X-Nico

8 unusual facts about Otto Preminger


Gus Weill

An author of novels, plays, and poetry, Weill spent two years working for the producer Otto Preminger.

Jerry Berger

However, Berger struck up a close friendship with Otto Preminger, who once visited Berger, when the latter returned to St. Louis.

Joseph N. Welch

Welch played a criminal court judge in northern Michigan in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder (1959).

Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger (1905, Vyzhnytsia - 1986), a Bukovina-born Austrian Jewish American film director

The Human Factor

The Human Factor (ISBN 0-679-40992-0) is an espionage novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1978 and adapted into a 1979 film, directed by Otto Preminger using a screenplay by Tom Stoppard.

The Winter of Frankie Machine

"Frankie Machine" is the name of the card-dealing, heroin-addicted protagonist in Nelson Algren's 1949 novel, The Man With the Golden Arm, a role played by Frank Sinatra in the 1955 film directed by Otto Preminger.

Thranduil

In the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit, Thranduil is voiced by Otto Preminger.

William M. Packard

His plays include "The Killer Thing," directed by Otto Preminger, "Sandra and the Janitor," produced at the HB Playwrights Foundation, "The Funeral," "The Marriage," and "War Play," produced and directed by Gene Frankel.


Midi Minuit Fantastique

In later days, when acceptance of alternative canons of cinema had grown, Midi Minuit Fantastique sometimes dealt with more mainstream subject matter with profiles on Samuel Fuller, Otto Preminger or Federico Fellini.

What's the Matter with Helen?

The film began work under the title The Best of Friends, but Otto Preminger protested to the Motion Picture Association because he had registered the similar title Such Good Friends.


see also

Liebeskonzil

In 1994, in the case of Otto-Preminger-Institut v. Austria, the European Court of Human Rights held by 6 votes to 3 that the banning of the film was a justifiable limitation on the freedom of expression, because the film would offend Austrian Roman Catholics.

Subornation of perjury

The practice of ″horse shedding the witness″ (rehearsing testimony) is an example of such perjurious criminal conduct by an attorney, which is depicted in the true-crime novel Anatomy of a Murder (1958), by Robert Traver, and in the eponymous film (Otto Preminger, 1959), about a rape-and-murder case wherein are explored the ethical and legal problems inherent to the subornation of perjury.