Otto Kruger

  • Joseph M. Newman – 711 Ocean Drive (1950)

    1941-1950Film NoirJoseph M. NewmanThrillerUSA

    Synopsis:
    A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. When the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.Read More »

  • Gregory La Cava – Gallant Lady (1933)

    1931-1940DramaGregory La CavaUSA

    Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.Read More »

  • Richard Boleslawski – Beauty for Sale (1933)

    1931-1940DramaRichard BoleslawskiRomanceUSA

    A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
    Quote:
    Another delectable sweet-and-sour pre-Code entry of the early 1930s, nimbly skirting the edges of that era’s morality with prodding grown-up material, satirizing the comedic and dramatic possibilities therein. Story concerns three gals who work in a New York City beauty parlor: one is dating a married man, another is pregnant by a no-goodnik, and the third spends her nights with a rich sugar daddy.Read More »

  • Alfred Hitchcock – Saboteur (1942)

    1941-1950Alfred HitchcockClassicsThrillerUSA

    Synopsis:
    Los Angeles aircraft worker Barry Kane evades arrest after he is unjustly accused of sabotage. Following leads, he travels across the country to New York City trying to clear his name by exposing a gang of fascist-supporting saboteurs led by apparently respectable Charles Tobin. Along the way, he involves Pat Martin, eventually preventing another major act of sabotage. They finally catch up with Frank Frye, the man who actually committed the act of sabotage at the aircraft factory.Read More »

  • Budd Boetticher – Escape in the Fog (1945)

    1941-1950Budd BoetticherDramaFilm NoirUSA

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    In 1945, Dutch-born actress Nina Foch had the good fortune to star in a pair of economical, satisfying thrillers. She was a damsel in distress in Joseph H. Lewis’ My Name Is Julia Ross, an updated Gothic set in England. In Budd (then ‘Oscar’) Boettischer’s wartime espionage drama Escape In The Fog, she’s a dame in distress in the city by the bay.

    It opens in a nightmare she’s having. Walking one fog-bound night on the Golden Gate Bridge, she sees three men piling out of a taxi trying to kill a fourth. She screams – and the screams bring to her room in Ye Rustic Dell Inn other guests running to her aid. One of them is the intended victim in her dream (William Wright), whom she’s never before laid eyes on. They hit it off, though, and he persuades her to join him for a few days in San Francisco.Read More »

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