Ludwig Donath
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 05, 1900
Deathday: September 29, 1967
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Gilda
1946-04-25
Gilda
Overview: A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-25
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Blondie Knows Best
1946-10-17
Blondie Knows Best
Overview: Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray. The upshot of all this is that Dagwood ends up in a lunatic asylum, forcing Blondie to come to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-17
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Sirocco
1951-06-13
Sirocco
Overview: A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-13
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Hangmen Also Die!
1943-04-15
Hangmen Also Die!
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-15
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Torn Curtain
1966-07-15
Torn Curtain
Overview: During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-15
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The Jolson Story
1946-10-10
The Jolson Story
Overview: At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business. Gradually working his way up through the vaudeville ranks, Asa — now calling himself Al Jolson — joins a blackface minstrel troupe and soon builds a reputation as a consummate performer. But as his career grows in size, so does his ego, resulting in battles in business as well as in his personal life.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-10
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The Killer That Stalked New York
1950-10-06
The Killer That Stalked New York
Overview: In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-06
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Too Many Thieves
1966-10-13
Too Many Thieves
Overview: When some priceless Macedonian treasures are swiped, lawyer Falk arrives to get to the bottom of things.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-13
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Jolson Sings Again
1949-08-17
Jolson Sings Again
Overview: In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the appeal of the spotlight isn't what it used to be. This time Jolson trades in the stage for life in the fast lane: women, horses, travel. It takes the death of Moma Yoelson and World War II to bring Jolson back to earth - and to the stage. Once again teamed with manager Steve Martin, Jolson travels the world entertaining troops everywhere from Alaska to Africa. When he finally collapses from exhaustion it takes young, pretty nurse Ellen Clark to show him there's more to life than "just rushing around".
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-17
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To the Ends of the Earth
1948-02-07
To the Ends of the Earth
Overview: A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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The Devil's Mask
1946-05-23
The Devil's Mask
Overview: A San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found a shrunken native human head, neatly packaged. The perplexed police contact a local anthropology museum about this unclaimed piece of grisly baggage, where they intersect with Jack and Doc, two private eyes, called there to meet a mysterious woman who had a case for them and wanted to meet in private.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-23
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Counter-Attack
1945-04-26
Counter-Attack
Overview: Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-26
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The Lovable Cheat
1949-05-11
The Lovable Cheat
Overview: Posing as a wealthy Parisian, Mercadet fleeces friends and casual acquaintances alike. He is forced into this life of crime to keep up appearances, so that his daughter Julie can land herself a rich husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-11
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The Great Caruso
1951-04-16
The Great Caruso
Overview: Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera. At first, his lack of education and poor background make him an outcast in the high-class opera world. Eventually, his voice wins him both fans and the hand of his love, Dorothy. But his nonstop pace and desire to perform at any cost eventually take their toll on the singer's health.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-16
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Mystery Submarine
1950-12-01
Mystery Submarine
Overview: Posing as an ex-German medical officer, a U. S. Navy Intelligence Officer sets out to rescue a kidnapped scientist, and sink a Nazi submarine, hiding off the coast of South America.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-01
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The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
1943-09-10
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
Overview: Austrian actor Franz Huber, known for his impressions, is captured by the Gestapo and forced into plastic surgery to become Hitler's body double. Their plan is to poison Hitler and use Huber to take control of the Reich. Meanwhile, Huber's wife Anna sees her life coming undone as her husband has disappeared and her two sons are indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-10
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Renegades
1946-06-13
Renegades
Overview: The daughter of a prominent citizen marries an outlaw's son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-13
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Sins of Jezebel
1953-09-04
Sins of Jezebel
Overview: The aging king of Israel, Ahab, falls under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming Pagan woman named Jezebel and, against the advice of his advisers and the prophet Elijah, marries her. Her plan to introduce her idols to Israel angers God, who wreaks vengeance on Israel.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-04
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The Spy in the Green Hat
1967-02-03
The Spy in the Green Hat
Overview: "Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-03
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Sealed Verdict
1948-11-05
Sealed Verdict
Overview: John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the names of witnesses who will clear his name. This sends the Major in a search through the ruins of post-war Germany to determine the degree of the general's guilt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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Girls to Marry
1932-04-14
Girls to Marry
Overview: Three brothers lead the life of bachelors and their rent is overdue. The landlord who also happens to be a matchmaker tries to marry off the oldest brother to a rich girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-04-14
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Journey Into Light
1951-09-28
Journey Into Light
Overview: John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-28
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The Fighting O'Flynn
1949-02-26
The Fighting O'Flynn
Overview: A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-26
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Theodor Herzl, Standard-Bearer of the Jewish People
1921-07-30
Theodor Herzl, Standard-Bearer of the Jewish People
Overview: This early film biography of the founder of modern Zionism depicts a young Herzl learning about Jewish persecution throughout the ages and developing his theory of political Zionism, which he saw as the only solution to anti-semitism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-30
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Prison Ship
1945-11-15
Prison Ship
Overview: Panic arises among Allied POWs aboard a Japanese freighter when they learn that the ship is actually a decoy target for American submarines on night patrol. The prisoners unite and attack their Japanese captors just as an American sub surfaces and, not knowing the prisoners are aboard, prepares to torpedo the ship.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-15
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Lady from Chungking
1942-12-21
Lady from Chungking
Overview: During World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to rescue two downed Flying Tigers pilots who are currently in the custody of the Japanese. The rescue mission takes on even more importance with the arrival of a Japanese general, which signals a major offensive taking place in the area.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-21
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This Land Is Mine
1943-05-07
This Land Is Mine
Overview: Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-07
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The Veils of Bagdad
1953-10-06
The Veils of Bagdad
Overview: Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader Mustapha to unite the hill tribes and overthrow the emperor. The intrigue mounts as Antar falls in love with dancer Selima, who tries to avenge her father's death against Hammam's right-hand-man Kasseim, whose wife Rosanna has fallen in love with Antar!
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-06
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He's Alive
He's Alive
Overview: An American neo-Nazi is visited by the ghost of Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
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There's a Girl in My Heart
1949-12-19
There's a Girl in My Heart
Overview: A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-19
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My Pal Gus
1952-12-01
My Pal Gus
Overview: A single father falls in love with his son's schoolteacher.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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Cigarette Girl
1947-02-13
Cigarette Girl
Overview: A young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-13
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The Secret Code
1942-09-04
The Secret Code
Overview: A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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The Great Sinner
1949-06-29
The Great Sinner
Overview: A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-29
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Above Suspicion
1943-05-31
Above Suspicion
Overview: Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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Margin for Error
1943-02-10
Margin for Error
Overview: When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-10
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The Dybbuk
1960-10-03
The Dybbuk
Overview: The Dybbuk is a made for TV film adaptation of a classic Jewish folktale. The story is about a young Jewish man, Sender (Theodore Bikel) who loves a young Jewish woman, Leah (Carol Lawrence) but her father arranges her marriage with another man. The grief of this causes Sender to die, but his spirit passes into the body of his beloved on her wedding day. Rabbi Azrael (Ludwig Donath), who serves as our narrator through the beginning of the film, is charged with the task of exercising Sender’s Dybbuk (sometimes defined as a malicious spirit or demon who possesses the living) from Leah’s body.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-03
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To Die in Paris
1968-01-01
To Die in Paris
Overview: In occupied France during World War II, a resistance leader is accused of betraying his own side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Master Race
1944-09-22
The Master Race
Overview: When allied troops liberate a small battle-scarred Belgium town in 1944 the American and British commanders do all they can to help the war-weary people back on their feet. There are mental and physical wounds to heal, fields to plough, the church to rebuild. But a top Nazi, knowing the War is lost, has infiltrated the town and is fostering dissent and disunity.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-22
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Reunion in France
1942-12-25
Reunion in France
Overview: Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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Judgment at Nuremberg
1959-04-16
Judgment at Nuremberg
Overview: Judgment at Nuremberg is an American television play broadcast live on April 16, 1959, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. It was a courtroom drama written by Abby Mann and directed by George Roy Hill that depicts the trial of four German judicial officials as part of the Nuremberg trials. Claude Rains starred as the presiding judge with Maximilian Schell as the defense attorney, Melvyn Douglas as the prosecutor, and Paul Lukas as the former German Minister of Justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-16
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