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Otto Preminger made his name withLaura, perhaps the most gracefully
restrained film noir ever made and the first in a series of cool,
elegant thrillers. When he left the studios to become his own
producer, he tackled a series of projects deliberately chosen
to provoke controversy, yet presented in the same sober, removed
manner. His best films explore the complexities and contradictions
of characters (often ambitiously huge casts) caught up in volatile
situations--from party politics to World War II--with stylistic
restraint and a probing intelligence. Ironically, the Viennese-born
director of Jewish descent remains best known to many for his
gloriously hammy performance as a Nazi officer in Billy Wilder's
Stalag 17.
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