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Every Hollywood studio had its distinctive style, partly brought about by artists it had under contract.

AS SEEN IN: " Introducing Dorothy Dandridge " AS PLAYED BY: Klaus Maria Brandauer Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian-born American film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career.

After being kicked off a bus for travelling beyond his stop, failed press angent Eric Stanton wanders into the small town of Walton in California and immediately makes an impression on the local waitress Stella .

Night and the City is the stand-out title here, a top-quality example of the genre with the unusual feature that the mean streets through which smalltime hustler Richard Widmark plies his trade are the still-familiar ones of postwar London.

MARTY McFly, Deanna Durbin and three doses of Tarantino, in the film guide that's investigating its own death.

The 1945 musical version of STATE FAIR is one of my favorite movies, so I've always avoided the 1962 remake.

The 1945 musical version of STATE FAIR is one of my favorite movies, so I've always avoided the 1962 remake.

Nevertheless both are worthy in their own right -- dark crime thrillers that slide in and out of genre boundaries, but effectively create an identity of their own.

MADMAN has recently released three fine films noirs from director Otto Preminger that were made for Fox in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Left: Exhibit A: Anatomy Of A Murder, with James Stewart and Kathryn Grant, is Premingera s best.