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| Carol
Reed |
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| Director
/ Producer |
| 1906 - 1976 |
| Born December 30,
London, England |
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Production Country: UK |
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Genres: Drama, Spy Film, Childhood Drama |
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Collaborators: Ralph
Richardson (Leading Player), Graham Greene (Screenwriter), Vincent Korda
(Production Designer), Margaret Lockwood (Leading Player), Rex Harrison (Leading Player), Oswald Morris
(Cinematographer), Robert Krasker (Cinematographer), Bert Bates
(Editor), Oswald Hafenrichter (Editor), William Alwyn (Composer) |
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Highly Recommended: The
Third Man (1949) |
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Recommended: Odd
Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948) |
| Worth
a Look:
The Stars Look Down (1939), Night Train to Munich (1940), Outcast of the Islands (1951),
Oliver! (1968) |
| Links:
[
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [ Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[
Screen Online Biography ] [
Carol Reed Website
] [ Derek
Malcom's Century of Films ] [
BritMovie Biography ] [
British Film
Institute Feature (2006) ] |
| Books:
[
Carol
Reed: A Biography ] [ The
Films of Carol Reed ] [
Carol Reed (British Film Makers) ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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| 1,000
Greatest Films: Odd
Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948),
The
Third Man (1949) |
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250 Quintessential Noir Films:
The Third Man (1949) |
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"Directing
a number of skilled dramas with excellent actors, Carol Reed
created films that are rich in atmosphere and milieu. Most of
Carol Reed's successes were literary adaptations with complex
lead characters...Reed once commented: "I give the public what I
like, and hope they will like it too." -
Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006) |
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"Once deemed a
major British director, Sir Carol Reed was in fact a competent
craftsman who hit his peak during a brief period at the end of
the '40s with three consecutive literary adaptations. Even in
his best work, however, his penchant for unusually angled shots
and Expressionist lighting can seem studied and irrelevant." - Geoff
Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989) |
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"It
was in the first few years after the war that Reed revealed
himself: Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, and The
Third Man were three winners in a row - with directing
nominations for the latter two, and a knighthood in 1952...But
then Reed ran out of steam, or need." -
David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002) |
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"Subtle studies of the working class (The Stars Look Down,
39) led to more complex thrillers filmed in a realist vein (Odd
Man Out, 47; The Third Man, 49). The films of Reed's
final period tend to suffer from his inability to balance the
tonal elements in his scripts." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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"All I
believe the director can do is to approach his subject with a
meticulously prepared list of scenes to be shot with their
general description and the dialogue entailed in each, and an
absolutely clear idea of the effect he wants to achieve." -
Carol Reed |
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