Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and
controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a
shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the
Cinema of Resistance, J. E. Smyth reveals the intellectual passion
behind some of the most powerful films ever made about the rise and
resistance to fascism and the legacy of the Second World War, from
The Seventh Cross and The Search to High Noon, From Here to
Eternity, and Julia. Smyth's book is the first to draw upon
Zinnemann's extensive papers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences and brings Fred Zinnemann's vision, voice, and film
practice to life. In his engagement with the defining historical
struggles of the twentieth century, Zinnemann fought his own
battles with the Hollywood studio system, the critics, and a public
bent on forgetting. Zinnemann's films explore the role of women and
communists in the antifascist resistance, the West's support of
Franco after the Spanish Civil War, and the darker side of
America's national heritage. Smyth reconstructs a complex and
conflicted portrait of Zinnemann's cinema of resistance, examining
his sketches, script annotations, editing and production notes, and
personal letters. Illustrated with seventy black-and-white images
from Zinnemann's collection, Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of
Resistance discusses the director's professional and personal
relationships with Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift, Audrey Hepburn,
Vanessa Redgrave, and Gary Cooper; the critical reaction to his
revisionist Western, High Noon; his battles over the censorship of
From Here to Eternity, The Nun's Story, and Behold a Pale Horse;
his unrealized history of the communist Revolution in China, Man's
Fate; and the controversial study of political assassination, The
Day of the Jackal. In this intense, richly textured narrative,
Smyth enters the mind of one of Hollywood's master directors,
redefining our knowledge of his artistic vision and practice.
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