Cy Endfield.

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Cy Endfield, a blacklisted American director living in exile in England? Anyone know why.

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Ray63,

He was a victim of the anti-communist witch-hunts of Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy.

'Jimu

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Thanks Jim, was it to do with a film he directed...

Subject: Re: Cy Endfield. Thu May 09, 2013 10:48 pm

Ray, he exiled himself. He up-set Hollywood, and he couldn't get any work, so he came to England. I think the film that caused the up-set was called "Noir"

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Quote :: "The New York Times film critic, Bosley Crowther, panned the film, writing "Although Mr. Endfield has directed the violent climatic scenes with a great deal of sharp visualization of mass hysteria and heat, conveying a grim impression of the nastiness of a mob, he has filmed the rest of the picture in a conventional melodramatic style. Neither the script nor the numerous performances are of a distinctive quality.Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton, in a work on American film noir, wrote that "the prison assault remains one of the most brutal sequences in postwar American cinema."

» why the inaccuracies Mr Baker/ Mr Endfield