Richard Oswald
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Launching his career as an actor on the Viennese stage, Richard Oswald made his film directorial debut at age 24 with Das eisener Kreuz (1914). In 1916, Oswald set up his own production company, writing and directing most of the films himself. His... more
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Cast: Buster Keaton Charlie Ruggles Alan Mowbray Fritz Feld Peggy Ann Garner
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 75min
Adapted from a play by Honore de Balzac, Lovable Cheat offers a veritable smorgasbord of Hollywood's top character actors. The title character, one Claude Mercadet, is played by Charlie Ruggles. Posing as a wealthy Parisian, Mercadet fleeces friends...
Cast: Paul Ivano Edward Kay Richard Oswald Gilbert Roland Dewey Robinson
Tags: Adventure Drama Prison Film Adventure Drama
Length: 67min
By Monogram standards, the cast of Isle of Missing Men was Academy Award calibre. John Howard and Gilbert Roland head a group of prisoners who try to escape from an island prison colony. Leading lady Helen Gilbert is willing to wait for her beloved...
Cast: Conrad Veidt Richard Oswald Madeleine Robinson Roger Duchesne
Tags: Adventure
Length: 100min
Though its title translates as Storm over Asia, this French melodrama bears no relation to the Pudovkin film of the same name. Conrad Veidt stars as a soldier of fortune who spearheads an expedition in Mongolia in hopes of finding hitherto untapped...
Cast: Richard Oswald Albert Basserman Oscar Homolka Fritz Kortner
Length: 83min
In this German drama, a French military officer finds himself discriminated against during a trial because he is Jewish. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Richard Oswald
Length: 89min
Also known as Unholy Tales, the German-made Tales of the Uncanny is a talking-picture homage to the impressionistic "nightmare" films of the German silent cinema. In the manner of the later British Dead of Night, several horror stories are linked...
Der Hauptmann von Koepenick (1931)
Cast: Richard Oswald Willi Schur Max Adalbert Max Guelstorff
Tags: Docudrama Biopic War Drama War
Length: 96min
In this drama, set in Germany during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm, a practical joker cons a town. It is based upon the true tale of a daring shoemaker who dons a captain's uniform and leads a troop of soldiers into a small town of Koepenick. He...
Schuberts Fruhlingstraum (1932)
Cast: Richard Oswald Lucie Englisch Gretl Theimer
Length: 83min
This German operetta is one of several of the period utilizing events (both actual and imagined) in the life of composer Franz Schubert. Carl Joeken is cast as Schubert, who though homely and impoverished manages to find time for romance -- when he...
My Song Goes Round the World (1933)
Cast: Richard Oswald John Loder Charlotte Ander Josef Schmidt
Length: 68min
Filmed in German and English back in 1932, this Pagliacci-like musical drama serves as a superb showcase for internationally famous tenor Josef Schmidt. The story is motivated by beautiful young Nina (Charlotte Ander) who falls in love, sight unseen,...
Ein Leid Geht Um Die Welt (1933)
Cast: Richard Oswald Charlotte Ander Fritz Kampers Josef Schmidt Viktor de Kowa
Length: 75min
Because of his Jewish heritage, fabled German singing star Joseph Schmidt was forced out of his native country in the 1930s by Hitler's minions. He moved to France, where he was likewise banished when the Nazis marched into Paris in 1940. Two years...
Cast: Richard Oswald Michael Bohnen Gretl Theimer Else Elster
Length: 92min
Viktoria (Friedl Schuster) is the wife of the American Ambassador of Peking. The Hussar (Michael Bohnen) is a Hungarian military officer, and Viktoria's former sweetheart. Captured by the Russians, the hero escapes to Peking, where he is given shelter...
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