Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Release: 1991-10-28
·Runtime: 123m
·★ 7.7
Documentary
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
Production Countries
Austria
United States of America
Production Companies
Otto Preminger Films
ORF
Cast
Jack Haley Jr.
as Self
Carol Lynley
as Self
James Stewart
as Self
John Saxon
as Self (archive footage)
Charles Laughton
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ken Howard
as Self
John Gielgud
as Self (archive footage)
Kathryn Grant
as actress 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Saul Bass
as Self
Lew Ayres
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Walter Pidgeon
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gregory Ratoff
as actor 'The Moon Is Blue' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Arnold Stang
as actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Diahann Carroll
as Vivian Thurlow (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lee Remick
as Laura Manion (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ossie Davis
as Self
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
as Self
Don Murray
as Self
William Holden
as Donald Gresham (archive footage) (uncredited)
Darren McGavin
as actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
David Niven
as actor 'Bonjour Tristesse' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eleanor Parker
as Zosch Machine (archive footage) (uncredited)
Johanna Matz
as Self
Josef Meinrad
as Self
George C. Scott
as Self
Judith Anderson
as actress 'Laura' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Erdman
as actor 'Stalag 17' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gene Tierney
as Laura Hunt (archive footage) (uncredited)
José Ferrer
as Self
Paul Ford
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hardy Krüger
as actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Clifton Webb
as actor 'Laura' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brooks West
as actor 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter Bogdanovich
as Self
Tom Tryon
as Self
Bruce Cabot
as actor 'In Harm's Way' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Noël Coward
as actor 'Bunny Lake Is Missing' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jean Seberg
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Widmark
as Self (archive footage)
Peter Lawford
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Otto Preminger
as Self (archive footage)
Burgess Meredith
as Narrator (voice)
Vincent Price
as Self
Dorothy Adams
as actress 'Laura' (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Grizzard
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Laurence Olivier
as Superintendent Newhouse (archive footage) (uncredited)
Raf Vallone
as actor 'The Cardinal' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry Fonda
Kim Novak
as Molly (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dana Andrews
as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Huston
as Glennon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael Caine
as Self
Deborah Kerr
as Self
Eve Arden
as Maida Rutledge (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Hooks
as actor 'Hurry Sundown' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Arthur O'Connell
as actor 'Anatomy of a Murder' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Franchot Tone
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Patricia Neal
as Self
Frank Sinatra
as Self
Richard Todd
as Self (archive footage)
Maggie McNamara
as actress 'The Moon Is Blue' (archive footage) (uncredited)