In Harm’s Way

#25 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. I’m actually quite surprised that I didn’t connect with this film, but, in retrospect, it makes sense to me. Adapted from another novel, this time by James Bassett, In Harm’s Way is a large scale WWII film filled with movie stars, purportedly about Pearl Harbor that sees…

The Cardinal

#13 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. You don’t often see the biopic issues in a fictional film about a fictional man, but Otto Preminger’s adaptation of Henry Morton Robinson’s novel (which is admittedly loosely based on the life of Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman) does exactly that. Concerned with bringing large sections of the…

Advise and Consent

#6 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. Otto Preminger really had a thing for novels surrounding processes, especially rules-based processes, didn’t he? After Anatomy of a Murder’s look at the intricate details of a murder trial, he focuses in on Senate procedures around an unusually timed vote. Based on the novel by Allen Drury,…

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Exodus

#20 in my ranking of Otto Preminger's films. The grand epic of the founding of Israel, based on the novel by Leon Uris and adapted by Dalton Trumbo, Otto Preminger’s Exodus has a fun little story around its premiere. Three hours into the three-and-a-half hour film, Mort Sahl stood up and cried, “Otto Preminger, let…