
Set in turn-of-the-century London, a woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend’s murder finds that she may be the next victim. Read More »
Tag Archives: Gregory Ratoff
Black Magic (1949) Gregory Ratoff, Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff

Novelist Alexander Dumas tells his writer-son of Joseph Balsamo, a gypsy boy in southern France who was embittered because his parents were wrongfully hanged Read More »
Barricade (1939) Gregory Ratoff, Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits. Read More »
The Corsican Brothers (1941) Gregory Ratoff, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff, Adventure, Romance

Douglas Fairbanks jr plays Siamese twins, separated by a good doctor [scalpel hemostat sutures quickly!!] after their parents are killed by Vendetta Read More »
Adam Had Four Sons (1941) Gregory Ratoff, Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, Susan Hayward, Drama, Romance

Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester.
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Im No Angel (1933) Wesley Ruggles, Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff

The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she’ll put her head into a lion’s muzzle! With this attraction the circus makes it to New York and Tira can persue her dearest occupation: flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents. Among the guys she searches the love of her life, from whom she only knows from a fortune-teller that he’ll be rich and have black hair. When she finally meets him, she becomes a victim of intrigue.
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