Robert Siodmak
Director, Actor
- People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1929)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer
- Scripted by a young Billy Wilder, this pivotal silent film harnessed the nascent talents of many other German film–makers that would come to…
- Son of Dracula (1943)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney, Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton…
- The toothsome Count (not the son, despite the title), here played by Lon Chaney Jnr, sinks fangs into a selection of Southern belles and their…
- Phantom Lady (1944)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Alan Curtis, Ella Raines, Virginia Brissac…
- Dark little treat of a thriller focused on a married man who spends a night with a mysterious lady and subsequently finds his wife murdered. The…
- Christmas Holiday (1944)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly
- Considered one of the bleakest Film Noirs of the 1940s, casting musical star Deanna Durbin in a rare serious role as a woman who marries an…
- Spiral Staircase, The (1946)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Ethel Barrymore, George Brent
- This creaky staircase descends into a spooky mansion of cantankerous matriarchs, mute nymphettes, 'weak' stepsons and impending murder. Dated, yes,…
- Dark Mirror, The (1946)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres
- Playing twin sisters with obvious relish, Olivia de Havilland is the chiefsuspect in a murder investigation who confounds the prosecution with a pair…
- Killers, The (1946)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner
- Textbook film noir has insurance investigator Edmund O'Brien auditing the curious death of prize–fighter Burt Lancaster, in a series of…
- Twentieth Century Fox Film Noir Boxset (House of Strangers, Dark Corner, Cry of the City, Nightmare Alley) (1946-1949)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak, Henry Hathaway, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Four grim, under–rated film–noirs from Fox studios including the exceptional CRY OF THE CITY.
- Criss Cross (1948)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea…
- Film noir stars Lancaster as Steve Thompson, a love–lorn armored truck driver obsessed with air–headed ex–wife Anna (De Carlo) who…
- Cry of the City (1948)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark…
- Dying cop–killer Conte refuses to confess to a crime, and worries that childhood friend turned flinty cop Mature, will implicate his girlfriend…