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Ewald André Dupont (25 December 1891, Zeitz, Saxony, Germany – 12 December 1956, Hollywood) was a German film director, one of the founders of the German film industry. He was frequently credited as E. A. Dupont.
A newspaper columnist in 1916, Dupont became a screenwriter and began directing his own crime-story scripts in 1918. After several successes in his native Germany in silent films, he worked in London and in Hollywood, California. One of his greatest successes was the silent film Varieté (1925). This film, about an ex-trapeze artist, was noted for its innovative camerawork with highly expressive movement through space, accomplished by the prolific expressionist cinematographer Karl Freund. Varieté even did well in the United States, screening for 12 weeks at New York's Rialto Theatre. Dupont's success was noticed by Carl Laemmle at Universal, who offered Dupont a lucrative contract. His first project was Love Me and the World Is Mine in the early summer of 1926, which ran well over budget ($350,000) and was not a success.
His film Piccadilly (1929), a late silent, is noted for the central performance of the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong. Atlantic (also 1929) is seen as one of the most innovative uses of sound film technology available at the time.
After his successes in the UK, Dupont returned to Hollywood in 1933, though he directed only a handful of films after 1939.
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10 October 1923
A gypsy dancer becomes involved with some smugglers in Spain.
15 May 1936
Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good luck charm.
08 January 1931
William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen.
21 November 1930
This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).
28 October 1929
German-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic".
31 July 1936
A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.
13 September 1935
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned.
26 September 1927
In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two men; the first is a dashing young army officer who can provide blazing romance and little long-time security.
01 January 1920
A middle-class man falls in love with a woman from a more ordinary background, and they end up working in a variety act where they sink into alcoholism.
08 July 1939
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution.
15 November 1929
English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic".
15 September 1930
German language version of Two Worlds.
12 September 1921
"The Bear Joseph", so named because of a fight with a bear, is rescued by Wally, a farmer's daughter, from a dangerous situation in a vulture's nest.
06 April 1951
A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
24 March 1918
A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.
03 December 1937
The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company.
21 May 1937
Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family.
01 March 1956
A lawyer tries to exact justice on a woman he defended in court -- a woman whom he found out was guilty after getting her off.
13 January 1918
A doctor who believes that only the immoral catch syphilis reconsiders his stance.
07 March 1918
Woman doesn't let the man know whether he is the father of the child.
19 June 1953
A scientist develops a formula which will cause animals to regress to the form of their primitive ancestors, and tries it on himself with disastrous results.
25 September 1933
Lighthearted comedy film following the (mis)adventures of four gold diggers.
01 February 1929
A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.
14 August 1931
Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love.
01 August 1927
The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard.
01 June 1951
A documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors.
03 April 1931
Bored with her life with her husband the lighthouse keeper, Hélène sleeps with two other men who fight for her.
09 October 1953
Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII.
21 February 1933
Focuses on a love triangle between three German athletes competing at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
21 March 1932
When the wealthy Mr. Pitt decides to withdraw a sum in the millions, the Schilling & Co. bank faces ruin.
21 March 1928
An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter's fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she with him.
01 January 1919
James Mistoll, one of the owners of a factory, and working on a process to turn copper ore into radium, falls from a window on the fourth floor and dies; This was no accident, but a murder.
30 June 1955
Director William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and Valentina Cortese.
18 November 1917
A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband.
24 January 1919
A detective falls for a Japanese girl living with her uncle and cousin. When the girl's uncle is murdered, the detective must find out who killed him.
30 June 1954
There's something to be said for finishing what you've started. That's why the gentile Captain Long John Silver is heading back to Treasure Island to see if he can unearth the cache of riches buried there by his colleague, Captain Flint.
26 September 1930
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
16 November 1925
Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
26 June 1924
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.
07 April 1953
A medical student learns about a scheme to drug a girl and pass her off as an heiress to an oil fortune.
29 October 1923
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.
30 August 1918
Attorney General Trevor's second wife is found stabbed to death in his safe. Due to a ring with the initials DG, which is also found in the safe, the suspicion initially falls on Donald Gordon, the fiancé of Trevor's daughter.
01 April 1925
Toni wants to become an opera-singer. Her mother was once simple chanteuse. Toni marries the brutal industrialist Liesegang.
25 January 1918
A bored princess' flights of fancy cause troubles for the entire household, especially her husband.
27 August 1937
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.
28 July 1930
An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
16 April 1920
Film by Paul Leni and Felix Basch
