A perfectly executed heist leads to murder and mayhem at a traveling circus. Read More »
Tag Archives: Leo Genn
The Velvet Touch (1948) Jack Gage, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor
Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. Read More »
Too Hot to Handle (1960) Terence Young, Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm
In London’s Soho, Johnny Solo runs the Pink Flamingo Club. He’s tough to intimidate. Read More »
Beyond Mombasa (1956) George Marshall, Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn
During the 1950s, American adventurer Matt Campbell arrives in Kenya to join his brother George. Read More »
Moby Dick (1956) John Huston, Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn
This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. Read More »
The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953) Alvin Ganzer, F. Hugh Herbert, Leo Genn, Don Taylor, Gene Barry
In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen Read More »
The Wooden Horse (1950) Jack Lee, Ian Dalrymple, Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel
In a POW camp, the Nazis have placed the huts far from the boundary so that any escape tunnel would have to be a long one. Read More »
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968) Charles Jarrott, Jack Palance, Denholm Elliott, Leo Genn
This made-for-television adaptation doesn’t waste time with preliminaries. Read More »
Quo Vadis (1951) Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann, Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn
Returning to Rome after three years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her, though as a Christian she wants nothing to do with a warrior. Read More »
The Snake Pit (1948) Anatole Litvak, Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Drama, Mystery
Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum…and can’t remember how she got there. Read More »
L’amant de lady Chatterley / Lady Chatterley’s lover (1955) Marc Allégret, Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, Erno Crisa, Drama
The Red Beret (1953) Terence Young, Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen, Drama, War
Alan Ladd is the focus of this story based on the wartime raid on the German radar station at Bruneval. Read More »
Era notte a Roma / It Was Night in Rome (1960) Roberto Rossellini, Leo Genn, Giovanna Ralli, Sergey Bondarchuk, Drama, War
During WW2, in Rome , a trio of escaped Allied POWs find themselves in limbo as they try to avoid re-capture and reach their dispersed units. Michael Pemberton is a British Major, Fyodor Aleksandrovic Nazukov is a Soviet Sergeant and Peter Bradley is an American Lieutenant. A beautiful young Italian woman, Esperia Belli, agrees to give them shelter. She knows that despite Italy’s efforts to break with Nazi Germany and join the Allies there are some Italians who are Fascist sympathizers and would gladly denounce Esperia to the German authorities. Hiding enemy soldiers or escaped POWs is punishable by death. Esperia hopes to get in contact with the Italian anti-Fascist resistance which could help the three escaped Allied POWs rejoin their respective armies. Until then, the fugitives are stuck in Esperia’s attic.
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Il trono di fuoco / The Bloody Judge (1970) Jesús Franco, Christopher Lee, Maria Schell, Leo Genn, Biography, Horror
Christopher Lee plays the Lord Chief Justice of 17th century England who condemns women as witches to further his political and sexual needs.
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