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Jan 5, 2015 · Starring Robert Ryan and an against-type Burl Ives (he’s the stranger), de Toth’s film ranks as one of the finest psychological westerns ever committed to celluloid. Our hero is Ryan’s Blaise Starrett, who we find in the film’s opening positively seething with rage towards local rancher Hal Crane, who has erected a barbed wire fence on the open range.
Oct 18, 2021 · André De Toth is one of the great, unsung directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age. As Fred Camper noted in a 1997 essay bemoaning his lack of stature, De Toth receives only a cursory nod in Andrew Sarris’s canonical The American Cinema, with barely a paragraph of vague commentary, and he isn’t included at all in the 1984 International Directory of Films and Filmmakers. Curiously, he isn’t ...
Oct 24, 2023 · With André De Toth, the truth is particularly difficult to establish, since he clearly and consciously created a larger-than-life persona of a legendary director. At this point there are two books in English about De Toth. One is a series of interviews edited by Anthony Slide, De Toth on De Toth: Putting the Drama in Front of the Camera.
Dec 3, 2015 · Made in 1959 on a small scale budget by the renowned Hungarian / American director Andre De Toth (who also directed the classic 1948 Dick Powell / Lizabeth Scott noir Pitfall and the brilliant 1954 Sterling Hayden picture Crime Wave), in the snowy wastes of Mount Bachelor, Oregon (odds on that Day Of The Outlaw is a key inspiration for Tarantino’s forthcoming snow bound The Hateful Eight ...
Vol. 25 (January 2013) by Patricia Bass. Andre de Toth’s Crime Wave (1954) starts appropriately for a film noir, with the camera panning over nocturnal city traffic from the backseat of a moving car. When the car stops at a gas station and the passenger gets out, the camera lingers in the backseat, giving a “peeping tom” view of the ...
Mar 21, 2003 · Alain Silver. March 2003. André de Toth (1913 - 2002) - A Tribute. Issue 25. This interview was originally published in Film Noir Reader 3 on February 12, 2001. It is published here with permission. André de Toth was born in Mako, Hungary on May 12, 1913. After earning a law degree in the early 1930s, de Toth, who had won acclaim for plays ...
Mar 21, 2003 · – André de Toth André de Toth is one of the most elusive and deceptive of all directors who worked in classical Hollywood cinema. Few of his films are regularly screened – except perhaps the often gruesome 3-D extravaganza House of Wax (1953) and the Gary Cooper vehicle Springfield Rifle (1952) – and little critical writing exists on his work.
