Burgess Meredith hosts this revealing look at the life and work of one of the most prolific and controversial of filmmakers, Otto Preminger. This documentary features interviews with many of the stars, and some of the behind-the-scene players, who worked with the mercurial producer/director from theatre to movies, over the nearly fifty years of his remarkable career in show business. The special traces his story back to his home town of Vienna and his emigration to America, where he scored immediate critical and box-office success on Broadway, which led him to Hollywood. His time making films is best broken down between the "studio years" and "independent years". An "A" list in Hollywood, Preminger made 10 films for Fox before leaving the studop to become one of the first independent producer-directors in the movie business. The independent years brought an out-pouring of daring, controversial films. Standing up to the motion picture establishment, he broke taboos of censorship and le
