All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Read More »
Tag Archives: Curd Jürgens
Adorable Sinner (1959) Robert Siodmak, Romy Schneider, Curd Jürgens, Pierre Blanchar
The Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her Read More »
Teheran 43: Spy Ring (1981) Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Curd Jürgens, Igor Kostolevskiy
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin (Igor Kostolevsky), a Soviet agent Read More »
Me and the Colonel (1958) Peter Glenville, Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens, Nicole Maurey
Jacobowsky, a Jewish refugee, flees from the Nazis with an aristocratic, anti-semitic Polish officer trying to get papers to England. Read More »
Goldengirl (1979) Joseph Sargent, Susan Anton, James Coburn, Curd Jürgens
A neo-Nazi doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed Read More »
The Rats (1955) Robert Siodmak, Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Heidemarie Hatheyer
In the early Fifties Pauline Karka (Maria Schell) comes to Berlin. She is pregnant and totally penniless. Read More »
Bitter Victory (1957) Nicholas Ray, Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman
In North Africa during World War II, Major David Brand is assigned to lead a British commando raid into German-held Benghazi Read More »
Das Bekenntnis der Ina Kahr (1954) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Curd Jürgens, Elisabeth Müller, Albert Lieven
Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Read More »
Hello-Goodbye (1970) Jean Negulesco, Ronald Neame, Michael Crawford, Geneviève Gilles, Curd Jürgens
Harry England, a British car salesman on a trip to France meets a Baroness when her Rolls-Royce Breaks down. Read More »
Psyche 59 (1964) Alexander Singer, Curd Jürgens, Patricia Neal, Samantha Eggar, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Alison Crawford lives a comfortable life with her husband Eric and their two children. Alison is blind and she knows that her illness is not physical but psychosomatic. Read More »
Wernher von Braun / I Aim at the Stars (1960) J. Lee Thompson, Curd Jürgens, Victoria Shaw, Herbert Lom, Biography, Drama
The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Read More »
Hide and Seek (1964) Cy Endfield, Ian Carmichael, Curd Jürgens, Janet Munro, Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama
A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. Read More »
Les espions / The Spies (1957) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, O.E. Hasse, Drama, Mystery
A psychiatrist, desperate for money to keep his faltering practice running, makes a deal with a spy to hide a mysterious person in his clinic in return for a million francs. Read More »
Ferry to Hong Kong (1959) Lewis Gilbert, Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Action, Adventure, Drama
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He’s sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad’s papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. It’s all one long, lazy voyage for Conrad until one fateful trip when an encounter with a typhoon and pirates forces Conrad to choose between an aimless drifter’s life and becoming a man again.
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The Blue Angel (1959) Edward Dmytryk, Curd Jürgens, May Britt, Theodore Bikel
Professor Immanuel Rath (Curt Jurgens)is a martinet botany professor at a German high school who finds post cards bearing the likeness of Lola-Lola (May Britt), “The Blue Angel”, in the possession of his pupils. He goes to the cafe where she is appearing to see if any of his pupils are there, and spots two of them. While chasing them, he encounters Lola-Lola and the troupe manager, Kiepert (Theodore Bikel.) He returns the next evening and becomes involved with Lola. His visit to the cafe, and the fact he spent the night with Lola, becomes common knowledge and he is forced to leave his school position. Despite the protests of his friends, he marries Lola, who is intrigued by the idea of being the wife of a professor. The intrigue doesn’t last long, as Rath is unable to get work because of his wife. He becomes a broken character, reduced to performing odd jobs around the troupe and living off the earnings of his wife.
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