Virginia Christine
Biography: Virginia Christine Ricketts was an American stage and screen film actress. She began training for a theatrical career with actor/ director Fritz Feld whom she married in 1940. In 1942, she made her stage debut in the Los Angeles production of "Hedda Gabler". While performing in the play, she was spotted by an agent from Warner Bros. who signed her to a film contract with the studio. Virginia Christie appeared in more than 170 feature films and TV-productions.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 05, 1920
Deathday: July 24, 1996
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967-12-11
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Overview: A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-11
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The Prize
1963-12-25
The Prize
Overview: A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956-02-05
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Overview: A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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Women in the Night
1948-01-02
Women in the Night
Overview: During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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The Killers
1964-07-07
The Killers
Overview: A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-07
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The Gangster
1947-11-25
The Gangster
Overview: Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-25
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Nightmare
1956-08-20
Nightmare
Overview: Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-20
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The Mummy's Curse
1944-12-22
The Mummy's Curse
Overview: After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina Mansouri, who seeks help and protection at a swamp draining project.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-22
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The Killers
1946-08-30
The Killers
Overview: Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-30
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Johnny Tremain
1957-06-19
Johnny Tremain
Overview: When an injury bars him from pursuing his trade, Revolutionary War-era silversmith's apprentice Johnny Tremain finds a new life in the ranks of the Sons of Liberty army, taking part in the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere's legendary ride.
Genres: Drama Family War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-19
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The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
1946-09-03
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
Overview: Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuous, everyday occurrence leads Linda into a labyrinth of murder, blackmail and intrigue.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-03
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The Invisible Wall
1947-10-15
The Invisible Wall
Overview: A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-15
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4 for Texas
1963-12-21
4 for Texas
Overview: In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with Elya Carlson and Jarret with Maxine Richter. But Matson is still on the loose, and a scheming banker threatens both Thomas and Jarrett.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-21
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The Inner Circle
1946-08-07
The Inner Circle
Overview: A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-07
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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
1966-04-10
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Overview: Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
Genres: Horror Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-10
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The Cobweb
1955-06-07
The Cobweb
Overview: Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-07
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Good Morning, Miss Dove
1955-11-23
Good Morning, Miss Dove
Overview: Miss Dove is a prim New England school teacher who is treasured by her students in the small town of Liberty Hill. When she falls ill, a kindly doctor, who is a former student of Miss Dove's, comes to her aid. As many of her pupils, present and past, come to see her in the hospital, they reveal how Miss Dove has greatly impacted their lives over the years. These visitors include a police officer, a playwright, a banker, a convict, and an unmarried mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-23
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Women at War
1943-10-02
Women at War
Overview: Three young women arrive at the Women's Army Corps facility in Fort Des Moines for varied reasons and with different goals. Mary Savage is a war widow who wants to become an officer, farm girl Stormy Hart wants to become involved in motor transport, and Lorna Travis seeks to win the approval of her father, a major general, who has very chauvinist views on the role of women in the military. Intensive training and guidance prepares the three to make a contribution to the success of the upcoming war games conducted by General Travis and validate the value of the WACS to the war effort.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-02
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Flaming Star
1960-12-20
Flaming Star
Overview: Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the Burton family is split between loyalties.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-20
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Truck Busters
1943-01-28
Truck Busters
Overview: An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-28
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A Rage to Live
1965-10-20
A Rage to Live
Overview: Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to spread about her behavior, Grace becomes a major source of heartache for her mother and a big source of concern to her brother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-20
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Murder Is My Business
1946-03-07
Murder Is My Business
Overview: Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.
Genres: Crime Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-07
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Raiders of Ghost City
1944-07-25
Raiders of Ghost City
Overview: During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California. Can they be brought to justice?
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-25
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Special Agent
1949-07-22
Special Agent
Overview: A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-22
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Incident in an Alley
1962-05-16
Incident in an Alley
Overview: A policeman is accused of manslaughtering a 14-year-old boy but is acquitted of all charges. Still, he feels a lot of guilt and begins to doubt if he really is innocent after all.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-16
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Cattle King
1963-07-08
Cattle King
Overview: A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-08
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The Careless Years
1957-09-02
The Careless Years
Overview: A high school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove, and, unable to stand the pressure, the couple quit school and flee to Mexico.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-02
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The First Time
1952-01-31
The First Time
Overview: A married couple welcomes their first child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-31
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Dragnet
1954-09-04
Dragnet
Overview: Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster's brutal murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-04
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Three Brave Men
1956-12-01
Three Brave Men
Overview: A lawyer takes the case of a Navy clerk who sues after he's fired for suspected Communist beliefs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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The Scarlet Horseman
1946-01-22
The Scarlet Horseman
Overview: Government agents work to interfere with schemes to trick the Comanches into war with the Texans.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-22
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Phantom of the Plains
1945-09-07
Phantom of the Plains
Overview: Red Ryder tries to warn a duchess that her newfound beau has a history of murdering his wives.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-07
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One Man's Way
1964-02-26
One Man's Way
Overview: Reverend Norman Vincent Peale fights to bring his message to the nation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-26
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Woman of the Year
1976-07-28
Woman of the Year
Overview: The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-28
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Cover Up
1949-02-25
Cover Up
Overview: Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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The Killer Is Loose
1956-02-03
The Killer Is Loose
Overview: A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-03
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The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
1970-10-13
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Overview: Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-13
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Judgment at Nuremberg
1961-12-18
Judgment at Nuremberg
Overview: In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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Woman They Almost Lynched
1953-03-20
Woman They Almost Lynched
Overview: Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-20
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Idea Girl
1946-02-08
Idea Girl
Overview: Larry Brewster, partner in the music publishing firm of Brewster and Crow, returns from a trip to find that his partner, J.C. Crow has hired Pat O'Rourke as a song plugger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-08
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Girls of the Big House
1945-11-02
Girls of the Big House
Overview: A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-02
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The Hired Man
1957-09-10
The Hired Man
Overview: The LA County sheriff's department is on the hunt for a man who approaches his victims as a prospective used car buyer. Directed by Don Siegel for the "Code 3" TV series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-10
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High Noon
1952-06-09
High Noon
Overview: Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Genres: Western Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-09
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The Spirit of St. Louis
1957-04-01
The Spirit of St. Louis
Overview: Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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House of Horrors
1946-03-29
House of Horrors
Overview: An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-29
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Daughter of the Mind
1969-12-09
Daughter of the Mind
Overview: Professor Samuel Hale Constable is a government expert in the field of cybernetics. He and his wheelchair-bound wife Lenore became parents late in life, only to lose their daughter Mary before she reached adolescence. Now their daughter's spirit seems to be reaching out to her grief-stricken father from beyond the grave, encouraging him to give up the important project on which he's been working.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-09
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The Old Texas Trail
1944-11-01
The Old Texas Trail
Overview: In this western, set in Texas, the brave heroes Rod, Fuzzy, and their good-guy gang attempt to keep a band of ruthless outlaws who are trying to take over the reins of a stage coach line.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-01
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Hail, Hero!
1969-10-04
Hail, Hero!
Overview: Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-04
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In Enemy Country
1968-07-01
In Enemy Country
Overview: Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-01
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Cyrano de Bergerac
1950-11-16
Cyrano de Bergerac
Overview: France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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Never Wave at a WAC
1953-01-28
Never Wave at a WAC
Overview: A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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Not as a Stranger
1955-07-01
Not as a Stranger
Overview: Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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Night Wind
1948-09-01
Night Wind
Overview: A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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The Wife of Monte Cristo
1946-04-22
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Overview: In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued by a cruel policeman (John Loder). The count's brave wife Haydée (Lenore Aubert) throws the cop off her husband's scent by dressing up as the masked avenger herself and proving that she too is most competent with a sword.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-22
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Edge of Darkness
1943-04-09
Edge of Darkness
Overview: The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-09
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Mission to Moscow
1943-04-29
Mission to Moscow
Overview: Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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