Robert Siodmak
1900 - 1973Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 - 10 March 1973) was a German born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s.
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The Killers
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
The Killers
Mollenard
Robert Siodmak
Harry Baur, Albert Préjean
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...
Hatred
Criss Cross
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo
Burt Lancaster plays Steve Thompson, a man who seals his dark fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judgement. She encourages their affair but then quickly marries mobster Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea). To deflect suspicion of the affair, Steve Thompson leads Dundee into a daylight armored-truck robbery.
Criss Cross
The Suspect
Robert Siodmak
Charles Laughton, Ella Raines
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
The Suspect
Menschen am Sonntag
Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer
Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
People on Sunday
Someone to Remember
Robert Siodmak
Mabel Paige, John Craven
An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She continues to live in the building after it becomes a dorm, and eventually grows attached to a troubled young student whom she comes to believe is her own grandson. When she finds out that the boy's father will be visiting him, she prepares herself to be reunited with the man she has convinced herself is her long-lost son.
Someone to Remember
Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam
Robert Siodmak
Claus Holm, Mario Adorf
Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case.
The Devil Strikes at Night
Cry of the City
Robert Siodmak
Victor Mature, Richard Conte
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
Cry of the City
The Crimson Pirate
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
The Crimson Pirate
Mein Schulfreund
Robert Siodmak
Heinz Rühmann, Loni von Friedl
Рейхсмаршал Геринг решил спасти от смертной казни своего школьного товарища, почтальона Фукса, обвиненного в государственной измене. Фукса признали сумасшедшим, выдали соответствующую справку, освободили из заключения Прикрываясь справкой о невменяемости, Фукс вволю насмехается над фашистскими порядками. После окончания войны почтальон вознамерился заняться своей любимой работой. Но...фиктивная справка не потеряла своей силы. Тогда по совету адвоката Фукс устраивает дебош. Его отправляют на судебно-медицинскую экспертизу и признают здоровым. К счастью, наказание назначается условное, и почтальон становится почтальоном.
Mein Schulfreund
The File on Thelma Jordon
Robert Siodmak
Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
The File on Thelma Jordon
