An Interview with Silent Film Composer
Ekkehard Wölk
from
Silent Era
Ekkehard Wölk
from
Silent Era
1940 | ||
The Letter | William Wyler | 1940 |
The Mortal Storm | Stuart Heissler | 1940 |
Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | 1940 |
They drive by night | Raoul Walsh | 1940 |
1941 | ||
Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
High Sierra | Raoul Walsh | 1941 |
Hold back the down | Mitchell Leisen | 1941 |
Little Foxes | William Wyler | 1941 |
The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | 1941 |
Man Hunt | Fritz Lang | 1941 |
Meet John Doe | Frank Capra | 1941 |
1942 | ||
Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | 1942 |
The Hard Way | Vincent Sherman | 1942 |
Ossessione | Luchino Visconti | 1942 |
1943 | ||
Hangmen also die! | Fritz Lang | 1943 |
Shadow of a doubt | Alfred Hitchcock | 1943 |
Seventh victim | Mark Robson | 1943 |
1944 | ||
Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | 1944 |
Gaslight | George Cukor | 1944 |
Laura | Otto Preminger | 1944 |
Ministry of Fear | Fritz Lang | 1944 |
Phantom Lady | Robert Sodmak | 1944 |
The Woman in the window | Fritz Lang | 1944 |
1945 | ||
Detour | Edgar Ulmer | 1945 |
Leave her to heaven | John M. Stahl | 1945 |
The lost weekend | Billy Wilder | 1945 |
Mildred pierce | Michael Curtiz | 1945 |
The picture of Dorian Gray | Albert Lewin | 1945 |
Scarlet Street | Fritz Lang | 1945 |
Spellbound | Alfred Hitchcock | 1945 |
The Strange affair of Uncle Harry | Robert Siodmak | 1945 |
1946 | ||
The Big Sleep | Howard Hawks | 1946 |
The Chase | Arthur Ripley | 1946 |
Gilda | Charles Vidor | 1946 |
Humeresque | Jean Negulesco | 1946 |
The Killers | Robert Sodmak | 1946 |
Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 |
The Postman always rings twice | Tay Garnett | 1946 |
1947 | ||
Body & Soul | Robert Rossen | 1947 |
Brighton Rock | John Boulting | 1947 |
Crossfire | Edward Dmytryk | 1947 |
Daisy Kenyon | Otto Preminger | 1947 |
It always rains on Sunday | Robert Hamer | 1947 |
Kiss of death | Henry Hathaway | 1947 |
The Lost moment | Martin GabeL | 1947 |
Out of the past | Jacques Tourneur | 1947 |
Pursued | Raoul Walsh | 1947 |
Quai des orfevers | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1947 |
They Made me a fugitive | Alberto Cavalcanti | 1947 |
1948 | ||
Act of violence | Fred Zinnemann | 1948 |
The Fallen idol | Carol Reed | 1948 |
Force of Evil | Abraham Polonsky | 1948 |
Key Largo | John Huston | 1948 |
Lady from Shanghai | Orson Welles | 1948 |
The Naked City | Jules Dassin | 1948 |
Raw Deal | Anthony Mann | 1948 |
Snake Pit | Anatole Litvak | 1948 |
1949 | ||
A ll the king's men | Robert Rossen | 1949 |
Caught | Max Ophuls | 1949 |
Criss Cross | Robert Sodmak | 1949 |
Portrait Of Jennie | William Dieterle | 1949 |
The Reckless Moment | Max Ophuls | 1949 |
They live by night | Nicholas Ray | 1949 |
Third man | Carol Reed | 1949 |
White Heat | Raoul Walsh | 1949 |
1950 | ||
The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | 1950 |
D. O. A | Rudolph Maté | 1950 |
Gun Crazy | Joseph H. Lewis | 1950 |
In a lonely place | Nicholas Ray | 1950 |
Night and the city | Jules Dassin | 1950 |
No man of her own | Mitchell Leisen | 1950 |
Sunset Blvd. | Billy Wilder | 1950 |
1951 | ||
Ace in the hole | Billy Wilder | 1951 |
M | Joseph Losey | 1951 |
A Place in the sun | George Stevens | 1951 |
Prowler | Joseph Losey | 1951 |
Strangers on a train | Alfred Hitchcock | 1951 |
1952 | ||
Angel Face | Otto Preminger | 1952 |
1953 | ||
Big Heat | Fritz Lang | 1953 |
Pickup on south street | Sam Fuller | 1953 |
1954 | ||
Beat the devil | John Huston | 1954 |
Suddenly | Lewis Allen | 1954 |
1955 | ||
The big Combo | Joseph H. Lewis | 1955 |
Les Diabolique | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1955 |
House of Bamboo | Sam Fuller | 1955 |
Kiss me deadly | Robert Aldrich | 1955 |
The Man with the golden arm | Otto Preminger | 1955 |
Mr. Arkadin | Orson Welles | 1955 |
The Night of the hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 |
Riffifi | Jules Dassin | 1955 |
1956 | ||
Bigger than life | Nicholas Ray | 1956 |
Bob la flombouer | Jean Pierre Melville | 1956 |
The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | 1956 |
1957 | ||
Baby Face Nelson | Don Siegel | 1957 |
A Face in the crowd | Elia Kazan | 1957 |
The Wrong Man | Alfred Hitchcock | 1957 |
1958 | ||
Touch of evil | Orson Welles | 1958 |
Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 |
1959 | ||
Odds against tomorrow | Robert Wise | 1959 |
Each time he began a sentence he revealed a wayward set of teeth. The set of his jaw irresistibly evoked the rictus of a spirited cadaver, the final expression of a melancholy man who would fade away with a smile. That is indeed the smile of death.
Segments from André Bazin's enlightening piece on Humphrey Bogart, written at the time of actor's passing for Cahiers du Cinema. This is translated by Phillip Drummond for an anthology of Cahiers articles, published in 4 volumes by Harvard University Press, 1985.