He has directed dramas such as George Washington, All the Real Girls, and Snow Angels, as well
as the thriller Undertow, all of which he wrote or co-wrote.
Where the Sidewalk Ends is a crackling
thriller / procedural, abounding in screenwriter Ben Hecht's characteristically punchy dialogue and Preminger's viscerally, velvety, elegantly intricate long takes, though there's also,
as in all of Preminger's noirs, a subtextual
undertow.