Don Siegel

...was happening. But the film's producers at Allied Artists found the scene unnerving (damn right, says we) and requested that director Don Siegel add a happy ending where a lucky coincidence pokes a hole in the aliens' cover and (maybe) saves...

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...the Picnic breakthrough). Set in Reno, this casino-knockoff caper anticipated the original Ocean's 11 by five years. Plus: Don Siegel's toughie The Lineup (1958; the future Dirty Harry director crisply spins off the TV cop show that was...

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...a crazed-killer tale with Adolph Menjou and Marie Windsor, and a personal favorite, "The Lineup" (1958), directed by the no-nonsense Don Siegel and featuring Eli Wallach as a lunatic hit man. "The Lineup" was based on the TV series of the...

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...a placid suburban domestic scene with a wall-rattling car-bomb explosion. The Big Heat doesn't spare the blood, scars, or bruises. Don Siegel's 1958 procedural The Lineup has its origins in a radio and TV series, and for roughly its first...

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...best and worst aliens-are-among-us movies: "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956): Even after several remakes, this black-and-white Don Siegel chiller retains the creeptastic crown. Paranoia grips small town Santa Mira, Calif., after...

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...University of Illinois at Chicago, he received his PhD in 1972 from Northwestern University. His dissertation was on film director Don Siegel (Dirty Harry), which began a long friendship. Kaminsky taught in the new film program at...

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...genre. Filmed on location. Director: Edward Dmytryk. </p><p> •<strong>“Lineup” </strong>(1958): A spinoff of a TV show, this Don Siegel-directed effort follows murderous sociopath Eli Wallach as he tries to track down a...

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...in 1959. In 1972, he received a doctorate in film studies from Northwestern University, writing his dissertation on the director Don Siegel. Joining the Northwestern faculty, Dr. Kaminsky taught film there until 1989. Afterward, he was...

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...and as for The Big Heat, I know it has a big reputation, but I've always found Fritz Lang's direction too showy and shoving. The Don Siegel movie that I've most wanted to see and has eluded my detective efforts is Baby Face Nelson, starring...

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...Florida State University, also wrote nonfiction books on actor-director Clint Eastwood and film directors Ingmar Bergman, John Huston and Don Siegel. Kaminsky supplied the dialogue for Sergio Leone's gangland epic "Once Upon a Time in...

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