Irving Pichel Overview:

Director, Irving Pichel, was born on Jun 24, 1891 in Pittsburgh, PA. Pichel died at the age of 63 on Jul 13, 1954 in Hollywood, CA .

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Quicksand (1950, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 15, 2014 From The Stop Button

Quicksand is a film noir with room for cream and about five sugars. The genre often has a morality element to it, but this entry goes way too far with it. Or it might just be how the film treats lead Mickey Rooney. Most film noir male protagonists are overconfident simpletons taken in by devious wom... Read full article


The Most Dangerous Game (1932, Ernest B. Schoedsack and )

on Nov 12, 2012 From The Stop Button

Running about an hour, The Most Dangerous Game shouldn’t be boring. But it somehow manages. Worse, the boring stuff comes at the end; directors Schoedsack and Pichel drag out the conclusion with a false ending or two. The film doesn’t have much to recommend it. That laborious ending wipe... Read full article


O.S.S. (1946, )

on Mar 11, 2011 From The Stop Button

Pichel does such a good job with the majority of O.S.S., it’s a surprise how ineptly he handles the jingoistic last scene. It’s a WWII patriotism picture (is there a proper term for this genre?), so that last scene is requisite, but Pichel could have at least made it work. Instead, he ha... Read full article


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Irving Pichel Quotes:

Tony Sterling: Go jump in the lake!
Jake Bellow: Can't swim.


Huw Morgan: There is no fence nor hedge around time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember. So I can close my eyes on my valley as it is today, and it is gone, and I see it as it was when I was a boy. Green it was, and possessed of the plenty of the Earth. In all Wales, there was none so beautiful. Everything I ever learned as a small boy came from my father and I never found anything he ever told me to be wrong or worthless. The simple lessons he taught me are as sharp and clear in my mind as if I had heard them only yesterday. In those days, the black slag, the waste of the coal pits, had only begun to cover the sides of our hill. Not yet enough to mar the countryside, nor blacken the beauty of our village, for the colliery had only begun to poke its skinny black fingers through the green.


Huw Morgan: [Narrating] Memory... Strange that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed, and yet hold clear and bright the memory of what happened years ago; of men and women long since dead.


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Irving Pichel Facts
Graduate of Harvard

A close friend of playwright George S. Kaufman, Pichel also convinced veteran character actor Charles Lane to give acting a try. Together they went to Los Angeles and studied at the Pasadena Playhouse.

Discovered actress Natalie Wood

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