 도착한다. 아름다운 폴리네시아 소녀(안느 슈발리에)가 신에게 봉헌되기 위해 선택되었다는 것이다. 소년(마타히)은 부족의 금기를 어기고 그녀를 데리고 도망친다. 무르나우의 유작으로 할리우드에서 염증을 느낀 그는 의 플래허티와 함께 남태평양에서 영화를 만들기로 한다. 그러나 둘은 심각한 의견차이로 결국 플래허티가 영화에서 손을 떼고 무르나우는 아름답고 서정적인 작품을 완성해낸다. 이국적인 자연 경관과 인물들의 삶을 리듬감 있게 포착한 촬영감독 플로이드 크로스비는 아카데미 촬영상을 수상하였다. 무르나우 슈티프퉁에서 복원한 디지털 버전으로 상영된다. (2015 한국영상자료원 - 발굴, 복원 그리고 초기영화로의 초대) 무성영화시대 최고의 감독이라 평가받는 F.W. 무르나우의 마지막 영화다. 의 뉴욕 시사회의 일주일 전 그는 교통사고로 돌연 세상을 떠났다.
엠
Set Designer
어린이 연쇄 살인 사건 때문에 독일의 한 도시 전체가 공포의 도가니가 된다. 그러나 여덟번째 여자 어린이가 살해될 때까지도 경찰은 아무런 단서도 잡지 못한다. 이 때문에 경찰은 도시 전체를 이잡듯이 수색하게 되고, 시민들도 서로를 의심하는 등 생활의 리듬이 깨어지게 된다. 한편 범죄 조직에서도 경찰의 수사 때문에 자신들의 사업에 방해를 받자 머리를 짜내기 시작한다. 결국엔 살해범이 잡히지 않으면 자신들의 생계가 막막하다는 것을 깨닫고 자기들이 나서서 살해범을 잡기로 결정한다. 이들은 남의 눈에 띄지 않게 미행을 할 수 있는 거지 조직을 이용한다. 어느날 한 맹인 거지가 휘파람 소리를 듣고 그가 범인임을 눈치챈다. 거지는 곧 도움을 청해 다른 거지들에게 범인을 뒤쫑게 한다. 범인을 뒤쫑던 거지는 범인의 등에 살인자임을 나타내는 M이란 표시를 해놓는다. 그러나 범인은 이를 눈치채고 어느 건물안으로 들어가서 숨어버린다. 범죄 조직원들은 건물을 습격하고 결국엔 범인을 잡는다. 이들은 범인을, 마치 자신들이 법에 의해 심판을 받듯이, 심판하기로 결정한다. 범인은 자신의 살인이 충동적이며 자신도 어찌할 수 없는 것이라면서 호소한다. 그러나 범죄 조직원들은 이에 냉소적이며 사형을 내리려 한다. 그러나 범인의 변호사로 나선 사람은 자신들도 살인을 한 사람이 남을 처형할 수는 없는 것이라 결사 반대한다. 범죄 조직원 다수의 의견으로 범인의 사형이 집행될 찰나 경찰이 들이닥친다.
Aloha
Assistant Director
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
The Secret Six
Production Design
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of 6 masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
일요일의 사람들
Executive Producer
1930년에 만들어진 독일의 무성영화로 73분짜리로 만들어졌다. 일요일을 즐기는 사람들을 다큐멘터리 형식으로 스케치한 작품이다. 영화의 주인공으로 등장하는 다섯 남녀 , 택시 운전사, 모델, 와인 딜러, 영화 엑스트라, 레코드 가게 직원은 실제로 그 일을 하는 일반인을 캐스팅하였다.
일요일의 사람들
Director
1930년에 만들어진 독일의 무성영화로 73분짜리로 만들어졌다. 일요일을 즐기는 사람들을 다큐멘터리 형식으로 스케치한 작품이다. 영화의 주인공으로 등장하는 다섯 남녀 , 택시 운전사, 모델, 와인 딜러, 영화 엑스트라, 레코드 가게 직원은 실제로 그 일을 하는 일반인을 캐스팅하였다.
시티 걸
Assistant Art Director
미네소타에서 밀 농장을 하는 렘은 시카고로 밀을 팔러 간다. 기차에서 렘은 우연히 케이트를 만나고 둘은 사랑에 빠진다. 렘은 케이트와 함께 고향으로 돌아오는데, 어머니와 어린 여동생은 케이트를 반기지만 아버지는 의심과 경계의 시선을 거두지 않는다. 독일 표현주의를 대표하는 거장 프리드리히 빌헬름 무르나우가 할리우드에서 만든 마지막 작품. 분주한 도시와 드넓은 밀밭의 모습이 대조되며 햇살이 비치는 밀밭, 역동적인 수확기의 모습은 무르나우의 서정적인 풍경을 더욱 풍요롭게 만든다.
Spiel um den Mann
Art Direction
Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
Art Direction
Flucht in die Fremdenlegion
Line Producer
4 Devils
Assistant Art Director
The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Film historian and collector William K. Everson stated that the only surviving print was lost by actress Mary Duncan who had borrowed it from Fox Studios. In the December 1974 issue of "Films in Review," he explained that Mary Duncan, one of the film's stars, wanted it to show to a group of friends in Florida. The star was aware that it was a dangerous nitrate print and assumed that Fox had others. She threw the only copy in the ocean, a mistake characterized by Everson as "a monumental blunder to rank with Balaclava, Sarajevo, and the Fall of Babylon as one of history's blackest moments."
Street of Sin
Set Designer
스파이
Set Designer
겉으로는 점잖은 은행가이지만, 사실 하기는 거대 스파이 조직의 수장이다. 비밀정보부에서는 요원 326호에게 눈엣가시인 하기를 끌어내리라는 명령을 내린다. 부랑자로 변장한 326호는 절대 정체를 들키지 않을 거라 생각하지만, 이미 요원의 존재를 알고 있던 하기는 아름다운 스파이 소냐를 326호에게 붙인다. 하지만 하기가 꿈에도 생각지 않았던 변수가 발생한다. 프리츠 랑이 자신이 만든 제작사에서 처음으로 만든 작품이며, 프리츠 랑과 그의 아내가 함께 시나리오를 썼다고 한다. 긴장감 넘치는 전개와 세밀한 묘사는 수많은 범죄영화에 영향을 주었다. 디지털 복원판 상영. (2017 영화의 전당 - [시네마테크] 마지막 침묵: 1928년의 기적, 위대한 무성영화의 기억)
선라이즈
Assistant Art Director
시골에서 아이를 키우며 정답게 살아가던 부부. 그러나 남편은 도시에서 온 화려한 여자에게 마음을 빼앗기고 그 여자의 유혹에 넘어가 아내를 죽이려 한다. 하지만 아내는 기차를 타고 도망가고 남편은 아내를 죽이려 했다는 것을 후회하며 아내를 따라 기차에 오른다. 어쩔 수 없이 기차를 타고 도시에 도착한 부부. 도시에서 다시 한번 두 사람의 사랑을 깨닫고 다시 집으로 돌아오는데...
메트로폴리스
Set Designer
풍요로운 삶을 누리는 지상세계의 프레더는 어느날 마리아를 통해 지하 세계의 비참한 생활상을 알게된다. 프레더는 그의 아버지 프레드슨에게 노동자들의 삶을 개선해 줄 것을 요청하지만 거절당한다. 한편 마리아가 주도하는 지하 세계의 집회를 목격한 프레드슨은 로트왕에게 마리아와 똑같은 로봇을 만들어 지하세계의 노동자들을 교란할 것을 명령하는데...
The Border Sheriff
Assistant Director
Carter Brace is out to murder Belden. Collins who was sent to bring in the border gang led by Brace, saves Belden's life in San Francisco. When they all reach the border, Brace tries again.
원더미어 부인의 부채
Art Direction
얼린 부인은 다시금 사교계에서 명성을 얻고 싶어한다. 그녀에게 금전적인 도움까지 주던 윈더미어 경이 그녀를 아내의 생일파티에 초대하는데, 윈더미어 부인은 두 사람 사이를 의심한다. 참을 수 없던 부인은 남편을 떠나 자신을 갈망하는 달링턴 경에게 가기로 결심한다. 이를 눈치챈 얼린 부인이 윈더미어 부인을 설득하는데, 그녀는 그만 실수로 달링턴 경의 집에 부채를 두고 나온다. 아일랜드 출신의 작가 오스카 와일드의 대표 희곡을 영화화한 작품
Joyless Street
Set Designer
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
마지막 웃음
Assistant Director
은발의 멋진 구렛나루 수염을 쓰다듬으며 금빛 단추의 제복을 뽐내는 한 호텔 도어맨이 있다. 그는 출퇴근을 할 때에도 항상 호텔 제복을 입고 다니며, 나이는 들었지만 자신이 아직도 상당히 매력적이고 힘도 센 괜찮은 남자라는 생각 한다. 그리고 도어맨으로서의 직업적 자긍심도 대단하다. 그러던 어느날 도어맨이 손님의 무거운 가방을 나르고 숨이 차 잠시 로비에서 쉬고 있는데, 이를 호텔 매니저가 목격한다. 이 일이 빌미가 되어 도어맨은 나이가 많다는 이유로 세면장에서 수건 수발을 드는 자리로 좌천당하게 된다. 그런데 그날이 하필이면 질녀의 결혼식 날이였다. 제복을 벗은 초라한 자신의 모습을 친척들에게 보여줄 수 없다고 생각한 도어맨은 제복을 몰래 훔쳐내 입고 결혼식에 참석한다. 결혼식을 마친 다음 날 이런 사실을 모르는 친척 아주머니가 도어맨에게 줄 도시락을 들고 호텔로 찾아가는데...
마지막 웃음
Production Design
은발의 멋진 구렛나루 수염을 쓰다듬으며 금빛 단추의 제복을 뽐내는 한 호텔 도어맨이 있다. 그는 출퇴근을 할 때에도 항상 호텔 제복을 입고 다니며, 나이는 들었지만 자신이 아직도 상당히 매력적이고 힘도 센 괜찮은 남자라는 생각 한다. 그리고 도어맨으로서의 직업적 자긍심도 대단하다. 그러던 어느날 도어맨이 손님의 무거운 가방을 나르고 숨이 차 잠시 로비에서 쉬고 있는데, 이를 호텔 매니저가 목격한다. 이 일이 빌미가 되어 도어맨은 나이가 많다는 이유로 세면장에서 수건 수발을 드는 자리로 좌천당하게 된다. 그런데 그날이 하필이면 질녀의 결혼식 날이였다. 제복을 벗은 초라한 자신의 모습을 친척들에게 보여줄 수 없다고 생각한 도어맨은 제복을 몰래 훔쳐내 입고 결혼식에 참석한다. 결혼식을 마친 다음 날 이런 사실을 모르는 친척 아주머니가 도어맨에게 줄 도시락을 들고 호텔로 찾아가는데...
니벨룽겐 - 크림힐트의 복수
Set Designer
의 2부로 크림힐트가 훈족의 여왕이 되어 지그프리트의 복수를 하는 과정을 그리고 있다. 크림힐트는 지그프리트를 죽인 하겐과 브룬힐트 일족을 자기 성으로 끌어 들여 피 어린 복수전을 시작한다. 1922년부터 23년까지 9개월간 UFA의 바벨스부르크 스튜디오에서 제작된 이 영화는 당시 1,2부로 나누어 양일에 걸쳐 개봉되어 큰 성공을 거두었다. 이전작품과 다른 대작을 연출해야 했던 프리츠 랑 감독은 아내인 테아 폰 하르보와 촬영감독 칼 호프만, 예술감독 오토 훈테, 칼 폴브레히트와 독일 특유의 감성어린 웅장하고 비극적인 걸작을 만들었다. 상징주의와 독일 표현주의 양식이 드러난 이 영화는 에이젠슈타인의 에 영향을 끼쳤다고 한다.
The Saga of Gosta Berling
Set Designer
Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.
니벨룽겐의 노래
Set Designer
네덜란드의 왕자 지그프리트는 군터 왕을 만나러 가던 중 거대한 용을 만난다. 용을 무찌른 지그프리트는 용의 피를 뒤집어 쓰고 불사신이 되고, 난쟁이의 도깨비 감투도 손에 넣는다. 이후 군터 왕을 만난 지그프리트는 그의 여동생 크림힐트와의 결혼을 요청하고, 군터는 자신이 아이슬랜드의 여왕 브룬힐트와 결혼할 수 있도록 도와주면 결혼을 허락하겠노라고 한다. 브룬힐트와 결혼하기 위해서는 그녀와의 대결에서 이겨야만 했는데, 군터는 지그프리트의 힘을 이용한 것이다. 대결에서 이긴 군터는 브룬힐트와 결혼하고 지그프리트와 크림힐트도 결혼하지만, 속임수로 자신을 이겼음을 알게 된 브룬힐트는 크게 분노하고 지그프리트를 죽일 음모를 꾸민다.
The Finances of the Grand Duke
Assistant Director
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.
The Finances of the Grand Duke
Production Design
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.
Merry-Go-Round
Art Direction
A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.
Sodom and Gomorrah
Production Design
Exposed to bad influences since childhood, Mary, a young girl is pushed by her mother to approach an elderly banker by the name of Harber. After almost driving her fiancee to suicide and seducing his mentally-ill son, she realizes through a metaphorical dream the scope of her negligence. Sentenced to prison for incitement to murder Harber, she sees herself as a parallel figure to Lea, Lot's wife in Sodom, where the Angel of the Lord warns the sinful citizens of the city of their impending doom. Lea oppresses the angel and eventually turns it over to the pagan priests when her sexual advances to it are rejected. In another dream sequence, Mary becomes the Queen of Syria, whose oppressed people turn against her and who, in turn, condemns a young man who loves her to death. Finally, her dream returns to the present time and when she awakens, she runs back to her former lover.
골렘
Set Designer
16세기 프라하. 한 유대인 랍비가 유대인들의 처형을 막아주기 위한 수호신으로 거대한 진흙 생명체인 골렘을 만들어 그 속에 생명을 불어넣으려 한다. 그러나 사악한 랍비의 조수는 골렘을 자신의 야욕을 채우기 위한 범죄에 이용할 생각에 골렘을 조종하고 마침내는 랍비의 아름다운 딸까지 납치하도록 시킨다. 그러나 랍비에게서 인간의 감정을 선사 받은 골렘은 결국에는 자신을 악용하는 조수의 사악함에 반기를 들게 된다. 독일 표현주의 무성 환타지 영화의 걸작.