Steven Geray
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Steven Geray, born Istvan Gyergyay (10 November 1904 – 26 December 1973) was a film actor who appeared in over 100 films and dozens of television programs. Geray appeared in Spellbound (1945), Gilda (1946), In a Lonely Place (1950), All About Eve (1950), Call Me Madam (1953) and To Catch a Thief (1955).
He was born in Ungvár, Austria-Hungary (now Uzhgorod, Ukraine) and educated at the University of Budapest. He made his first stage appearance at the Hungarian National Theater under his real name and after nearly four years he made his London stage debut (as Steven Geray) in 1934, appearing in Happy Week-End!. He began appearing in English-speaking films in 1935 and moved to Hollywood in 1941. He appeared alongside his wife, Magda Kun, in the 1935 film Dance Band.
Geray was cast as the lead in a low-budget film noir So Dark the Night (1946). Even with its limited budget, it received great critical reviews and enabled its director Joseph H. Lewis to later direct A-pictures. Geray continued to work on television and in films into the 1960s. Among them a guest appearance on Perry Mason in 1962 as extortionist and murder victim Franz Moray in "The Case of the Stand-in Sister," three episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as French dress designer Gaston Broussard in 1956, including the over the top "A Paris Creation" and various doctor roles on The Danny Thomas Show.
Geray spent some time in the late-1960s in Estes Park, Colorado, where he directed local theater (The Fantasticks). He owned and ran a bar in Estes Park from 1969 to 1970.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2138 |
| Birthday | 1904-11-10 |
| Place of Birth | Ungvár, Austria-Hungary, now Uzhgorod, Ukraine |
| Also Known As | Istvan Gyergyay, István Gyergyai, Steve Geray, |
1966
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
4.259/29
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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1933
Marie, légende hongroise
0/0
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Marie, légende hongroise
1946
Gilda
7.465/648
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
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Gilda
1946
Blondie Knows Best
7/6
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...
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Blondie Knows Best
1945
Spellbound
7.391/969
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, dis...
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Spellbound
1950
A Lady Without Passport
5.283/23
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A Lady Without Passport
1939
This Man in Paris
10/1
A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
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This Man in Paris
1956
Attack
6.819/138
Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must establish artillery observation posts in a strategic a...
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Attack
1953
The Golden Blade
6.652/23
Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Tho...
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The Golden Blade
1955
A Bullet for Joey
5.839/28
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to car...
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A Bullet for Joey
1942
Once Upon a Honeymoon
6.283/53
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
1944
The Conspirators
6.3/15
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1944
The Mask of Dimitrios
7.019/54
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1946
So Dark the Night
6.059/34
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1950
Woman on the Run
6.786/112
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Woman on the Run
1951
The House on Telegraph Hill
6.441/68
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1945
Cornered
6.178/45
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
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1955
New York Confidential
5.967/15
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New York Confidential
1942
Castle in the Desert
7.139/18
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Castle in the Desert
1944
In Society
5.875/24
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1952
The Big Sky
6.531/98
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The Big Sky
1948
The Dark Past
5.963/41
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The Dark Past
1948
I Love Trouble
6.452/21
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
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I Love Trouble
1943
Phantom of the Opera
6.191/212
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful...
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Phantom of the Opera
1952
Affair in Trinidad
6.367/60
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
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Affair in Trinidad
1950
The Second Woman
5.544/34
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramoder...
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1954
Tobor the Great
5.339/31
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Tobor the Great
1947
Blind Spot
5.136/11
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1953
Call Me Madam
6.24/25
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Call Me Madam
1950
In a Lonely Place
7.623/660
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
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In a Lonely Place
1954
The French Line
4.364/11
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
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The French Line
1947
The Unfaithful
5.932/22
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her l...
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The Unfaithful
1943
Whistling in Brooklyn
7/4
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
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Whistling in Brooklyn
1942
The Moon and Sixpence
6.289/19
Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, hi...
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The Moon and Sixpence
1942
Eyes in the Night
6.083/36
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
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Eyes in the Night
1944
The Seventh Cross
6.837/43
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The Seventh Cross
1947
The Crime Doctor's Gamble
6/4
While visiting France, a criminal psychologist tries to clear a disturbed young man of his father's murder.
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The Crime Doctor's Gamble
1959
Verboten!
6.646/24
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.
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Verboten!
1955
Kiss of Fire
5.5/2
In 1700, a Spanish princess travels from New Mexico to California with ruthless outlaw El Tigre as guide.
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1955
Artists and Models
6.67/135
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1945
The Crimson Canary
7.5/2
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1944
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
6.571/7
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic WW2 training film.
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1954
Paris Playboys
5/3
Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt...
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1947
Mr. District Attorney
6.286/7
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
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1943
Pilot #5
6/9
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Pilot #5
1939
Inspector Hornleigh
7.5/7
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon...
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1950
Harbor of Missing Men
6.333/3
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1950
Pygmy Island
4.75/4
Jungle Jim searches for a female Army captain who's gone missing.
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Pygmy Island
1937
The High Command
6/10
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
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The High Command
1949
Once More, My Darling
6.5/4
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to th...
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Once More, My Darling
1951
Target Unknown
7/1
World War II drama about members of an American bomber squadron who are captured and held prisoners by the German army.
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Target Unknown
1949
Sky Liner
4.833/6
Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans t...
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Sky Liner
1943
Night Plane from Chungking
6.5/2
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a...
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Night Plane from Chungking
1948
Port Said
7.5/2
Travel author Leslie Sears arrives in Cairo, Egypt, to meet with Greg Stewart, an old war buddy who is a theater booking agent in Port Said. Leslie te...
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Port Said
1952
Lady Possessed
5.5/5
A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, th...
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Lady Possessed
1951
Savage Drums
7/3
There is this little small-island kingdom located off the South China coast and the United States offers a pact of economic aid and military assistanc...
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Savage Drums
1959
Count Your Blessings
4.8/5
Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage quickly becomes unusual. Because Charles cheats on her...
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Count Your Blessings
1951
Little Egypt
8/1
A belly dancer causes a scandal with her suggestive dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.
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Little Egypt
1943
Heavenly Music
6.231/13
Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before he can take his place in the Hall of Music, a committ...
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Heavenly Music
1942
Secret Agent of Japan
5.5/4
World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
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Secret Agent of Japan
1953
The Royal African Rifles
9/1
A shipment of Vickers machine guns is stolen from a British warship in Bombasa Harbor, Africa, in 1914, and Denham is assigned to track them down. He...
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The Royal African Rifles
1945
Hotel Berlin
6.133/15
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.
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Hotel Berlin
1953
The Story of Three Loves
6.023/22
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
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The Story of Three Loves
1952
O. Henry's Full House
6.875/44
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is...
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O. Henry's Full House
1946
Deadline at Dawn
6.27/37
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Deadline at Dawn
1949
El Paso
5.971/17
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends h...
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El Paso
1942
Blue, White and Perfect
6.545/11
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly...
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Blue, White and Perfect
1944
Meet the People
5.833/6
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some importan...
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Meet the People
1950
All About Eve
8.1/1686
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Cha...
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All About Eve
1954
Knock on Wood
6.721/34
Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriag...
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Knock on Wood
1945
Mexicana
6/4
A Mexican crooner tries to put off fans by faking marriage to his American co-star.
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Mexicana
1935
Dance Band
6/2
Life gets complicated for bandleader Buddy when he falls for his greatest rival – the leader of an all-girl dance band!
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Dance Band
1949
Holiday in Havana
5.6/5
While working as a hotel busboy, aspiring bandleader Carlos Estrada tries to persuade singer Lolita Valdez to join him in a rhumba contest in Havana.
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Holiday in Havana
1932
Spring Shower
6/6
It tells the story of Marie, an austerely beautiful young peasant girl played by the French star, Annabella. She is seduced beneath a flowering tree b...
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Spring Shower
1941
Man at Large
6.5/2
FBI agent Bob Grayson works in collaboration with Max, a British agent posing as a fugitive German aviator. Meanwhile, fearless girl reporter Dallas D...
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Man at Large
1949
The Lone Wolf and His Lady
6/5
A newspaper man, and former jewel thief, is accused of gem theft.
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The Lone Wolf and His Lady
1947
Gunfighters
5.674/23
Gunfighter "Brazos" Kane lays aside his guns "forever" when he is forced to shoot his best friend, and decides to join another friend, Bob Tyrell, as...
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Gunfighters
1954
The Great Diamond Robbery
10/1
Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Rem...
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1937
Let's Make a Night of It
6/2
Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.
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Let's Make a Night of It
1940
Dark Streets of Cairo
7.5/2
A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
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Dark Streets of Cairo
1948
Ladies of the Chorus
6.656/32
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and P...
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Ladies of the Chorus
1936
A Star Fell from Heaven
10/1
In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs sl...
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A Star Fell from Heaven
1935
The Student's Romance
6.25/4
Based on the operetta I Lost My Heart in Heidelburg, which in turn owed a lot to that old chestnut The Student Prince. In 1825, impoverished composer...
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The Student's Romance
1944
Easy Life
5.5/4
In this entry in the MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series young Frank Davis, dropping out of school and joining a small-time hoodlum gang, finds out that l...
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Easy Life
1953
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
7.336/1054
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thin...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1956
Stagecoach To Fury
5.4/5
A group of stagecoach passengers are held hostage by bandits waiting for a shipment of gold they plan to steal.
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Stagecoach To Fury
1933
Pardon, tévedtem
7/1
Éva Balogh travels to Pest to attend her friend's wedding, but the wedding is cancelled because the groom backs out at the last minute (for the third...
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Pardon, tévedtem
1942
The Wife Takes a Flyer
5.2/5
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as t...
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
1952
Bal Tabarin
9/1
Story of a girl who witnesses murder of notorious international jewel thief. Afraid that the gang will attack her, she flees to Paris.
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Bal Tabarin
1943
To My Unborn Son
7.5/2
A Yugoslav man, dying after being shot while attempting to help defend his village, writes a letter of encouragement and hope to his unborn child, exp...
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To My Unborn Son
1945
Tarzan and the Amazons
6.3/90
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job...
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Tarzan and the Amazons
1942
The Mad Martindales
7.5/2
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
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The Mad Martindales
1942
A Gentleman at Heart
7.5/2
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ra...
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A Gentleman at Heart
1958
A Certain Smile
6.286/7
A pretty Parisian law student falls in love with her boyfriend's uncle.
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A Certain Smile
1942
For the Common Defense!
5/8
This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent tr...
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For the Common Defense!
1943
Above Suspicion
6.192/39
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Above Suspicion
1943
Background to Danger
6.661/28
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Background to Danger
1964
Wild and Wonderful
7/4
Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her...
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Wild and Wonderful
1949
Tell It to the Judge
6.625/8
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her...
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Tell It to the Judge
1952
Night Without Sleep
5.818/11
Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.
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Night Without Sleep
1938
Premiere
7.5/2
In Paris a leading theatre impresario is murdered on opening night, shortly after replacing his leading lady. A police Inspector in the audience takes...
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Premiere
1956
Meet Mrs. Swenson
5/1
An overworked housewife struggles to survive in an old house with an inadequate electrical supply and out-of-date appliances.
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Meet Mrs. Swenson
1943
Appointment in Berlin
7.083/6
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
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Appointment in Berlin
1966
The Swinger
5.286/14
An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
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The Swinger
1933
Az ellopott szerda
9/1
Advertising was already booming in 1933. Rohr, a Berlin soapmaker, was looking for a particularly attractive face to promote his new product. And he f...
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Az ellopott szerda
1954
Return of the Dead
5/1
A teenage girl is charged with the attempted murder of a gangland figure. Her mother has also been shot. To further complicate matters, the girl's fat...
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Return of the Dead
1947
When a Girl's Beautiful
8/1
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When a Girl's Beautiful
1946
The Return of Monte Cristo
6.25/4
The grandson of Edmond Dantes was cheated out of his fortune and falsely imprisoned, only to escape and wreak vengeance on his betrayers by assuming t...
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The Return of Monte Cristo
1964
The Evil of Frankenstein
6.17/115
Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountai...
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The Evil of Frankenstein
1932
Flying Gold
7/1
A shipment of gold being flown from Paris to Budapest is robbed in mid-air.
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