In 1909 Mary Archer, daughter of small-town bluebloods, awaits the return from Germany of sometime beau Jeff. Read More »
Tag Archives: Otto Kruger
Beauty for Sale (1933) Richard Boleslawski, Madge Evans, Alice Brady, Otto Kruger
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Read More »
Black Eyes (1939) Herbert Brenon, Otto Kruger, Mary Maguire, Walter Rilla
An embarrassed headwaiter provides the basis for this classical tale set in pre-war Russia. Read More »
Paris Interlude (1934) Edwin L. Marin, Madge Evans, Otto Kruger, Robert Young, Drama
Julie has a star crossed love with Sam, leaning on pal Cassie when sad. Read More »
Turn Back the Clock (1933) Edgar Selwyn, Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, Otto Kruger, Comedy, Drama
Joe and Mary run a tobacco store and are just scraping by. When old friend Ted comes into the store, they renew their friendship Read More »
Escape in the Fog (1945) Budd Boetticher, Otto Kruger, Nina Foch, William Wright
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. Read More »
Allotment Wives (1945) William Nigh, Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Story of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers’ pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action. Read More »
Glamorous Night (1937) Brian Desmond Hurst, Mary Ellis, Otto Kruger, Victor Jory, Drama
The popular Ivor Novello musical play Glamorous Night was given a conservative film treatment in 1937–minus much of the Novello score that had made it famous. Opera singer Mary Ellis plays an opera singer (why not?) who falls in with a band of roguish but likeable gypsies. Mary manages to convince her Bohemian cohorts to rescue the King from the machinations of his ambitious prime minister. As “cast insurance” to make certain that Glamorous Night would get American bookings, Hollywood character actors Otto Kruger and Victor Jory are given leading roles. The US distributors also sliced the film down from 81 to 65 minutes, through the simple expedient of removing several songs.
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The Big Boss (1941) Charles Barton, Otto Kruger, Gloria Dickson, John Litel
The Big Boss is Jim Maloney (Otto Kruger), who pulls all the political strings in an unnamed major metropolis. Maloney’s chief antagonist is scrupulously honest “reform” governor Bob Dugan (John Litel). The fact that Maloney and Dugan are actually brothers, orphaned in childhood and raised separately, adds both texture and poignancy to their current adversarial relationship. Intending to reveal his fraternal ties to Dugan at a crucial moment in the latter’s anti-corruption campaign, Maloney is ultimately defeated by the forces of Righteousness. Outside of the always dependable Otto Kruger and John Litel, the film’s best performance is delivered by the underrated Gloria Dickson as a fairly realistic newspaperwoman.
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