Biography: Conrad Veidt |
Like so many German actors who played Nazis during World War II, Conrad Veidt was a fervent anti-Nazi and had fled Europe just one step ahead of the storm troopers. Veidt began his career at age 20 under the guidance of the great Max Reinhardt. His... more
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Cast: Michael Curtiz Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman
Tags: Romance War Romance Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 102min
One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of omance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard categorization. Simply put, it is the story of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a world-weary ex-freedom...
Cast: Fred MacMurray
Tags: Political Thriller Glamorized Spy Film Spy Film
Length: 91min
If you believe all-American Fred MacMurray as an Oxford don, you'll probably swallow the rest of Above Suspicion. Newly married to Joan Crawford, MacMurray goes on a honeymoon in prewar Germany. Actually it's more business than pleasure: they are...
Cast: Peter Lorre Frank McHugh Jackie Gleason
Tags: Parody/Spoof Comedy
Length: 107min
Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving when Gloves tries to find out what's holding up his favorite restaurant's daily shipment of cheesecake. Paying a call on the...
Tags: War Unglamorized Spy Film Drama Action War Drama Spy Film
Length: 84min
This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi Agent starred real-life Hitler refugee Conrad Veidt as identical twins, one a timid stamp collector and rare book store owner,...
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 90min
Loretta Young is (mis)cast as a prima ballerina, who reaches the top of her profession and marries her demanding instructor (Conrad Veidt). Still, Loretta can't help reminiscing on the past loves in her life. She flashes back to her early days as a...
Tags: Slapstick Comedy Thriller Comedy
Length: 78min
Though based on a stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter (previously filmed as an Ernest Truex vehicle in 1933), MGM's Whistling in the Dark was clearly inspired by the success of Paramount's Bob Hope comedy-mystery The Ghost...
Cast: Norma Shearer Conrad Veidt Mervyn LeRoy
Tags: War Drama Adventure Thriller War
Length: 104min
Based on a novel by Ethel Vance, Escape stars Robert Taylor as a young American, the son of a widowed European woman (Alla Nazimova). The mother has been imprisoned in a German concentration camp, compelling her son to ignore America's neutrality and...
Cast: Sabu
Tags: Costume Adventure Fantasy Adventure Fantasy
Length: 106min
In ancient Bagdad, the young prince Ahmad (John Justin) is betrayed, deposed, and imprisoned by his vizier Jaffar (Conrad Veidt), an evil and calculating man who is also a master of the Black Arts. But Ahmad is saved from prison, and certain...
Cast: Joan Crawford George Cukor
Length: 107min
A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan Crawford's best vehicles. Told in flashback from the vantage point of a murder trial, the story concerns a female criminal whose face...
Cast: Michael Powell
Tags: Romantic Adventure Spy Film
Length: 92min
The Danish freighter Helvig approaches English waters in early 1940 and, in keeping with the needs of British security, it is boarded by customs and naval officials in search of contraband cargo. Her skipper, Captain Anderson (Conrad Veidt), is...
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