Biography: Mischa Auer |
The screen's foremost "Mad Russian" (though he was more dour than demented in most of his movie appearances), Mischa Auer was the son of a Russian navy officer who died in the Russo-Japanese war. Auer's family scattered during the Bolshevik... more
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The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (1966)
Cast: Rossano Brazzi
Tags: Musical Fantasy Musical Family Holiday Film Children's Fantasy
Length: 88min
In this tuneful Italian holiday film a scroogy old miser decides to evict Santa Clause and Company from the North Pole because the dead-beats are behind on their rent. Children from around the world rally 'round the Jolly One and send him their...
Cast: Michel Piccoli
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy Crime
Length: 93min
Martine Carol plays the title character in the comedy melodrama Nathalie. The heroine is a professional model who becomes innocently mixed up in a robbery/murder case. Deciding to play detective, Nathalie leads both the authorities and the underworld...
Cast: Kenneth More Lloyd Nolan
Length: 109min
This was the last film for British director Wendy Toye whose special interests were always comedies and fantasies. In this light farce, the talented Kenneth More is Lt. Commander Bodger, a man with a penchant for honesty in moments when silence is...
Cast: Akim Tamiroff Michael Redgrave Orson Welles
Tags: Mystery Psychological Thriller
Length: 99min
Also known as Mr. Arkadin, this flawed late effort by director Orson Welles recalls the structure of Citizen Kane, centering around an investigation into the past of a powerful millionaire. This time around, however, the millionaire is very much...
Cast: Mischa Auer
Tags: Comedy
Length: 90min
Treize a Table (Thirteen at Table) was based on the hit play by Marc Gilbert Sauvajon. Micheline Presle stars as a woman suffering from Triskadecaphobia -- fear of the number 13. No matter how hard she tries, Micheline cannot avoid the "fatal" number,...
À Pied, à Cheval et en Spoutnik (1958)
Tags: Comedy Political Satire Satire
Length: 80min
In this French family-oriented comedy, a man with a passion for all animals takes on the Russians to protect a mouse and a dog from being sent up into space, via a satellite. He obtains them after the creatures escape and all the prompting from French...
Biancaneve e i Sette Lavri (1950)
Length: 82min
Character actor Mischa Auer tended to choose vehicles unworthy of his talents when he left Hollywood for Europe during the postwar era. Biancaneve e I Setti Lavri is a heavy-handed variation on the "Snow White" legend, with a gang of thieves replacing...
Length: 80min
The first of British director John Guillermin's two 1952 offerings was Song of Paris. Dennis Price stars as stomach-pill sales representative Matthew Ibbetson, who goes to Paris to close a business deal. While taking in the sights, Ibbetson...
Cast: Brigitte Bardot Jean Marais
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 95min
Futures Vedettes (Future Stars) relies upon the appeal of its cast to coast by. Jean Marais plays a handsome singing teacher who enthralls two of his nubile female students (Brigitte Bardot, Isabelle Pia). Their ardor for the teacher begins innocently...
Al Diavolo la Celebrita (1949)
Cast: Mario Monicelli
Tags: Romantic Fantasy Comedy Fantasy Comedy
Length: 80min
Al Diavolo con Celebrita is one of two Italian films hurriedly made in 1948 by comic actor Mischa Auer. Like the first (Snow White and the 7 Thieves), it is hardly representative of Auer at his best. The star plays U.S. diplomat Bernard Stork, whose...
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