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Image Not Available Director: Edgar G Ulmer, Edward Sampson, John Ireland, Rudolph Mate Dvd Release: 3rd February, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Box set, Black & White, Full Screen, PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Film director Edgar G Ulmer is mostly remembered for the movies The Black Cat & Detour. These stylish & eccentric works have achieved cult status, but Ulmers other films remain relatively unknown. Ulmer was born September 17, 1914 in in Vienna, Austria he worked as a stage actor & set designer while studying architecture & philosophy before becoming a direcor. He set designed for Max Reinhardts theater, served his apprenticeship with F W Murnau & worked with collaborators including Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann & Eugen Schüftan. He emigrated to Hollywood in the early 30s, working as a writer & as an art director. In 1933, Ulmer signed to Universal Pictures as a director, making his debut with The Black Cat, starring Bela Lugosi & Boris Karloff. after an early success at Universal with The Black Cat, Ulmer, for both personal reasons & a desire for creative independence, left the major studios behind.

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Rudolph Maté was an accomplished cinematographer & film director. Born in Kraków, Poland, Maté started in the film business after gratuating from the University of Budapest. He went on to work as an assistant cameraman in Hungary & later throughout Europe, sometimes with noted lensman Karl Freund. In 1928 Maté worked on the The Passion of Joan of Arc which lead to him being hired as director of photography in a number of prominent films. Rudolph Maté began working on Hollywood films in the mid 1930s. In 1947, he turned to directing films including When Worlds Collide & the film noir classic DOA.. Rudolph Maté at the Internet Movie Database. Posters Of Doa

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