THE YOUNG LIONS

Edward Dmytryk

(Grand Forks, Canada, 1908-Encino, USA, 1999), director, film editor, and Hollywood producer, was born in Canada into a family of Ukrainian origin and moved to the United States as a child. Starting in the early 1930s, he worked in Hollywood as a film editor and later as a director, above all making films noirs (Crossfire, 1947, and Murder, My Sweet, 1944). He has gone down in history as one of the “Hollywood Ten,” one of the people who, during McCarthyism, was interrogated by the House Un-American Activities Committee but  refused to collaborate. He ended up on the black list, was imprisoned, and later gave the names of a few Communist Party collaborators. For this reason, after spending some time in England, he was able to return to Hollywood and continue working during the 1950s, making successful movies such as The Caine Mutiny (1954), Raintree County (1957) and The Young Lions (1958).

FILMOGRAFIA

The Hawk (1935), Million Dollar Legs (1939), Television Spy (1939), Emergency Squad (1940), Golden Gloves (Guanti d’oro, 1940), Mystery Sea Raider (1940), Her First Romance (1940), The Devil Commands (1941), Under Age (1941), Sweetheart of the Campus (1941), The Blonde from Singapore (1941), Secrets of the Lone Wolf (1941), Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941), Counter-Espionage (1942), Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942), Hitler’s Children (1943), The Falcon Strikes Back (1943), Captive Wild Woman (1943), Behind the Rising Sun (Tragico oriente, 1943), Tender Comrade (Eravamo tanto felici, 1943), Murder, My Sweet (L’ombra del passato, 1944), Back to Bataan (Gli eroi del Pacifico, 1945), Cornered (Missione di morte, 1945), Till the End of Time (Anime ferite, 1946), So Well Remembered (1947), Crossfire (Odio implacabile, 1947), Obsession (Vendico il tuo peccato, 1949), Give Us This Day (Cristo fra i muratori, 1949), Mutiny (Gli ammutinati dell’Atlantico, 1952), The Sniper (Nessuno mi salver, 1952), Eight Iron Men (Otto uomini di ferro, 1952), The Juggler (I perseguitati, 1953), The Caine Mutiny (L’ammutinamento del Caine, 1954), Broken Lance (La lancia che uccide, 1954), The End of the Affair (La fine dell’avventura, 1955), Soldier of Fortune (L’avventuriero di Hong Kong, 1955), The Left Hand of God (La mano sinistra di Dio, 1955), The Mountain (La montagna, 1956), Raintree County (L’albero della vita, 1957), The Young Lions (I giovani leoni, 1958), Warlock (Ultima notte a Warlock, 1959), The Blue Angel (L’angelo azzurro, 1959), Walk on the Wild Side (Anime sporche, 1962), The Reluctant Saint (Cronache di un convento, 1962), The Carpetbaggers (L’uomo che non sapeva amare, 1964), Where Love Has Gone (Quando l’amore se n’è andato, 1964), Mirage (1965), Alvarez Kelly (id., 1966), Anzio (Lo sbarco di Anzio, coregia Duilio Coletti, 1968), Shalako (1968), Bluebeard (Barbablù, 1972), He Is My Brother (1975), The Human Factor (Il giustiziere, 1975).