Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans, so the Republican cause finally turns out to be victorious.Read More »
Robert Siodmak
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Robert Siodmak – Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes AKA Pyramid of the Sun God (1965)
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Robert Siodmak – The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) (HD)
Robert Siodmak1941-1950250 Quintessential Film NoirsDramaFilm NoirUSABachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last…thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister. Will Harry resort to desperate measures?Read More »
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Robert Siodmak – Der Schatz der Azteken AKA Treasure of the Aztecs (1965)
Robert Siodmak1961-1970AdventureGermanyDr. Karl Sternau supports the Mexican national president Juarez against the army of Austrian Maximilian who have occupied the country. Karl and Juarez hope to fund their fight with the recently discovered, legendary treasure of the Aztecs.Read More »
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Robert Siodmak – Cry of the City (1948)
Robert Siodmak1941-1950250 Quintessential Film NoirsDramaFilm NoirUSASynopsis:
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles’ allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he’ll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?Read More » -
Robert Siodmak – Phantom Lady (1944)
Robert Siodmak1941-1950250 Quintessential Film NoirsDramaFilm NoirUSAQuote:
Phantom Lady (1944) is one of the high points of ’40s film noir, the title alone evoking a potent mythology of this era. At the center of its narrative is the seemingly hopeless search for the title character who potentially serves as the only reliable witness in the murder trial for Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis), falsely accused of killing his wife. But the search is frustrated by Henderson’s inability to remember any details about the woman outside of a flamboyant hat she wore during the night they spent together, an unlikely memory lapse that only intensifies his apparent guilt. Furthermore, no one else who saw Henderson and the woman together will admit to the police that they had seen her.Read More » -
Robert Siodmak – Escape from East Berlin (1962)
1961-1970DramaRobert SiodmakUSAPlot Synopsis
from IMDB
The film opens with Karl Schroeder (Don Murray), chauffeur to an East German Major, seeing a friend killed as he tried to drive his truck through the wall, He is persuaded by the friend’s sister, Erika Jurgens (Christine Kaufmann), and his own family to engineer an attempt to make an escape to the Western sector of the city by digging a tunnel under the wall which is close to their home…
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Robert Siodmak – Time Out of Mind (1947)
1941-1950DramaFilm NoirRobert SiodmakUSAThe son of a wealthy Maine shipping magnate causes a crisis in the family when he announces that he wants a career in music rather than in the family business.Read More »
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Robert Siodmak – Pièges AKA Personal Column (1939)
1931-1940FranceMusicalRobert SiodmakThrillerWhen 11 young Parisian women mysteriously disappear, the police recruit Adrienne Charpentier, the friend of the latest victim, to investigate. The only thing which seems to link the disappearances is that each of the victims replied to a small ad in the newspapers. In answering a number of ads herself, Adrienne meets some suspicious individuals, but they all turn out to be innocent. Then she meets a cabaret performer, Robert Fleury, who instantly falls in love with her. Soon after marrying Fleury, she discovers damning evidence that inculpates him as the murderer of the missing women…Read More »
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Robert Siodmak & Don Siegel & Steven Soderbergh – Stereoscopic Killers [Soderbergh Experimental Edit] (2016)
2011-2020Don SiegelExperimentalFilm NoirRobert SiodmakSteven SoderberghUSASteven Soderbergh mixes Siodmak’s 1946 and Siegel’s 1964 The Killers
with wide selection of musical numbers “when presented with the challenge of delivering
some audio/visual material for a series of events organized in LA “Read More »