Tag Archives: Akim Tamiroff

Christopher Powell is in Malaysia with his fiancée and her father, capturing wild animals. While out hunting, he is attacked by a tiger, and his native guides run away

Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet.

Douglas Fairbanks jr plays Siamese twins, separated by a good doctor [scalpel hemostat sutures quickly!!] after their parents are killed by Vendetta

With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930’s Texas Rangers are called in.

A doctor’s medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl.

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists

While sailing lawfully up the Yangste river in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire.

My Girl Tisa gave American audiences their first real glimpse of the charms of Lilli Palmer, who had been making waves in Great Britain in a number of films for a decade previously. Here she has the starring role as a Hungarian immigrant dealing with the plight of survival in New York’s Lower East Side, swarming with tenement apartments, sweatshops and all the rascals needed to keep the plot spinning. Sam Wanamaker was a pleasant choice for a co-star and Warners surrounded them with a top notch supporting cast, headed by Akim Tamiroff (studying hard for his naturalization test), Hugo Haas, Stella Adler and Alan Hale and gave the production some nice pictorial touches with regard to costumes and music for the early 20th century flavor.

Sir Joel Cadman, a mad scientist, kidnaps his victims and cuts open their brains in an effort to discover a means to cure his wife’s brain tumor.

June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border–Corporal John Bramble, who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel…soon to be German HQ. To survive, Bramble assumes an identity which proves perilous. The new guest of honor is none other than Rommel, hinting of his secret strategy, code-named ‘five graves.’ And the fate of the British in Egypt depends on whether a humble corporal can penetrate the secret…