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Tag Archives: Gerd Oswald
Paris Holiday (1958) Gerd Oswald, Bob Hope, Fernandel, Anita Ekberg
American comedian Bob Hunter, on a luxury liner to France with French counterpart Fernandel Read More »
Bunny O’Hare (1971) Gerd Oswald, Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Cassidy
Aged Bunny O’Hare has just lost everything, the Bank of New Mexico which has foreclosed on her mortgage and demolished her house. Read More »
Valerie (1957) Gerd Oswald, Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel
John Garth (Sterling Hayden) is tried for critically wounding his wife Valerie (Anita Ekberg) Read More »
The Death Eye of Ceylon (1963) Gerd Oswald, Giovanni Roccardi, Lex Barker, Ann Smyrner, Magali Noël
Professor Ferlach and his daughter Helga undertake an expedition to Ceylon to look for a statue of Buddha with a priceless ruby set on its forehead. Read More »
The Brass Legend (1956) Gerd Oswald, Hugh O’Brian, Nancy Gates, Raymond Burr, Western
A Kiss Before Dying (1956) Gerd Oswald, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Bud Corliss (Wagner) is an ambitious student who is wooing Dorothy Kingship (Woodward) purely for her father’s mining fortune. Read More »
Crime of Passion (1957) Gerd Oswald, Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Kathy is a smart and tough 1950’s advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name plastered on billboards all over the city. One day, Bill Doyle, a Los Angeles detective, walks into her office – it is instant attraction. After marrying Bill, Kathy gives up her career and becomes a homemaker. However, she is not your typical 1950’s homemaker. After hosting several cocktail parties in their San Fernando Valley home, she realizes that Bill is content with his position, and shows no ambition in furthering himself. Kathy will not sit idly by while everyone around her is “moving up in the world”. She personally takes upon herself the task of pushing Bill’s career along, even if it comes down to murder.
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Screaming Mimi (1958) Gerd Oswald, Anita Ekberg, Philip Carey, Gypsy Rose Lee, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Exotic dancer Virginia Wilson sees a man get shot moments after he tries to knife her in a shower, so she goes to Dr. Greenwood a psychiatrist for therapy. He falls in love with her and takes over her life, although she insists on continuing her career at the El Madhouse nightclub. The club’s tough owner is none other than Gypsy Rose Lee who plays ‘Gypsy’ and sings an incredibly bad song (“Put the Blame on Mame”) when Virginia is late one night. The traumatized Virginia is suspected of a series of murders. Each victim had purchased a contorted sculpture of a woman called the Screaming Mimi, which was created by her step-brother Charlie who was also responsible for shooting her attacker. It’s up to a handsome columnist Bill Sweeny to figure it all out.
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Schachnovelle / Brainwashed (1960) Gerd Oswald, Curd Jürgens, Claire Bloom, Hansjörg Felmy, Drama
In 1938 Austria shortly after the Nazi occupation, a prominent Viennese intellectual, Werner von Basil, is arrested for smuggling art treatures out of the country and imprisoned by the Gestapo in a hotel room without any mental sustence of any kind to break him down to make him talk while a young ballerina, named Irene Adreny whom is the lover of the SS officer Berger playing mind games on von Basil, tries to intervene and help the poor intellectual keep his mind intact.
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