Paul HenreidFilmography

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Actors: Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn

Synopsis: Four years after her bout of demonic possession, Regan MacNeil seems at peace as she enjoys a privileged but lonely adolescence. Her actress mother, absent on-location, leaves her in the care of her childhood nanny, Sharon, who feels inextricably bound to her young charge despite the terror she Read More

Death Among Friends

Synopsis: Canadian actress Kate Reid plays a lady p.i. in Death Among Friends. Kate is hired to solve the murder of a multimillionaire financier. As tipped off by the title, she need look no farther than the dead man's circle of friends. Refreshingly, both the heroine and her police contact, John Anderson Read More

The Failing of Raymond

Synopsis: Jane Wyman makes her TV-movie debut in The Failing of Raymond. She plays a middle-aged schoolteacher on the verge of retirement. Just before packing up and heading out, she is terrorized by former student Dean Stockwell. Having flunked out of her class ten years earlier, the demented man intends Read More

Double Image

Synopsis: A currency smuggling ring was the death of one of its members and her boyfriend diplomat avenges her death by cracking the ring. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Madwoman of Chaillot

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, Claude Dauphin, Edith Evans, Margaret Leighton, John Gavin

Synopsis: Taken from the popular play by Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman Of Chaillot has an international all-star cast, but the final result falls short despite the talents of the celebrated thespians. The madwoman in question is the extremely eccentric Countess Aurelia (Katherine Hepburn). Roderick (Richard Chamberlain Read More

Peking Remembered

Synopsis: Paul Henreid narrates this one-hour documentary about Peking, China in the days before the communist takeover. As all Italian roads lead to Rome, so do all roads in China lead to Peking. Here, peasants train pigeons to steal rice from the royal grain reserve to avoid starvation, and stories of the Read More

Blues for Lovers

Crew: Director

Actors: Ray Charles, Tom Bell, Mary Peach, Dawn Addams, Piers Bishop, Monika Henreid

Synopsis: Originally titled Blues For Lovers, Ballad in Blue was the last of actor Paul Henreid's theatrical-film directorial efforts. R&B legend Ray Charles plays himself, attempting to help a newly blinded British boy adjust to sightlessness. Charles is no actor, but he has a natural ease and grace that Read More

Bonanza: A Time to Step Down

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ed Begley, Sr., Audrey Totter

Synopsis: Ed Begley Sr. makes a return visit to Bonanza in the role of proud old Ponderosa wrangler Dan Tolliver. Sensing that Dan is getting too old for his work, Ben Cartwright arranges for the stubborn ranchhand to take on an easier job. Infuriated, Dan quits the Ponderosa and falls in with two outlaws Read More

Operation Crossbow

Actors: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Tom Courtenay, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Kemp, Paul Henreid, Helmut Dantine

Synopsis: This big-budget, big-studio espionage film is set in the last years of World War II. George Peppard, Tom Courtenay and Jeremy Kemp parachute into Germany, with orders to destroy the Nazis' V-1 rocket base at Peenemunde. Given the order of billing, guess which special operative survives the Read More

Dead Ringer

Crew: Director

Actors: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey, Jean Hagen

Synopsis: Though he's most famous for his portrayal of Victor Laszlo in 1942's Casablanca, actor Paul Henreid took a few turns behind the camera as evidenced by this 1964 thriller starring Bette Davis as twins Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips. After landing the beau they both sought after by falsely Read More

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Actors: Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Henreid

Synopsis: There's a rumor that the MGM executive who thought that Glenn Ford could fill Rudolph Valentino's shoes in the 1962 remake of Valentino's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse would have been arrested had it been sufficiently proven that he was competent to stand trial. The World War I setting of the Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Annabel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Inasmuch as this episode was scripted by Robert Bloch, one shouldn't be surprised by its echoes of Bloch's suspense classic Psycho. The titular Annabel (Susan Oliver) is the former girlfriend of nerdy chemist David Kelsey (Dean Stockwell), who obsesses over the girl day and night. Having spent a Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Kerry Blue

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ned Malley (Gene Evans) is devoted to his pet dog, a Kerry blue named Annie. Tired of playing second fiddle to Annie, Ned's long-suffering wife, Thelma (Carmen Mathews), makes no secret of her disdain for the dog. Thus, when Annie dies, Ned accuses Thelma of poisoning the pooch -- and intends to Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: What Frightened You, Fred?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Prison warden Bragen (Edward Asner) can't understand why former convict and recent parolee Fred Riordan (R.G. Armstrong) would commit a minor crime which lands him back behind bars. Thinking that Fred simply isn't psychologically capable of living in the outside world, Bragen asks the man to tell Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Victim Four

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having suffering a crippling injury while on his honeymoon, Joe Drake (Paul Comi) is none too pleased when he is visited by Ralph Morrow (John Lupton), former boyfriend of Joe's wife, Madeline (Peggy Ann Garner). Convinced that Ralph has set his sights for Madeline again, Joe gets carried away by Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Landlady

Crew: Director

Synopsis: New in town, bank clerk Billy Weaver (Dean Stockwell) rents a room from a slightly daffy old woman (Patricia Collinge). After a few days, Billy begins to wonder why he never sees any of the lady's other tenants. While he doesn't get any answers right away, he does find out that his landlady is Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Last Escape

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Third-rate escape artist Joe Ferlini (Keenan Wynn) hopes to make the big time with a particularly dangerous stunt, in which he will be manacled hand and foot and locked into a submerged trunk. Both Joe's wife Wanda (Jan Sterling) and his manager Phil (Dennis Patrick) try to talk Joe out of this Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Museum Piece

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A skeleton in a museum collection of Native American artifacts catches the eye of a man named Newton Clovis (Myron McCormick). Curator Clay Hollister (Larry Gates) insists that the skeleton is that of an Indian, but Newton suspects otherwise. In flashback, we learn that Newton is absolutely right Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Cop for a Day

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hoodlums Phil (Walter Matthau) and Davey (Glenn Cannon) stage a daring daylight robbery of a bank messenger, whom hotheaded Davey shoots and kills. It turns out that there was a witness to the murder, a young woman (Carol Grace) now in police custody. Scheming to knock off the witness before she Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Old Pro

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Retired professional assassin Frank Burns (Richard Conte) has told his new wife, Loretta (Sara Shane), that he used to be an engineer. Unfortunately, a man named Cullen (Stacy Harris) knows the truth about Burns, and he threatens to tell all unless he is paid off. Not one to be threatened, Frank Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Services Rendered

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode marked the first of several Hitchcock contributions by future Columbo and Murder, She Wrote creators Richard Levinson and William Link. Steve Dunne plays a young man who suffers total amnesia after sustaining a blow to the head. Rummaging through his wallet, the man finds two possible Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: You Can't Trust a Man

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Nightclub singer Crystal Coe (Polly Bergen) is less than thrilled when her former husband, Tony (Joe Maross), shows up. It seems that Tony has served a lengthy prison sentence for a crime that Crystal had committed. Now Crystal must find a way to divest herself of Tony for good -- never suspecting Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Self Defense

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Although storekeeper Mrs. Gruber (Jesslyn Fax) has purchased a gun for protection, she finds herself incapable of pulling the trigger when she is robbed by a teenager named Jimmy Philips (Bob Paget). Not so timorous is Mrs. Gruber's customer Gerald R. Clarke (George Nader), who grabs the gun Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Ambition

Crew: Director

Synopsis: DA Rudolph Cox (Leslie Nielsen) hopes to use the testimony of stoolie Lou Heinz (Bernard Kates) to put mobster Mac Davis (Harold J. Stone) away for keeps. Unfortunately, Heinz's cover is blown and he is marked for death. Even more unfortunately, the most important official in town seems to be in Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Cell 227

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Condemned for a murder he didn't commit, embittered death-row inmate Prof. Herbert Morrison (Brian Keith) has not only given up all hopes of a reprieve, but has informed his lawyer not to even bother getting him released. As his last hours tick away, Morrison is more annoyed than usual by the Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Hitchhike

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Charles Underhill (John McIntire) and his niece Anne (Suzanne Pleshette) offer a ride to Len (Robert Morse), the nice young man who helped Charles repair his stalled car. Shortly thereafter, Underhill learns that Len has spent several years in a reform school. Now in fear of his life, Underhill Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Letter of Credit

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The death of accused bank robber Arnold Mathias (Ron Nichols) during a prison break has revived interest in the robbery which allegedly netted Mathias 500,000 dollars -- but which has never been officially solved. Shortly after Mathias' death, a man identifying himself as novelist Henry Taylor (Robert Bray Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Out There--Darkness

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bette Davis guest stars in this episode, which was directed by her former Now, Voyager co-star Paul Henreid. Davis is cast as Miss Fox, a wealthy woman living in a luxury apartment. Taking a liking to elevator operator Eddie McMahon (James Congdon), Miss Fox hires him to walk her dog. Later on Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Personal Matter

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Escaped killer Joe Philips (Joe Maross) is hiding in plain sight as a worker at a Mexican construction site. Later on, another man is hired to work alongside Joe: Bret Johnson (Wayne Morris), who turns out to be the detective hired to bring Joe to justice. Things don't quite work out as planned Read More

Maverick: Passage to Fort Doom

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Arlene Howell makes her last series appearance as Southern-fried sharpster Cindy Lou Brown in this episode, in which Bret Maverick (James Garner) hires on as guide for a stagecoach line. En route to the far-flung outpost of Fort Doom, Bret discovers that among his passengers is the redoubtable Read More

Maverick: The Brasada Spur

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Developing a hankerin' for Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly), wealthy young widow Belle Morgan (Julie Adams) arranges it so Bart can participate in a big-time poker game. Emerging victorious, Bart finds himself the proud owner of the Brasada railroad spur. Unfortunately, the "prize" soon turns out to be Read More

Holiday for Lovers

Actors: Clifton Webb, Jane Wyman, Jill St. John, Carol Lynley, Paul Henreid

Synopsis: Director Henry Levin followed up this light romantic comedy with Where the Boys Are and started a beach trend going. This conventional story stars one of his favorite actors Clifton Webb as Robert Dean, the father of two lively teen-age daughters. He and his wife Mary (Jane Wyman) accompany their Read More

Never So Few

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson

Synopsis: Action director John Sturges had a few good films behind him (Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) and a few more to come (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven) when he put together this colorful story of wartime romance. In addition to his talents as a director, this saga of an Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Kind Waitress

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hotel waitress Thelma Tompkins (Olive Deering) is surprised to learn that wealthy Mrs. Mannerheim (Celia Lovsky) has named Thelma in her will. Relating this news to her lazy musician boyfriend, Arthur (Rick Jason), in hopes that he will propose to her, Thelma is disappointed when Arthur replies Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Crooked Road

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While driving along a country road, Harry Adams (Richard Kiley) and his wife (Patricia Breslin) are pulled over for speeding. This begins a chain reaction of events which lead to the inescapable conclusion that the town in which the Adamses are stranded is chock-full of crooks and grafters Read More

Girls on the Loose

Crew: Director

Actors: Mara Corday, Lita Milan, Barbara Bostock, Mark Richman

Synopsis: Actor Paul Henried's directorial efforts always tended to be on the sensationalistic side, and Girls on the Loose was no exception. Mara Corday stars as Vera Parkinson, the beautiful-but-deadly head of a robbery gang. To throw the cops off the track, Vera runs a legit nightclub as a cover. Read More

Live Fast, Die Young

Crew: Director

Actors: Mary Murphy, Norma Eberhardt, Sheridan Comerate, Michael Connors, Peggy Maley

Synopsis: In this low-budget crime drama a runaway girl joins a gang of jewel thieves and finds herself leading an exciting luxurious life until her older sister shows up during a caper and gets her and the rest of the gang in trouble. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Death Sentence

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Worrywart Norman Frayne (James Best) is so wrapped up with his own problems that he is neglecting his wife, Paula (Katherine Bard). All this changes when Norman's old pal, handsome Al Revenel (Steve Brodie), comes to town. Now Norman has something new to worry about -- namely, that Al is poised to Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Impromptu Murder

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The year is 1916; the place, a small English town. During the dedication ceremony for a new bridge, the townsfolk are shocked to see the body of a woman floating in the river. Well, technically speaking, not everyone is shocked. Henry Dow (Hume Cronyn), the mayor of the town, assumes that the body Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Guest for Breakfast

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode may well have been one of the inspirations for the darkly humorous 1994 theatrical feature The Ref. The constant quarrelling between Jordan and Eve Ross (Scott McKay, Joan Tetzel) is only briefly interrupted when a fugitive criminal named Chester Lacey (Richard Shepard) invades their Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Little Sleep

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Broadway musical star and celebrated concert singer Barbara Cook makes a rare TV appearance in this chilling episode. Bored with her boyfriend, party girl Barbie Hallem (Cook) decides to escape to her uncle's cabin in the woods. En route, Barbie is warned by café owner Ed Mungo (Robert Karnes) Read More

Wild Stallion

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Vicious Circle

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Professional hit man Manny Coe (Dick York) is kept on retainer by crime boss Mr. Williams (George Macready) to eliminate those crooks who have outlasted their usefulness to Williams' operation. When Manny bumps off an inept jewel thief, his girlfriend Betty (Kathleen Maguire) threatens to call the Read More

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Actors: Dean Martin, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Eva Bartok, Dewey Martin, Walter Slezak

Synopsis: Dean Martin's first solo film after his split with Jerry Lewis was very nearly his last. Dino plays Ray Hunter, a Conrad Hiltonesque playboy hotelier at large in Rome. Taking charge of his latest acquisition -- a huge hotel with the titular 10,000 bedrooms -- Hunter finds himself being pursued by Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Silent Witness

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Although he is married, college professor Donald Mason (Donald Taylor) regularly carries on affairs with his prettier students. Attempting to break off his romance with coed Claudia Powell (Dolores Hart), Mason catches up with Claudia while she is working as a babysitter. One thing leads to Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Diplomatic Corpse

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While on vacation in Mexico, a wealthy woman dies in the back seat of the car owned by her daughter Janet (Mary Scott) and son-in-law Evan (George Peppard). Reporting the woman's demise, the couple returns to find that the car has been stolen -- and with no corpse, they will be unable to claim Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Enough Rope for Two

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Released from prison, criminal Joe Kedzie (Steven Hill) makes a beeline to an abandoned mine shaft in the desert, where he has hidden 100,000 dollars in stolen money. Hot on Joe's heels are his two cohorts, Maxie (Steve Brodie) and Madge, (Jean Hagen), who hope to claim their share of the dough Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Last Request

Crew: Director

Synopsis: On the eve of his execution for a crime he didn't commit, Gerald Daniels (Harry Guardino) makes one last request: a typewriter. Angrily, Daniels pounds out a damning critique of D.A. Bernard Butler (Hugh Marlowe), the man who had sent him to death row. Daniels reveals that, not only did Butler Read More

A Woman's Devotion

Crew: Director

Actors: Ralph Meeker, Janice Rule, Paul Henreid, Rosenda Monteros, Fanny Schiller

Synopsis: Battle Shock and War Shock were the titles bestowed by British distributors upon the Paul Henreid-directed psychological drama A Woman's Devotion. Ralph Meeker stars as Trevor Stevenson, an emotionally scarred World War II veteran who has channelled his fears and phobias into his painting. At Read More

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Actors: Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Agnes Moorehead, Lili Darvas, Jim Backus

Synopsis: A whole slew of guest stars makes Meet Me in Las Vegas a special treat for movie buffs. The central plot concerns wealthy rancher Chuck Rodwell (Dan Dailey), who takes a Vegas vacation with his mother (Agnes Moorehead). At the same time, ballerina Maria Corvier (Cyd Charisse) also arrives in Las Read More

Pirates of Tripoli

Actors: Paul Henreid, Patricia Medina, Paul Newlan, John Miljan, Mark Hanna

Synopsis: Paul Henreid was light-years removed from Now Voyager and Casablanca when he starred in the Columbia costume cheapie Pirates of Tripoli. Henreid is cast as Edri-Al-Gadrian, a bold buccaneer who comes to the rescue of Princess Karjan (Patricia Medina). Much of the action footage is culled from Read More

Deep in My Heart

Actors: José Ferrer, Helen Traubel, Merle Oberon, Walter Pidgeon, Doe Avedon

Synopsis: Deep in My Heart is the MGM-ified biography of composer Sigmund Romberg, here played by José Ferrer. Evidently the scripters didn't feel that the life of Romberg (as set down by author Elliott Arnold, whose book was used as the film's basis) had enough drama to fill out two hours and ten minutes. Read More

Cabaret

Actors: Paul Henreid, Eva Kerbler, Elma Karlowa

Synopsis: Though set in Germany, the 1954 musical melodrama Cabaret bears no relation to the 1972 film of the same name. The gossamer-thin plotline involves a famed singer-composer (Paul Henreid), his wife (Eva Kerbler) and his mistress (Elma Karlowa). Hoping to effect a reconciliation with his wife, the Read More

Woman in Hiding

Synopsis: In this thriller, an imprisoned psycho killer's wife tries to start a new life. She changes her name and marries again. Her true identity is known only by her employer. The trouble begins when the killer escapes from prison. A detective pursues him and discovers that the killer is perfectly sane Read More

Siren of Baghdad

Actors: Paul Henreid, Patricia Medina, Hans Conried, Charlie Lung, Laurette Luez

Synopsis: Everyone involved with Siren of Bagdad decided early on that this adventure could never be taken seriously; thus it's played strictly for laughs, and actually earns a few. Paul Henried stars as an Arabian-Nights magician who becomes involved with a passel of harem girls and an usurping sultan. We Read More

Man in Hiding

Synopsis: Paul Henreid stars in the compact British noir thriller Man in Hiding. Henreid plays a detective, out to capture a slippery murderer. At one point, our hero is forced by circumstances to elude the law himself. Future "Miss Moneypenny" Lois Maxwell, former "Saint" Hugh Sinclair, and Kieron Moore Read More

Thief of Damascus

Actors: Paul Henreid, John Sutton, Jeff Donnell, Lon Chaney, Jr., Elena Verdugo

Synopsis: Generous portions of stock footage from 1948's Joan of Arc are somehow worked into the Arabian Nights proceedings of Thief of Damascus. His tongue firmly in cheek, Paul Henreid plays the title character, aka Abu Amdar. The plot has something to do with an evil desert chieftain (John Sutton) who Read More

For Men Only

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Paul Henreid, Robert Sherman, Russell Johnson, Margaret Field, Kathleen Hughes

Synopsis: Also known as The Tall Lie, For Men Only was a hard-hitting if somewhat gratuitous expose of college fraternity "hazing." A young man is rushed by a popular and well-established frat, only to discover that part of the initiation ceremony requires him to kill a puppy. He drops out of the fraternity Read More

A Stolen Face

Actors: Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, Andre Morell, Mary Mackenzie, John Wood

Synopsis: Brilliant plastic surgeon Philip Ritter (Paul Henreid) loses the love of his life, concert pianist Alice Brent (Lizabeth Scott), to her manager, David (Andre Morell). As a balm to his wounded pride, Dr. Ritter Henreid makes over a hideously scarred female criminal into the spitting image of the Read More

Pardon My French

Actors: Paul Henreid, Merle Oberon, Maximilienne, Paul Bonifas, Jim Gérald

Synopsis: Filmed on location, the Franco-American co-production Pardon My French stars Merle Oberon and Paul Henreid. Oberon is cast against type as Elizabeth Rockwell, a staid Bostonian schoolmarm who insists that all "squatters" remove themselves from the French chateau she's just inherited. The head Read More

Bonnes Vacances Elisabeth

Actors: Merle Oberon, Paul Henreid, Alexandre Rignault, Maximilienne

So Young, So Bad

Actors: Paul Henreid, Catherine McLeod, Grace Coppin, Cecil Clovelly, Anne Jackson, Anne Francis

Synopsis: Actor Paul Henreid made his directorial debut with the well-intentioned So Young, So Bad. The scene is a correctional home for delinquent girls, where sadistic warden Riggs (Cecil Clovelly) and head matron Beuhler (Grace Coppin) rule with an iron fist. Compassionate psychiatrist Dr. Jason (Paul Henreid Read More

Last of the Buccaneers

Actors: Paul Henreid, Jack Oakie, Karin [Katharine] Booth, Mary Anderson, Edgar Barrier

Synopsis: Generous amounts of stock footage from 1950's Fortunes of Captain Blood made its way into the Sam Katzman production Last of the Buccaneers. Paul Henreid plays famed buccaneer Jean Lafitte, who, after being chased out of Louisiana following the Battle of New Orleans, sets up shop on the island of Read More

Dans La Vie Tout S' Arrange

Actors: Merle Oberon, Paul Henreid, Jim Gérald, Maximilienne

Rope of Sand

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Sam Jaffe

Synopsis: Producer Hal Wallis evidently hoped to recapture the magic of his earlier Casablanca with 1949's Rope of Sand. To that end, he hired three of Casablanca's supporting players: Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, and Peter Lorre. This time, Henreid is the villain, a sadistic police inspector named Paul Read More

The Scar

Crew: Producer

Actors: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen

Synopsis: John Muller (Paul Henreid), an intelligent, arrogant criminal who has been a medical student and a phony psychoanalyst, believes that people are only interested in themselves and do not notice what is happening around them. Paroled from prison to a boring job, Muller is more interested in a big Read More

Song of Love

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker, Henry Daniell, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: Song of Love is the MGM-ified version of the lives and loves of 19th century musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine Hepburn), Robert Schumann (Paul Henreid) and Johannes Brahms (Robert Walker, who the previous year had played another composer, Jerome Kern, in Til the Clouds Roll By). Clara Read More

Of Human Bondage

Actors: Eleanor Parker, Paul Henreid, Alexis Smith, Edmund Gwenn, Janis Paige

Synopsis: This second film version of Somerset Maugham's classic novel stars Paul Henreid as a clubfooted, introverted medical student--an Englishman in the novel, but not in the hands of the mittel-European Mr. Henried. Eleanor Parker is featured as Mildred, the vulgar, brassy cockney waitress in whom Read More

Deception

Actors: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, John Abbott, Benson Fong

Synopsis: Deception is an operatic rehash of the 1929 film Jealousy. Music teacher Bette Davis--who evidently has a large student pool, judging by the size of her penthouse apartment--is reunited with her cellist lover Paul Henreid, whom she believed to have been killed in the war. Henreid wants to marry Read More

The Spanish Main

Actors: Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Binnie Barnes, John Emery

Synopsis: RKO Radio's first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul Henried is his usual stoic self as Laurent Van Horn, a Dutch sea captain shipwrecked on the coast of Cartagena, a Spanish-held island. Sentenced to be hanged, Van Horn and his Read More

Devotion

Actors: Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Olivia de Havilland, Sydney Greenstreet, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Coleman

Synopsis: Roundly blasted upon its release because of the extreme liberties it takes with the truth, Devotion is better as cinema than as history. Not that it's great cinema, mind you, mainly because the filmmakers opted to replace historical fact with either tired dramatic clichés or wild improbabilities. Read More

Hollywood Canteen

Actors: Robert Hutton, The Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny, Joan Leslie, Julie Bishop, Bette Davis, John Garfield, Betty Brodel, Sydney Greenstreet, Barbara Brown

Synopsis: The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film stars Bette Davis and John Garfield. The Canteen was established so that Our Boys on leave in Tinseltown could have a good time with good food and good dancing -- and, as a Read More

In Our Time

Actors: Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Nancy Coleman, Mary Boland, Victor Francen

Synopsis: More a romantic melodrama than the uplifting propaganda piece the producers perhaps envisioned, In Our Time stars Ida Lupino as Jennifer Whittredge, a young antique buyer marrying a Polish count, Stephan Orvid (Paul Henried), after a whirlwind romance in a Warsaw at the brink of World War II. The Read More

Between Two Worlds

Actors: John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Eleanor Parker, Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis: In this remake of Outward Bound, which updated the story to include topical refences to the war still raging in Europe, Henry (Paul Henreid) and Ann (Eleanor Parker) are a couple from Austria hoping to escape Nazi bombings. They are en route to a ship leaving Europe when an explosion throws them Read More

The Conspirators

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Victor Francen

Synopsis: This Casablanca-esque spy thriller set during WWII centers on the exploits of the notorious "Flying Dutchman," a fugitive resistance leader from Holland who heads for Lisbon where he hooks up with other members of the underground. One of them is a beautiful young woman, and none of the others Read More

Joan of Paris

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Paul Henreid, Thomas Mitchell, Laird Cregar, May Robson

Synopsis: At first glance, we seem to be watching the 1934 Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musical The Gay Divorcee, which opens with a montage of Paris nightspots. Suddenly, however, stock footage from that earlier film is cut short, the screen goes dark, and an offscreen radio voice announces the Nazi invasion Read More

Now, Voyager

Actors: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Bonita Granville, Gladys Cooper, Ilka Chase

Synopsis: Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the trade: Warner Bros., Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, director Irving Rapper, and screenwriter Casey Robinson. Davis plays repressed Charlotte Vale, dying on the vine thanks to Read More

Casablanca

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard categorization. Simply put, it is the story of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a world-weary ex-freedom fighter who runs a nightclub in Casablanca during Read More

Under Your Hat

Actors: Jack Hulbert, Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Austin Trevor, Leonora Corbett, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: In this lively spy caper, the male half of a married song-and-dance duo moonlights as a government spy. The trouble begins when he is assigned to monitor a sexy foreign spy, something he must keep from his wife, who soon gets jealous when she sees the two constantly together. To monitor her own Read More

Night Train to Munich

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne

Synopsis: Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night Train to Munich). Actually he's a British agent, working undercover to rescue a Czech inventor from the Gestapo. The inventor's daughter (Margaret Lockwood) becomes the Read More

Mad Men of Europe

Actors: Edmund Gwenn, Mary Maguire, Geoffrey Toone, Richard Ainley

Synopsis: In this British wartime propaganda film, a Nazi spy creeps into England and is taken in by a kindly family who have no idea who he really is. He repays their kindness by using their home as a radio base for his communiqués to other Nazis regarding the location of British targets for German planes Read More

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Actors: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills, Paul Henreid

Synopsis: Goodbye, Mr. Chips, based on James Hilton's novel, is a melodrama about a shy British teacher named Mr. Chipping (Robert Donat) who devotes his life to teaching "his boys" after the death of his lovely, energetic American wife Katherine (Greer Garson). Told via flashbacks, the film features an Read More

Victoria the Great

Actors: Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilia, Mary Morris, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: Laurence Housman's 1935 stage play Victoria Regina, which has served as a showcase for actresses as varied as Helen Hayes and Julie Harris, was adapted for the screen in 1937 as Victoria the Great. Herbert Wilcox was the producer, so no one was surprised and everyone was satisfied when Wilcox cast Read More

Morgenrot

Actors: Rudolf Forster, Adele Sandrock, Fritz Genschow, Camilla Spira, Paul Westermeier

Synopsis: This German language film illustrates the worship of military endeavor which was to become a staple of the Hitler regime. It centers around life on a German submarine in WWI. ~ All Movie Guide Read More