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	Robert Siodmak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Siodmak was born to a Jewish family in Dresden, Germany (the myth of his American birth in Memphis, Tennessee was necessary for him to obtain a visa in Paris).
		Siodmak arrived in Hollywood in 1939, where he made 23 movies, many of them widely popular thrillers and crime melodramas, which critics regard today as classics of film noir.
		Siodmak was awarded $100,000, but no screen credit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Siodmak (893 words)

	German 43: Resources: Biographies: Siodmak, Curt
		Celebrated as a hallmark of neo-realist and avant-garde filmmaking, the film was based on Curt's own story, and co-directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, with a script by Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann behind the camera.
		Siodmak's science-fiction novel Donovan's Brain (1943) was an international bestseller and adapted for the screen many times.
		Though often eclipsed by the fame of his older brother, Curt Siodmak was perhaps the more talented and original of the two artists.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~germ43/resources/biographies/siodmak-c.html (252 words)

	The Films of Robert Siodmak - by Michael Grost
		Siodmak's composition during the nickelodeon scenes is superb.
		Siodmak has been careful to select a road full of telephone poles and wires, which emphasizes the perspective effect of the road receding to infinity.
		Siodmak shoots the scene, so that the window is at an angle to the plane of the shot.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/siodmak.htm (2613 words)

	Robert Siodmak
		Other critics, most notably J. Greco in his analysis of Siodmak's noir cycle, The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood: 1941–1951, suggest that Siodmak's birthplace was Dresden and that his American birthplace was a myth used by the director to obtain a visa in Paris (1).
		Siodmak's career shines during a brief ten-year span, from 1943 to 1953, and it is not a coincidence that this span also marks the zenith of the noir cycle.
		As Robert Porforio notes, “This detachment is enhanced by the objective persuasion of the crane-mounted camera…Such codes of expression combine to dissipate much of the tension implicit in the immediacy of the spatio-temporal order” (11).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/siodmak.html (3712 words)

	2blowhards.com: Robert Siodmak
		Born into a banking family, Siodmak was a German Jew who found his way into the moviebiz, where he began as an editor and a writer of title cards for silent movies.
		Robert's brother Curt Siodmak landed in Hollywood too, where he made a name for himself as a screenwriter, with "The Wolf Man" and "I Walked With a Zombie" among his credits.
		Siodmak was one of the exiled filmmakers who brought the style and mood of German Expressionism to bear on Hollywood genre stories, one of movie history's happier merging of elements.
	www.2blowhards.com /archives/2005/02/robert_siodmak.html (1482 words)

	Robert Siodmak - Films as Director:, Other Films:
		Robert Siodmak is an example of the UFA-influenced German directors who moved to Hollywood when war threatened Europe.
		Siodmak's work is frequently discussed in comparison with that of Alfred Hitchcock, partly because they shared a producer, Joan Harrison, for a period of time.
		Although Siodmak's films were successful both critically and commercially in their day, he has never achieved the recognition which the visual quality of his work should have earned him.
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-Sc-St/Siodmak-Robert.html (959 words)

	Portrait of the director Robert Siodmak by Thomas Staedeli
		Robert Siodmak had first contacts to the theater as an actor in small parts at the "Stattliches Schauspielhaus" in Dresden.
		Finally Robert Siodmak emigrated to France, his brother Curt Siodmak - a successful author and screenwriter (Donovan's Brain) - emigrated to England, his second brother Rolf chose suicide at the age of 20.
		Robert Siodmak's popularity increased year to year and achieved the zenith in 1946 with "The Killers".
	www.cyranos.ch /smsiod-e.htm (429 words)

	Amazon.ca: Custer of the West: Video: Robert Siodmak,Robert Shaw,Mary Ure,Ty Hardin,Jeffrey Hunter,Robert Ryan,Charles ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Robert Siodmak's Custer of the West, his final American production, attempts the task with fine results, portraying the career soldier as a pragmatist, a disciplinarian with a bullying streak, a loner, and ultimately an Old World romantic in the modern age.
		Siodmak's sweeping visuals deliver both grand images and ironic counterpoint, but ultimately Custer of the West eschews the heroism of Hollywood adventures for a portrait of the corrupt state of the American military and one man's hopeless fight against it.
		Robert Shaw gives a solid performance as General George Custer and beautifully creates another interpretation into the myth of the man. Shaw demonstrates none of the flamboyancy associated with Custer but instead concentrates on the virility and single-minded duty of his command.
	www.amazon.ca /Custer-West-Robert-Siodmak/dp/6304953755 (1665 words)

	village voice > film > "Robert Siodmak: '40s Noir" at BAMcinématek by Elliott Stein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Siodmak had a great eye and a flair for camera movements that were graceful yet ominous.
		Siodmak was working here with Woody Bredell, one of noir's foremost cameramen, who had shot Phantom Lady and would later organize the harsh, unsettling lighting schemas of The Killers.
		Siodmak's close rapport with actors is also evident in The Killers, which featured Burt Lancaster's screen debut as Swede, the young boxer-turned-criminal in an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's story.
	villagevoice.com /issues/0218/stein.php (895 words)

	The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood: 1941-1951 eBooks
		Robert Siodmak, who is considered the master of film noir thrillers and crime melodramas, has long been seen as a mere "assignment director," never an artist in complete control of his work.
		J. Greco's study of Siodmak's Hollywood career dispels this view and presents a unique perspective on the studio system and the director who used cunning to get his own way within it.
		Now, it is time to open the file on Robert Siodmak, to give this master of suspense and film noir the considerate attention that for too long he has not received.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebooks/file-on-robert-siodmak-in-hollywood-1941-1951-greco-ebooks.htm (375 words)

	Comedy Central: Movies - Robert Siodmak - Biography
		Born in Memphis, Tennessee, where his German banker father and his wife were travelling, Robert Siodmak -- the older brother of Curt Siodmak -- was raised and educated in Germany and became an actor after graduating from the University of Marburg.
		Siodmak became an editor in 1926 and three years later, on Menshen am Sontag (People on Sunday), he made his directorial debut in asociation with Edgar G. Ulmer, with future director Fred Zinnemann as the co-cinematographer, and Curt Siodmak and Billy Wilder as screenwriters.
		Siodmak also directed the strange psychological chiller The Dark Mirror, about identical twins (played by Olivia de Havilland), one of whom is a psychopathic murderer, which today is a very highly regarded film noir.
	www.comedycentral.com /movies/person/98914/bio.jhtml (364 words)

	Robert Siodmak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The film launched the careers not only of co-directors Siodmak and Edgar Ulmer, but of co-screenwriters Billy Wilder and Curt Siodmak (Robert's younger brother), cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan and his assistant, Fred Zinnemann.
		Three years and three films later, however, the Jewish Siodmak was forced into exile, first in France, where he made, among others, PERSONAL COLUMN (1939), and then, in 1941, to Hollywood.
		Central to the succcess of all of these is Siodmak's ability to evoke a sinister mood, a fear of each and every dark shadow, while maintaining a taut narrative drive.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho2/siodmak_r.htm (277 words)

	Robert Siodmak - DvdToile
		Robert Siodmak - Heinz Rühmann, Robert Graf, Ernst Schröder
		Robert Siodmak - Gina Lollobrigida, Jean-Claude Pascal, Arletty
		Robert Siodmak - Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Evelyn Ankers
	www.dvdtoile.com /Filmographie.php?id=4623 (2379 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Robert Siodmak/Don Siegel - 2003 - Killers, The (1946) / Killers, The (1964) Movies Review
		Siodmak examines both racial subjugation and murder in this sequence, contrasting the conscious violence that the killers enact on Ole Anderson with the unconscious violence of a society's racist strata.
		Siodmak's thick German accent and enunciation lead us into the performance ominously and take us out humorously as he jokes around about his life and work.
		Robert Siodmak made quite a few films in Hollywood and Criterion includes several trailers of his efforts.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10004614 (2225 words)

	Robert Siodmak Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Three years and three films later, however, the Jewish Siodmak was forced into exile, first in France, where he made, among others, the enjoyable "42nd Street" clone, "La Crise est Finis" (1934) and the darker drama "Pieges/Personal Column" (1939), and then, in 1941, to Hollywood.
		Central to the success of all of these is Siodmak's ability to evoke a sinister mood, a fear of each and every dark shadow, while maintaining a taut narrative drive.
		Siodmak's brother Curt enjoyed success as a writer of horror films ("I Walked With a Zombie" 1943, "The Beast With Five Fingers" 1947) but earned less acclaim for his directing work.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/192102 (617 words)

	Robert Siodmak: Two From Siodmak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Siodmak like the other German émigré directors Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, and Otto Preminger dominated the field of Film Noir.
		Robert Siodmak’s Noir credits also include Phantom Lady (1943), Cry of the City (1948), and The File on Thelma Jordon (1949), but his single Oscar® nomination was for “The Killers” based loosely on the Ernest Hemingway short story of the same name.
		The sensibilities of Siodmak and Veiller with the hard boiled realism of Hellinger blend to exemplify many of the most engaging aspects of Film Noir.
	www.moderntimes.com /palace/kc.htm (1384 words)

	Amazon.com: The Spiral Staircase: DVD: Robert Siodmak,Dorothy McGuire,George Brent,Ethel Barrymore,Kent Smith,Rhonda ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Robert Siodmak's "The Spiral Staircase" is one of my all-time favorite thrillers.
		Siodmak, a master of film noir, holds your attention for approximately 85 minutes, and never lets go.
		Robert Siodmak was an excellent "B" movie director, having made masterpieces on relatively small budgets.
	www.amazon.com /Spiral-Staircase-Robert-Siodmak/dp/B000AM6OOE (2901 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Killers: Video: Robert Siodmak,Burt Lancaster,Ava Gardner,Edmond O'Brien,Albert Dekker,Sam Levene,Vince ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The reason is, while director Robert Siodmak, star Burt Lancaster, and an outstanding supporting cast are faithful to Hemingway's work, his story only takes up about 15 minutes of screen time.
		Once the Hemingway material was used up the screenwriters emptied the sack of film-noir spare parts in an effort to keep this vehicle running: the fight game, the big heist, the prison cell buddies, the nightclub shootup, the chanteuse, the double-cross.
		Helping him solve the case is Philadelphia detective Sam Levene, the murder victim of crazed anti-Semitic psychopath Robert Ryan in "Crossfire." Levene, a Philadelphia boyhood chum of Lancaster's, marries his former girlfriend, Virginia Christine, who would gain fame in the sixties as Mrs.
	www.amazon.ca /Killers-Robert-Siodmak/dp/B00004R79B (2201 words)

	Amazon.com: The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood: 1941-1951: Books: Joseph Greco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Robert Siodmak arrived in Hollywood in 1939, having abandoned an established, successful film-making career in Europe.
		THE FILE ON ROBERT SIODMAK IN HOLLYWOOD: 1941-1951 is a wonderful first-step in the reevaluation of this overlooked director's Hollywood films.
		The title, a play on "The File on Thelma Jordan," the last of Siodmak's American films noir, sets up false expectations that the book will deal with Siodmak's private life, perhaps politics in that era of WWII and HUAC, but this is not the case.
	www.amazon.com /File-Robert-Siodmak-Hollywood-1941-1951/dp/1581120818 (1416 words)

	Film Noir Directors: Robert Siodmak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Robert Siodmak: A Biography, with Critical Analyses of His Films Noirs and a Filmography of All His Works is an excellent resource on Siodmak, and delivers exactly what its subtitle promises.
		One or two to a chapter, all of the director's films are discussed in detail, with the author devoting additional space to Siodmak's films noirs classics.
		The book is important not only as a study of Siodmak's noir cycle (1940-1951), but also because the author devotes equal space to Siodmak's work in Germany both before and after the years in the U.S. IMDB page on Robert Siodmak
	www.eskimo.com /~noir/directors/siodmak/index.shtml (152 words)

	The Dark Mirror
		Siodmak, like his hero Lang, was adept at melding both sub-genres, and The Dark Mirror is an unsettling hybrid work (not least in its lurches from comedy to romance to horror).
		The inkblot behind Siodmak's director credit resembles a bat; Terry, in fl, flinches from the light Dr. Elliott shines on her; later, she rises like Max Schreck in her bed to terrorise her sleeping sister.
		It is this profound anti-rational streak (and dubious doctors and scientists appear throughout his work) that Siodmak inserts into a story celebrating the triumph of rationality and social order, undermining science's insistence on patterning behaviour, locking individuals into pre-ordained destinies like characters in a genre film.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/04/dark_mirror.html (1309 words)

	Robert Siodmak - Moviefone
		Born in Memphis, Tennessee, where his German banker father and his wife were travelling, Robert Siodmak -- the older brother of Curt Siodmak -- was...
		Robert Siodmak on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		Robert Siodmak - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Robert Siodmak Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/robert-siodmak/111677/main (91 words)

	Robert Siodmak Biografia
		Con l'ascesa del nazismo Siodmak si trovò impossibilitato a continuare a lavorare in Germania, e così riparò a Parigi, dove già si trovavano Wilder e Schüfftan.
		La partenza di Siodmak fu affrettata da Goebbels che aveva attaccato il regista accusandolo di essere un «corruttore della famiglia tedesca» per aver insistito sui dissapori coniugali in Segreto ardente (Brennendes Geheimnis, 1933).
		Siodmak cala lo spettatore nella visuale della giovane sordomuta perseguitata da un maniaco e, grazie al suo silenzio, evoca il muto terrore dei protagonisti degli antichi film gotici dell'horror.
	www.mymovies.it /dizionario/biblio.asp?r=2434 (837 words)

	Porträt des Regisseurs Robert Siodmak by Thomas Staedeli
		Der Regisseur Robert Siodmak wurde in Dresden geboren.
		Robert Siodmak emigrierte nach Frankreich, sein Bruder Curt Siodmak, der ein erfolgreicher Schriftsteller und Drehbuchautor war, ging nach London, sein Bruder Rolf wählte im Alter von 20 Jahren den Freitod.
		Robert Siodmak konnte in den nächsten Jahren in Frankreich etliche Filme drehen.
	www.cyranos.ch /smsiod-d.htm (430 words)

	Robert Siodmak: See what people are saying right now on Technorati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Robert Siodmak: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
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	AMCTV.com SHOW - Custer of the West
		Director Robert Siodmak's rousing biography of the infamous general.
		The excellent cast is headed by Robert Shaw as a Custer beleaguered by corrupt government policy, and includes Mary Ure as the energetic Libby Custer and the always wonderful Robert Ryan as a cavalry deserter obsessed with finding gold in them thar Black Hills.
		Robert Hall, Ty Hardin, Jeffrey Hunter, Marc Lawrence, Kieron Moore, Luis Rivera, Robert Ryan, Robert Shaw, Lawrence Tierney, Mary Ure
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=8856-1-EST (73 words)

	Robert Siodmak at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Robert Siodmak at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
		Siodmak, born in the United States while his parents were on a business trip [according to the IMDb, Siodmak was born in Dresden, Germany], was raised in Germany where he became an established director who worked with such notables as Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann and Billy Wilder.
		Forced into exile by the rise of the Nazi party, he made his way to Hollywood in 1940 where he was put to work on some lesser B-pictures.
	www.altfg.com /Articles/robertsiodmakatlacma.htm (465 words)

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