Meinhart Maur
Also Known As: Meinhardt Maur
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hajdúnánás, Hungary
Adult: No
Birthday: August 18, 1884
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 01, 1964
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The Return of the Frog
Overview: The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-24
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Dick Barton at Bay
Overview: David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).
Genres: Adventure Crime Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-02
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Die silberne Fessel
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-30
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The Huggetts Abroad
Overview: Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-21
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O-Kay for Sound
Overview: Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble--his major backer is threatening to stop financing his pictures. He finds a group of six wealthy individuals who may want to become investors in the studio if his disgruntled backer pulls out. Unfortunately, his bumbling runner Albert picks that day to invite six of his street musician friends to be in the film that is currently shooting at the studio, and Hyman mistakes them for the potential investors. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-09
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Doctor Syn
Overview: A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-25
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Der heulende Wolf
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-12-01
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The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Overview: In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is. Journalist Stix and architect Stark have an idea how to use this event. They proclaim, that O.F. is a former citizen of the town, who became a millionaire abroad. They tell their fellow citizens that the town still needs modernisation, like better hotels, nightclubs, shops, etc. And soon, Ostend is a boomtown, then a capital. The architect, responsible for the new buildings is finaly allowed to marry the mayor's daughter, while Stix marries the cabaret star and the widowed mayor his new secretary. The only problem is, O.F. hasn't shown up, while finance experts from all over the world are trying to solve the depression problem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-02
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Band Waggon
Overview: A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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21 Days Together
Overview: After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-07
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Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-10-06
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Caravan of Death
Overview: Caravan of Death (German: Die Todeskarawane) is a 1920 silent German film, it was an adaptation of the latter half of the Karl May novel From Baghdad to Stamboul, and is now considered to be lost. The film featured Bela Lugosi playing an Arab Sheik pitted against European travellers in an adventure story set in the Sahara. It was the second of three films released by Ustad based on desert adventure novels by Karl May. Although Karl May’s widow praised the film, critics were unimpressed and it was a commercial failure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-11-16
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Die Teufelsanbeter
Overview: In the wild, hardly explored mountains of Kurdish country lives the mysterious society of the Jesidi , who are called the devil worshipers by their opponents. In these mountains, shaded by dark fir trees, revenge and hatred reign and constant struggle between the countless races and sects. Strange festivals unite the fervor of thousands, crowned by the dramatic sacrificial death of one of their holy men. And yet, even in these pictures, which are filled with tremendous passion, there is no lack of warm humor and a cheerful, strong forgiving nature that leads everything to a liberating end. The film is believed to be lost.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-12-01
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An Englishman's Home
Overview: A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-27
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Harakiri
Overview: The daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to come back for her and his new child, but when he comes back to Japan, he brings his European wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-12-18
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The Tales of Hoffmann
Overview: A young poet named Hoffman broods over his failed romances. First, his affair with the beautiful Olympia is shattered when he realizes that she is really a mechanical woman designed by a scientist. Next, he believes that a striking prostitute loves him, only to find out she was hired to fake her affections by the dastardly Dapertutto. Lastly, a magic spell claims the life of his final lover.
Genres: Music Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-04
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Who Goes Next?
Overview: During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-01
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Never Let Me Go
Overview: An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-18
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It's Not Cricket
Overview: Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-01
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Moderne Töchter
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-07-01
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Va banque
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-06-27
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Sybill Morgan
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Wooden Horse
Overview: True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-16
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The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
Overview: In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-10-03
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The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship
Overview: When last we saw Kay Hoog (millionaire adventurer, courageous hunk), he’d been beset with tragedy. Having escaped an ancient Incan city by the skin of his gleaming teeth, Hoog looked forward to a few years of settled life with his (amicably) captured Incan lovely, Naela. But the past struck quickly. Hoog’s arch-nemesis, the homicidal femme Lio Sha, murdered Naela on the very grounds of Hoog’s estate, prompting him to swear revenge upon her and her criminal organization, the Spiders. Now he must find them, as the Spiders continue their global quest for the Buddha-head Diamond. The head, it’s said, has the power to restore Asia to world dominance.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-02-06
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Die beiden Gatten der Frau Ruth
Overview: A young academic decides to accept guardianship of the daughter of a late friend. Expecting her to be a young child, the household is shocked to find out she is in fact a young woman. The two marry but more miscommunications cause troubles in their relationship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-07-25
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Three Silent Men
Overview: An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-07
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Candlelight in Algeria
Overview: Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an important meeting held on Algeria's coast. The precise location of this vital secret gathering is upon a piece of film which must not fall into enemy hands
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-19
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The Black Tulip Festival
Overview: Based on the novel The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-10-30
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We’ll Smile Again
Overview: Nazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-07
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Rembrandt
Overview: A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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Decameron Nights
Overview: Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-13
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Zügelloses Blut 1. Teil: Luxusfieber
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Zügelloses Blut 2. Teil: Die Diamantenfalle
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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