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Sergei Ratov
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1948
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Based on a play and novel by Margaret Kennedy, Escape Me Never is a remake of the same-named 1935 British film. Largely set...
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Prof. Heinrich
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1947
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Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with...
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1947
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The troublesome years "between the wars" provide the backdrop for the romantic drama The Searching Wind. Adapted by Lillian...
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Count von Stammer
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1946
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In many ways, the history of the cautionary fable Strange Holiday is more fascinating than the film itself. Written and...
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1945
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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1944
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In this drama, set during WW II, a teacher at a military school is derided by his students because he has not joined the...
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Dr. Carl Hesser
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1943
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1943
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Prof. Jean Perot
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1943
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1943
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The surrealistic opening sequence, featuring a WW2 calendar as written "by A. Hitler", should be indication enough that Once...
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Marshal Borelski
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1942
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Better known as Reunion in France, this women's-magazine-style romantic melodrama was the first major production for director...
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Gen. Hugo Schroeder
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1942
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In this, one of many World War II propaganda films of the early 1940s, Errol Flynn is one of five RAF pilots to survive a...
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1942
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The innovative direction of Robert Siodmak lifts the inexpensive imitation-Hitchcock Fly By Night well above the ordinary....
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Dr. Storm
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1942
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Universal's "Invisible Man" series does its bit for the war effort in this slyly tongue-in-cheek action melodrama. Jon Hall...
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1942
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A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan...
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1941
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Also released as The Great Awakening, New Wine purports to recreate an incident in the life of Austrian composer Franz...
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Beethoven
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1941
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1941
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In this German drama, a French military officer finds himself discriminated against during a trial because he is Jewish. ~...
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1940
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Edward G. Robinson portrays real-life German medical researcher Paul Erlich, the man who discovered and perfected "Formula...
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1940
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Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he...
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Father Julius Nieuwland
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1940
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As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on...
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Franz Geller
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1940
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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Van Meer
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1940
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Dorothy Lamour once again wraps a variety of alluring costumes around her hourglass frame in the Paramount bread-and-butter...
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Basil Renner
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1940
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Letzte Liebe (Last Love) is a vehicle for Japanese-born singing favorite Mitchiko Meini, whose marriage to a wealthy Austrian...
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1935
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1933
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A Certain Mr. Gran is the English-language title of this fast-paced espionage drama. Things literally start with a bang when...
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1933
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The pressbook for Kadetten (Cadets) claims that the film was written by Dr. Alfred Schirokauer, "after motives of a novel...
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1932
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Zum Goldnen Anker (The Golden Anchor) was the German-language version of the Marcel Pagnol masterpiece Marius. Jakob Tiedtke...
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1932
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Counsellor Ringius
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1931
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The directorial career of Robert Siodmak continue to gain momentum with his third solo effort, Voruntersuchung (Inquest) When...
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1931
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Count Hollweg
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1931
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H.H. Evers' best-selling science fiction novel Alraune was the source for this chilling German fantasy. The story is set in...
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Privy Councillor ten Brinken
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1930
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In this drama, an experimental researcher plays with gene splicing. In one experiment, he artificially inseminates a...
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1930
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1930
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Napoleon auf St. Helena was the next-to-last film of director Lupu-Pick, who died by his own hand in 1931. Werner Krauss is a...
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1929
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1923
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While he was working in his native Germany, Ernst Lubitsch directed a number of historical pictures -- although this one is...
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1922
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1922
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