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Till We Meet Again (1936) Robert Florey, Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Michael, Lionel Atwill
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) Read More »
The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934) Ralph Murphy, William Cameron Menzies, Gertrude Michael, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Byron
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated–and a notorious jewel thief. Read More »
Prisoner of Japan (1942) Arthur Ripley, Edgar G. Ulmer, Alan Baxter, Gertrude Michael, Ernst Deutsch
On a small tropical island in the South Pacific, David Bowman (Alan Baxter), a young American planter Read More »
Four Hours to Kill! (1935) Mitchell Leisen, Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Gertrude Michael
A detective who has “four hours to kill” before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer Read More »
Three’s a Crowd (1945) Lesley Selander, Pamela Blake, Charles Gordon, Gertrude Michael
A woman suspected of murdering her fiancée becomes married to a man who is, ironically, the other suspect in the same murder. Read More »
Father Brown, Detective (1934) Edward Sedgwick, Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas, Gertrude Michael, Crime, Mystery
After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her. Read More »
The Last Outpost (1935) Charles Barton, Louis J. Gasnier, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Gertrude Michael, Action, Adventure, Romance
In World War I, British-officer Michael Andrews is captured by a band of Kurdish raiders on the Eastern Front, and is rescued by a man calling himself John Stevenson, although he refuses to tell his name to Andrews. The two men form a strange friendship, and help save an entire Kurdish village from a massacre and also avert a surprise attack on the British army-unit stationed there. Andrews suffers a wounded leg and is sent to the British military-hospital in Cairo. He falls in love with a nurse, Rosemary Haydon, and she with him, but she is married although she has not seen nor heard from her husband in over three years. It is at this point that the man who saved Andrews’ life turns up to claim his wife, who is Rosemary. The latter bids adieu to Andrews who does not know that the man he considers his best friend is also the husband of the woman he loves. But, by pure coincidence and chance, both Andrews and Rosemary’s husband come face-to-face again in a remote garrison that is under…
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