John Halliday
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American actor John Halliday went the usual route of Brooklyn-born performers by hiding behind a stage British accent in his theatrical and film performances. Except for a few awkward early-talkie appearances where he's laying it on too thick (Perfect... more
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Cast: Constance Bennett Pat O'Brien Edgar Buchanan John Halliday Melville Cooper
Tags: Adventure Drama Escape Film War Drama Action Adventure
Length: 74min
The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The ship...
Cast: Ingrid Bergman Leslie Howard Cecil Kellaway David O. Selznick John Halliday
Tags: Romantic Drama Melodrama Drama Romance
Length: 70min
Gregory Ratoff directed David O. Selznick's richly produced American remake of the Swedish film directed by Gustav Molander and starring Ingrid Bergman, who re-creates her role here. The story -- based on the original screenplay by Molander and Gosta...
Cast: Henry Fonda Madeleine Carroll Leo Carrillo John Halliday Vladimir Sokoloff
Tags: Adventure Drama War Drama Adventure Drama War
Length: 73min
Since the United States was officially neutral in the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Loyalists against Franco's forces didn't find much favor in Hollywood; this drama, produced by Walter Wanger, was one of the few films to deal with the...
Cast: Gary Cooper Marlene Dietrich William Frawley Ernst Lubitsch Akim Tamiroff
Length: 89min
In this frothy romantic adventure, Marlene Dietrich plays Madeleine de Beaupre, a devious jewel thief. After sneaking a valuable string of pearls away from jeweler Aristide Duval (Ernest Cossart), Madeleine attempts to flee Paris, leaving a trail that...
Cast: Melvyn Douglas Warren William John Halliday Nat Pendleton Franz Waxman
Tags: Crime Thriller Master Criminal Films Mystery Crime
Length: 81min
This follow-up to MGM's 1932 John Barrymore vehicle Arsene Lupin stars the ineluctable Melvyn Douglas. Reported to be dead, suave gentleman jewel thief Arsene Lupin (Douglas) resurfaces under the assumed name of Rene Farrand. Intending to follow the...
Cast: Robert Cummings Gary Cooper Marsha Hunt John Halliday Hans Dreier
Tags: Crime Drama Drama
Length: 70min
Hollywood Boulevard is a trenchant look at the underside of Tinseltown. Though the nominal hero is a disillusioned screenwriter played by Robert Cummings (whose dialogue anticipates the lines spoken by William Holden in 1950's Sunset Boulevard), the...
Cast: Gary Cooper Ida Lupino Henry Hathaway Ann Harding John Halliday
Tags: Romance
Length: 88min
&"I'll See You in My Dreams" could well have been the theme music of Peter Ibbetson, the second film version of George du Maurier's 1891 novel. Peter Ibbetson (Gary Cooper) is an architect who, while working on a restoration job for the British Duke...
Cast: Robert Cummings William Frawley John Halliday Roscoe Karns Veda Ann Borg
Tags: Musical
Length: 65min
In this musical, a young lady is sent to an East coast finishing school. She doesn't realize that it is a bogus school run by an unemployed stage troupe, her fellow students are chorus girls, and the faculty is comprised of the troupe's star act. The...
Cast: John Halliday Josephine Hutchinson William Von Brincken Eily Malyon William Harrigan
Tags: Musical
Length: 68min
American opera baritone George Houston, who later gained a measure of fame as a western hero, made his film debut in The Melody Lingers On. Houston plays Salvini, a dashing Italian army captain who enjoys a brief romantic fling with concert pianist...
Cast: Fredric March Merle Oberon Samuel Goldwyn Herbert Marshall Murdock MacQuarrie
Tags: Melodrama War Romance Drama Romance
Length: 110min
Samuel Goldwyn's The Dark Angel is a sumptuously produced soap opera with a poignant "Enoch Arden" style denouement. Fredric March, Merle Oberon and Herbert Marshall star respectively as Alan Trent, Kitty Vane and Gerald Shannon, friends since...
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