Otto KrugerFilmography

Perry Mason: The Case of the Missing Button

Synopsis: Season eight of Perry Mason begins with Perry (Raymond Burr) in the middle of a natsy child-custody battle between divorcing couple Janice and Dirk Blake (Julie Adams, Ed Nelson). The child in question is the Blakes' five-year-old daughter Button (Claire Wilcox), who has just inherited a Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Devious Delinquent

Synopsis: Wealthy Timothy Balfour Sr. (Otto Kruger) draws up a new will leaving a great deal of money to his namesake grandson Tim (John Washbrook), but the lad may not be worthy of such an honor. Well on the way to becoming a full-fledged "J.D.", Tim is shaken down by hoodlum crony Chick Montana (David Read More

Kohlhiesels Tochter

Actors: Liselotte Pulver, Helmut Schmidt, Dietmar Schoenherr, Peter Vogel, Heinrich Gretler

Synopsis: This light comedy by Axel von Ambesser was preceded by two other cinematic versions of the same tale, a story about two twins who live in the countryside and are quite opposite in their appeal. Liesel (Liselotte Pulver, who plays both twins) is attractive, smart, and captivating while Susi is not. Read More

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Walter Slezak, Barbara Eden, Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, Buddy Hackett

Synopsis: This long, 135-minute feature is divided into four different segments, three highlighting fairy tales and the first introducing the two Brothers Grimm. Wilhelm (Laurence Harvey) is the dreamer, and Jacob (Karl Boehm) is the practical one, and between them, some marvelous fairy tales develop. Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Counterfeit Crank

Synopsis: After he is seen literally throwing his money away, eccentric businessman Gus Dalgran (Otto Kruger) is locked up in a mental instution. Dalgran's far from loyal employees decide to use his absence as an opportunty to double-cross him, whereupon he escapes--and then things really get out of hand! Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather

Synopsis: Wealthy J.J. Gideon (Otto Kruger) disapproves of the romance between his grandson David (Karl Held) and David's secretary Dorine (Patricia Barry). As it happens, Gideon has good reason to be upset: Dorine is a duplicitous golddigger who swindles David out of $10,000, claiming that she needs it to Read More

Cash McCall

Actors: James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: In this routine business-story-cum-romantic-comedy, James Garner is Cash McCall, a wheeling and dealing tycoon, and Natalie Wood is Lory Austen, the daughter of failing businessman Grant (Dean Jagger). McCall's expertise lies in acquiring businesses about to go belly up, attaching them to Read More

The Young Philadelphians

Actors: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, Brian Keith, Diane Brewster

Synopsis: Something of an urbanized, upscale version of Peyton Place, Vincent Sherman's
The Young Philadelphians is a glossy adaptation of Richard Powell's bestselling novel
The Philadelphians that revels in melodrama. The film opens strongly, with a lengthy 1924 prologue. Socialite Kate Lawrence Read More

The Colossus of New York

Actors: Ross Martin, Mala Powers, Charles Herbert, Otto Kruger, John Baragrey

Synopsis: This low-budget, Frankenstein-flavored sci-fi flick involves the transplantation of a dead scientist's brain into the body of a hulking, glowing-eyed, caped robot by the man's lunatic brother. Though initially a success, the operation soon goes horribly wrong as the robot begins to display Read More

The Last Command

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ernest Borgnine, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: The Republic super-production The Last Command is a partial remake of the same studio's Man of Conquest (1939). But whereas the earlier film concerned itself with the exploits of Texas patriot Sam Houston, Last Command concentrates on Houston associate James Bowie, played by Sterling Hayden. When Read More

Black Widow

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner

Synopsis: Broadway producer Peter Denver (Van Heflin) takes in young actress Nanny Ordway (Peggy Ann Garner) while his wife (Gene Tierney) is out of town. When Nancy is found murdered in his penthouse apartment, the two prime suspects are Peter and the neglected husband (Reginald Gardiner) of temperamental Read More

Magnificent Obsession

Actors: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel Magnificent Obsession is in its own way as successful as the first (filmed in 1935) in glossing over the plot holes and logic gaps in the original novel. Rock Hudson plays Bob Merrick, a reckless playboy who is indirectly responsible Read More

High Noon

Actors: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon with his new Quaker bride, Amy (Grace Kelly). But his happiness is short-lived when he is informed that the Miller gang, whose leader (Ian McDonald) Will had arrested, is Read More

The Black Widow

Synopsis: Vernon Sewell, a mercurial filmmaker who preferred to lens his pictures on chunks of his own property, was the director of Black Widow. We don't know which of Sewell's real estate holdings served as the locale for this amnesia meller. We can, however, tell you that the film was inspired by the BBC Read More

Payment on Demand

Actors: Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Jane Cowl, Kent Taylor, Betty Lynn, Frances Dee

Synopsis: Just before filming All About Eve, Bette Davis starred in the marital melodrama Payment on Demand. Davis plays the wife of Barry Sullivan, who one fine morning demands a divorce. Most of the film is in flashback, recounting the events leading up to the marital schism. After Sullivan takes up with Frances Dee Read More

Lights Out: The Man With the Watch

Valentino

Actors: Anthony Dexter, Eleanor Parker, Richard Carlson, Patricia Medina, Dona Drake, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: One of the most notorious flops in the history of Columbia Pictures, Valentino is actually fairly entertaining -- but only when regarded as a work of fiction. In dramatizing the life of silent-screen Latin lover Rudolph Valentino, screenwriter George Bruce ignored virtually all of the facts, even Read More

711 Ocean Drive

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Don Porter, Sammy White, Otto Kruger, Dorothy Patrick

Synopsis: Edmond O'Brien plays a telephone repairman whose electronic savvy earns him a job with a bookmaking concern. O'Brien's bookie boss Barry Kelly wants to get instant results from the nation's racetracks, and to this end O'Brien illicitly plugs into several communication centers. The wealthier O'Brien Read More

Lulu Belle

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, George Montgomery, Albert Dekker, Otto Kruger, Glenda Farrell

Synopsis: In this musical drama set at the turn-of-the-century, a saloon singer marries a wealthy attorney and then begins fooling around with a series of lovers, including a boxier, his manager, and a powerful owner of a railroad who takes her to New York where she becomes a Broadway star. Unfortunately Read More

Smart Woman

Actors: Iris Adrian, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Willie Best, Lee Bonnell

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, two opposing lawyers lead a double life. In the courtroom they are ruthless toward each other, but once the day is over they become passionate lovers. Unfortunately their newest case may well threaten their relationship as the defense attorney is defending a corrupt Read More

Love and Learn

Actors: Jack Carson, Robert Hutton, Martha Vickers, Janis Paige, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: Jack Carson and Robert Hutton make a curious but copacetic comedy duo in the Warner Bros. musical Love and Learn. The stars are cast as Jingles and Bob, a pair of would-be songwriters hoping to get a break on Broadway. Along comes Barbara Wyngate (Martha Vickers), a wealthy young woman who hopes Read More

The Fabulous Suzanne

Actors: Barbara Britton, Rudy Vallee, Otto Kruger, Richard Denning

Synopsis: Barbara Britton is as cute as can be as the title character in Republic's The Fabulous Suzanne. The plot, which bears a faint resemblance to MGM's She Went to the Races, concerns a young hashhouse waitress who picks winning horses by randomly jabbing a pin into her racing form. Accumulating a tidy Read More

Duel in the Sun

Actors: Griff Barnett, Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Charles Bickford, Joseph Cotten, Sidney Blackmer, Lionel Barrymore, Harry Carey, Lillian Gish

Synopsis: In David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, Jennifer Jones stars as Pearl Chavez, whom everyone has tagged as a "bad girl" foredoomed to an unhappy end. She is taken into the home of wealthy, greedy rancher McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his kindly wife Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), who'd once been the Read More

Escape in the Fog

Synopsis: In this thriller, a nurse begins having strange premonitions about an impending murder. So strong is her intuition that she soon begins searching for the intended victim to try and save him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Chicago Kid

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Otto Kruger, Tom Powers, Lynne Roberts

Synopsis: Bantam-sized Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to Jimmy Cagney, essays another Cagneyesque role in The Chicago Kid. The star plays Joe Ferrill, whose efforts to raise enough money so that his imprisoned father can live comfortably upon release come to naught when the elder Ferrill dies behind Read More

On Stage Everybody

Actors: Peggy Ryan, Jack Oakie, Julie London

Synopsis: Jack Oakie and Peggy Ryan head the cast of the Universal "B plus" musical On Stage Everybody. As indicated by the title, this is a "Let's put on a big show" affair, set this time at a radio station. Veteran vaudevillian Michael Sullivan (Jack Oakie) refuses to admit that his brand of entertainment Read More

The Woman Who Came Back

Actors: John Loder, Nancy Kelly, Otto Kruger, Ruth Ford, Harry Tyler

Synopsis: For at least 63 of its 68 minutes, Republic's The Woman Who Came Back is an exciting and compelling journey into the realm of the supernatural. Returning to her ancestral New England village, Lorna Webster (Nancy Kelly) slowly but surely becomes convinced that she's the reincarnation of a Read More

Earl Carroll Vanities

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Constance Moore, Eve Arden, Otto Kruger, Alan Mowbray

Synopsis: Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). Read More

Jungle Captive

Actors: Otto Kruger, Amelita Ward, Phil Brown, Rondo Hatton

Synopsis: Universal concluded their shoestring "Ape Woman" trilogy (beginning with Captive Wild Woman and continuing with Jungle Woman) with this passable installment, though without the participation of the sultry Acquanetta. Vicky Lane assays the role of the human-ape creature -- who died at the end of Read More

The Great John L.

Actors: Greg McClure, Linda Darnell, Barbara Britton, J.M. Kerrigan, Lee Sullivan, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: Greg McClure stars as legendary boxer John L. Sullivan in this screen biography of the famous fighter. Known as "The Boston Strong Boy," Sullivan was a bare-knuckle brawler who rose from humble circumstances to become the world's heavyweight champion from 1882 to 1892. While Sullivan was a skilled Read More

Wonder Man

Actors: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, S.Z. Sakall, Donald Woods, Steve Cochran

Synopsis: Danny Kaye plays the first of his cinematic dual roles in Goldwyn's Wonder Man. Kaye appears as timid librarian Edwin Dingle and Edwin's extroverted twin brother, nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew. When Buzzy witnesses a gangland shooting, he himself is rubbed out by mob boss Ten-Grand Jackson (Steve Cochran Read More

Knickerbocker Holiday

Actors: Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling, Shelley Winters, Ernest Cossart, Johnnie Davis, Percy Kilbride

Synopsis: The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of Read More

Murder, My Sweet

Actors: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki

Synopsis: One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as Phillip Marlowe, the hard-boiled private detective antihero created by novelist Raymond Chandler. Hired by hulking, psychotic Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) to locate Moose's Read More

Cover Girl

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers, Jinx Falkenburg, Otto Kruger, Eve Arden

Synopsis: Thanks to its Jerome Kern/Ira Gershwin/Yip Harburg score and the luminescence of stars Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly, Cover Girl has taken on a legendary status in recent years. In truth, the film has a banal and predictable premise: a chorus girl (Hayworth) is given a chance for stardom by a Read More

They Live in Fear

Synopsis: In this drama, a refugee escapes the Nazis and comes to America, but he cannot enjoy his new life because he is worried about the family he left behind. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Storm over Lisbon

Actors: Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, Erich Von Stroheim, Otto Kruger, Eduardo Ciannelli

Synopsis: Leonard Maltin once observed that Storm Over Lisbon is what Casablanca would have looked like had it been produced by Republic instead of Warner Bros. This wartime meller reunites the cast and director of the successful Republic melodrama Lady and the Monster, with less than successful results. Read More

Power of the Press

Actors: Guy Kibbee, Gloria Dickson, Lee Tracy, Victor Jory

Synopsis: What happens when "freedom of the press" is abused in wartime? In Power of the Press, the consequences are nearly catastrophic. Otto Kruger plays ruthless newspaper publisher Howard Rankin, who uses his journalistic privileges to destroy his political enemies. When the usual methods of character Read More

Corregidor

Actors: Otto Kruger, Elissa Landi, Donald Woods, Frank Jenks, Rick Vallin

Synopsis: Outdistancing all competing studios, tiny PRC managed to register the title Corregidor for copyright within hours after the surrender of the Allied forces at the real-life Corregidor. PRC even ponied up the money to commission a poem specially written for the film by the great Alfred Noyes. The Read More

Tarzan's Desert Mystery

Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield, Otto Kruger, Joe Sawyer

Synopsis: During WWII, Johnny Weissmuller and his Tarzan character proved useful for Allied propaganda purposes. In the film Tarzan Triumphs, the plot had the ape man fighting Nazis in Africa. In Tarzan's Desert Mystery, released at the height of the war in 1943, he is once again battling Brownshirts in the Read More

Allotment Wives, Inc.

Actors: Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael, Teala Loring

Synopsis: In her final film appearance, Kay Francis plays Sheila, the slinky, seductive mastermind of a marriage racket preying on ex-servicemen. Sheila's stable of "brides" marry homecoming GIs for their military allotment pay, then dump their hubbies and abscond with the dough. Trouble brews when Sheila's Read More

Stage Door Canteen

Actors: Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Marjorie Riordan, Lon McCallister, Margaret Early

Synopsis: This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising concerns. Most of the story takes place at the Stage Door Canteen, a Manhattan-based home away from home for soldiers, sailors and marines (the real-life Canteen on 44th Read More

Night Plane from Chungking

Actors: Robert Preston, Ellen Drew, Steven Geray, Soo Yong

Synopsis: An adequate wartime filler, Night Plane from Chungking features Robert Preston as the captain of the titular aircraft. En route from Chungking to India, the plane crashes, leaving captain and passengers stranded in a jungle surrounded by Japanese troops. It has been learned that one of the Read More

Saboteur

Actors: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Norman Lloyd, Otto Kruger, Vaughan Glaser, Murray Alper

Synopsis: Aircraft plant worker Robert Cummings is accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker. Actually, Cummings is the fall guy for a clever ring of Nazi spies, headed by above-suspicion American philanthropist Otto Kruger. Our hero goes on a cross-country chase after genuine Read More

Hitler's Children

Actors: Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: This modestly produced film version of Gregor Ziemmer's book Education for Death surprised everyone at RKO--and in the film industry--by becoming one the biggest hits of 1943. The "children" invoked in the title are borne on behalf of Adolf Hitler; according to the film, it is standard operating Read More

Secrets of a Co-Ed

Actors: Tina Thayer, Rick Vallin, Russell Hoyt, Marcia Mae Jones

Synopsis: College co-ed Brenta (Tina Thayer) is the daughter of district attorney Reynolds (Otto Kruger). In defiance of her dad's wishes, Brenta begins dating underworld figure Nick (Rick Vallin), the covert head of a gambling ring. Rather than see his daughter's reputation ruined by the slimy Nick Read More

Friendly Enemies

Actors: Charles Winninger, Charlie Ruggles, James Craig, Nancy Kelly, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: In this remake of the 1925 silent film, the breakup of a lifelong friendship between two German millionaires is chronicled. The trouble begins as WW II erupts. One of the men becomes sympathetic to the U.S. while the other becomes a Nazi sympathizer. They spend most of the film arguing about Read More

The Men in Her Life

Actors: Loretta Young, Conrad Veidt, Dean Jagger, Otto Kruger, Eugenie Leontovich, Ann Todd

Synopsis: Loretta Young is (mis)cast as a prima ballerina, who reaches the top of her profession and marries her demanding instructor (Conrad Veidt). Still, Loretta can't help reminiscing on the past loves in her life. She flashes back to her early days as a circus bareback rider and recalls all her former Read More

Mercy Island

Actors: Ray Middleton, Gloria Dickson, Otto Kruger, Donald Douglas, Forrester Harvey

Synopsis: The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the charter boat is wrecked on an isolated island. Unfortunately, there are very few provisions and the group must fend for themselves. They are Read More

The Big Boss

Actors: Otto Kruger, Gloria Dickson, John Litel, Don Beddoe, Robert Fiske

Synopsis: The Big Boss is Jim Maloney (Otto Kruger), who pulls all the political strings in an unnamed major metropolis. Maloney's chief antagonist is scrupulously honest "reform" governor Bob Dugan (John Litel). The fact that Maloney and Dugan are actually brothers, orphaned in childhood and raised Read More

Scandal Sheet

Actors: Otto Kruger, Ona Munson, Edward Norris, John Dilson, Don Beddoe

Synopsis: The publisher of a popular gossip magazine causes a scandal of his own when he hires his bastard son as a reporter. The cub journalist does not realize that his new boss is his father. After only a week, the impetuous youth quits and starts working for his father's rival. Ironically, it is he who Read More

Seventeen

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Betty Field, Otto Kruger, Ann Shoemaker, Norma Nelson

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1916 with Mary Pickford's brother Jack in the lead, Booth Tarkington's irresistable coming-of-age novel Seventeen serves as a tailor-made vehicle for 18-year-old Jackie Cooper. The star is cast as William Slyvanus Baxter, a high school boy who is undergoing the pangs of First Read More

The Hidden Menace

Actors: Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael, John Clements, Patrick Barr, Barbara Blair

Synopsis: Hollywood's Otto Kruger and Gertrude Michael head the cast of the British The Hidden Menace. The story takes place in a Vienna variety theatre, where a mad magician named Garvin (Kruger) periodically disposes of his romantic rivals by means of one of his deadlier hypnotic devices. His current Read More

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp, Maria Ouspenskaya

Synopsis: Edward G. Robinson portrays real-life German medical researcher Paul Erlich, the man who discovered and perfected "Formula 606," the cure for syphilis. The world at large would prefer to treat the disease as though it does not exist, so Erlich spends most of his life underfunded and frustrated. A Read More

A Dispatch from Reuters

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Basserman, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: As part of his new contract with Warner Bros., Edward G. Robinson agreed to appear in the gangster comedy Brother Orchid on the condition that the studio permit him to play the leading role in the lavish biopic A Dispatch from Reuters. Robinson is cast as Baron Paul Julius Reiter, who in 1833 Read More

The Man I Married

Actors: Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, Lloyd Nolan, Anna Sten, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: This cautionary pre-World War II drama stars Joan Bennett as an American girl who falls in love and marries a German (Francis Lederer) in 1938. At first he seems charming, but Joan discovers that her husband is slowly being seduced by the Nazi Party. Determined to leave, Bennett is forced to Read More

A Woman Is the Judge

Actors: Frieda Inescort, Otto Kruger, Rochelle Hudson, Mayo Methot, Gordon Oliver

Synopsis: The title tells all in Columbia's A Woman is the Judge. Frieda Inescourt stars as lady jurist Mary Cabot, who 20 years earlier had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woman (played by Rochelle Hudson), Justine accidentally shoots a man who'd impugned the reputation of her Read More

Disbarred

Actors: Gail Patrick, Robert Preston, Otto Kruger, Sidney Toler, Helen MacKellar

Synopsis: Gail Patrick plays a brilliant but naive country lawyer brought to the city to defend gangster Sidney Toler. She is subsidized by pillar of society Otto Kruger, who is actually the "big boy" behind the city's rackets. Ms. Patrick must prove that Toler didn't own a weapon that he is accused of Read More

Another Thin Man

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, C. Aubrey Smith, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: Three years after the second Thin Man entry, MGM brought back the property by popular demand with Another Thin Man. As ever, William Powell and Myrna Loy star as sophisticated sleuths Nick and Nora Charles, with the added filip of 8-month-old Nick Charles Jr. At the invitation of munitions Read More

Black Eyes

Actors: Mary Maguire, Otto Kruger, Walter Rilia, Marie Wright, John Wood

Synopsis: An embarrassed headwaiter provides the basis for this classical tale set in pre-war Russia. He conceals his lowly profession from his daughter who eventually discovers the truth. Soon after, the father discovers that his daughter has been having sex with a wealthy businessman in one of the Read More

The Gang's All Here

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Googie Withers, Edward Everett Horton, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: Dapper musical comedy favorite Jack Buchanan is practically the whole show in The Gang's All Here. Buchanan plays John Forrest, top investigator for the Stamford Insurance Company. Retiring from the firm, Forrest intends to devote the rest of his life to writing detective fiction, but this plan Read More

The Zero Hour

Actors: Frieda Inescort, Otto Kruger, Adrienne Ames, Donald Douglas, Jane Darwell

Synopsis: Hankies are not optional for this grim melodrama that tells the story of a kindly producer who mentors a beautiful young girl and helps her to become a big Broadway star. In time the two fall in love and decide to wed. Unfortunately, en route to a justice of the peace, tragedy strikes the happy Read More

Thanks for the Memory

Actors: Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Charles Butterworth, Otto Kruger, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: The popularity of both Bob Hope and the sentimental tune "Thanks for the Memory" by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin in The Big Broadcast of 1938 led to this plodding little domestic comedy-drama in which Hope plays a stay-at-home author and Shirley Ross his working wife. The situation is, of course Read More

Exposed

Actors: Glenda Farrell, Otto Kruger, Herbert Mundin, David Oliver, Lorraine Krueger

Synopsis: Glenda Farrell plays still another fast-talking girl reporter in Universal's Exposed. Willing to sell her soul for a story, newspaper sob sister Click Stewart (Farrell) is presently on the trail of DA William Reardon (Otto Kruger), a "Judge Crater" type who disappeared without a trace several Read More

Star of the Circus

Actors: Gertrude Michael, Otto Kruger, John Clements, Patrick Barr

Synopsis: The incredibly complex plot of Republic's Star of the Circus can be whittled down to a single sentence: A jealous circus magician is hoist on his own petard when he tries to eliminate his rival for the affections of a beautiful dancer. Otto Kruger plays the villain, an illusionist called The Great Read More

I Am the Law

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Barbara O'Neil, Wendy Barrie, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Edward G. Robinson switches to the right side of the law as the Dewey counterpart, here named John Lindsay (!) A feisty, no-nonsense law professor, Lindsay Read More

Housemaster

Actors: Otto Kruger, Diana Churchill, Phillips Holmes, Joyce Barbour, Renee Ray

Synopsis: American stage and film star Otto Kruger heads the cast of the above-average British comedy The Housemaster. Kruger, in the title role, presides benevolently over the students of a private boys' school. A new headmaster, who is as rigid and rule-bound as Kruger is kind and understanding, gives the Read More

Glamorous Night

Actors: Mary Ellis, Otto Kruger, Barry Mackay, Victor Jory, Trevor Jones

Synopsis: The popular Ivor Novello musical play Glamorous Night was given a conservative film treatment in 1937--minus much of the Novello score that had made it famous. Opera singer Mary Ellis plays an opera singer (why not?) who falls in with a band of roguish but likeable gypsies. Mary manages to Read More

The Barrier

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Jean Parker, James Ellison, Robert H. Barrat, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: A pageant-like Rex Beach story was the source of the 1937 western The Barrier. Leo Carrillo is top-billed, but the main character is half-breed girl Jean Parker. Actually, Parker is a full-blooded white woman; she has been raised to believe that she is of mixed blood by Robert H. Barrat, who has Read More

They Won't Forget

Actors: Claude Rains, Edward Norris, Allyn Joslyn, Linda Perry, Cy Kendall, E. Alyn Warren, Lana Turner

Synopsis: This hard-hitting Warner Bros. courtroom drama begins with the usual "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental" disclaimer. Filmgoers with long memories, however, recognized Robert Rossen and Aben Kandel's screenplay as a blow-by-blow recreation of the Leo Frank-Mary Read More

Counsel for Crime

Actors: Otto Kruger, Douglass Montgomery, Jacqueline Wells, Thurston Hall, Nana Bryant

Synopsis: Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his sweetheart Anne (Nana Bryant), who subsequently marries a powerful senator (Thurston Hall). What Mellon Read More

Lady of Secrets

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Otto Kruger, Lionel Atwill, Marian Marsh, Lloyd Nolan

Synopsis: In this tragic drama, a pregnant daughter prepares to marry a man she doesn't love when her 'sister' tells her a story. It seems that when the older woman was a girl she too got pregnant by her lover. When her father found out, he had the impregnator sent to war where he was killed. Meanwhile he Read More

Living Dangerously

Actors: Otto Kruger, Leonora Corbett, Francis Lister, Aileen Marson

Synopsis: Adapted from a long-running play by Reginald Simpson and Frank Gregory, Living Dangerously stars Otto Kruger as Dr. Norton. Though a pillar of virtue and a highly respected member of the community, Norton has a few unfortunate skeletons in his closet and these are exploited by his blackmailing Read More

Dracula's Daughter

Actors: Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill, Irving Pichel, Edward Van Sloan

Synopsis: It may be sacrilege to say so, but Dracula's Daughter is an immense improvement over the original 1931 Dracula, despite the absence of Bela Lugosi in the cast. Gloria Holden is first-rate as the title character, alias "Countess Marya Zaleska," who after stealing her father's body from the Read More

Vanessa, Her Love Story

Actors: Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery, Otto Kruger, May Robson, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Adapted from the last of Hugh Walpole's "Herries Chronicles," Vanessa: Her Love Story is set in Victorian England. Vanessa (Helen Hayes) doesn't know it, but there's a strain of inherited insanity in the family of her husband Ellis (Otto Kruger). Disturbed by Ellis' bizarre behavior, poor Vanessa Read More

Two Sinners

Actors: Otto Kruger, Martha Sleeper, Minna Gombell, Ferdinand Munier, Cora Sue Collins

Synopsis: One of the first releases of newly-formed Republic Pictures, Two Sinners was adapted from The Black Sheep, a serialized magazine story by Warwick Deeping. Otto Kruger stars as Henry Vane, who uncomplainingly serves a lengthy prison term for shooting the cad who compromised Vane's wife. Hoping to Read More

The Crime Doctor

Actors: Otto Kruger, Karen Morley, Nils Asther, Judith Wood, William Frawley

Synopsis: This thriller centers around a super detective's attempt to mastermind the perfect crime after he suspects his wife of infidelity. A woman has been blackmailing the man he suspects of messing with his wife. The detective kills this woman and blames the lover. The hapless man is convicted of the Read More

Men in White

Actors: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, Elizabeth Allan, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: In an unusual move, MGM released its film version of Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-Prize winning play Men in White while the play was still running on Broadway. Clark Gable is cast as Dr. George Ferguson, a dynamic young intern whose brilliant future seems assured. In addition to planning to study in Read More

Chained

Actors: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin, Una O'Connor

Synopsis: Joan Crawford is at her most glamorous (a different outfit and hairdo in each scene!) in the romantic melodrama Chained. Crawford plays Diane Lovering, the mistress of prominent Manhattan businessman Richard Field (Otto Kruger). Though she really isn't in love with him, she feels obligated to Read More

Springtime for Henry

Actors: Otto Kruger, Nancy Carroll, Nigel Bruce, Heather Angel, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him away with the promise of a more stable relationship. The rake is tempted, but then decides he prefers the married woman, which is fine with her husband who has an eye for the Read More

Paris Interlude

Actors: Madge Evans, Robert Young, Una Merkel, Otto Kruger, Ted Healy

Synopsis: In director Edwin L. Marin's film Paris Interlude, a beautiful French woman named Julie Bell (Madge Evans) unexpectedly falls in love with Sam Colt (Otto Kruger, a vulgar American news journalist. Based on (All Good Americans), a play by Laura and .J. Perelman , Sam spends most of his time in Read More

Treasure Island

Actors: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: This fifth film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island boasts an all-star MGM cast, headed by Wallace Beery as Long John Silver and Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins. The screenplay, by John Lee Mahin, John Howard Lawson and Leonard Praskins, remains faithful to the Stevenson original...up Read More

Gallant Lady

Actors: Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Otto Kruger, Tullio Carminatti, Dickie Moore

Synopsis: Ann Harding, one of screendom's finest sufferers, stars in Gregory LaCava's Gallant Lady. Left pregnant by her (apparently) deceased lover Dan (Clive Brook, cast against type as a drunken lout), Sally (Harding ) tearfully gives up her son Didi (Dickie Moore) for adoption and endeavors to start Read More

The Women in His Life

Actors: Otto Kruger, Una Merkel, Ben Lyon, Isabel Jewell, Roscoe Karns

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a famous criminal attorney is abandoned by his wife who has tired of his neglect and heavy drinking. She runs to the arms of a prominent gangster. Later, the lawyer must take a murder case--his ex-wife is the victim. It is quite a shock, but somehow he manages to keep it Read More

Turn Back the Clock

Actors: Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, Otto Kruger, George Barbier, Peggy Shannon

Synopsis: Lee Tracy is a middle-aged, middle-class man dissatisfied with his life. If he'd only married the girl he wanted to and had been a smarter businessman (he believes), things would have been better. One morning, Tracy wakes up and discovers he's been transported twenty years in the past. Armed with Read More

Ever in My Heart

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly, Frank Albertson

Synopsis: An espionage drama set in the early 20th century, Ever in My Heart stars Barbara Stanwyck as a New England naif who marries a German citizen (Otto Kruger). In 1915, Stanwyck and her husband suffer a brace of blows: The death of their son, and the sinking of the Lusitania, the latter Read More

The Prizefighter and the Lady

Actors: Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey, Walter Huston

Synopsis: One woman helps make an unknown boxer a star, but could a handful lead him back to obscurity again? Steve Morgan (Max Baer) is a ex-sailor tending bar in a seedy dive when The Professor (Walter Huston), a boxing coach, sees Morgan make short work of a troublesome customer. The Professor convinces Read More

Beauty for Sale

Actors: Madge Evans, Otto Kruger, Alice Brady, Una Merkel, May Robson

Synopsis: The beauty-parlor craze of the early 1930s was given a good going-over in MGM's Beauty for Sale. Madge Evans, Florine McKinney and Una Merkel star as Letty, Jane and Carol, three employees of a swank Manhattan beauty salon. While Carol wisecracks her way through life, Letty takes things more Read More

Under the Red Robe

Synopsis: An epic, 13-reel costume drama produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan productions -- and it doesn't star his mistress, Marion Davies! Based on the novel by Stanley Weyman, this film was said to be the first to cost 1.5 million dollars to produce (a real fortune in those days). Read More