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Kleine Mutti (1935)
Character: Servant
A girl from a boarding school finds a baby and has to keep it because she seems to be the real mother to everyone.
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Hochzeitsreise zu 50% (1937)
Character: Paul Kerekes
A marriage ban for employees! This rumor causes turmoil among the staff at the Arcadia toy factory in Budapest. Misunderstandings, suspicions, wicked jokes ensue – and a happy ending. The exterior shots were filmed in and around Naples, with the Italian Navy making a curious contribution by providing a warship and a submarine for the shoot.
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Die Achtzehnjährigen (1927)
Character: Gaston Ravel
The Eighteen Year Old (German: Die Achtzehnjährigen) is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Andrée Lafayette, Ernő Verebes, and Frida Richard.
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Das Land ohne Frauen (1929)
Character: O’Donegan
A group of 413 women answer an ad looking for British women to sail to and marry miners in Australia. One does not survive the voyage, and conflict arises over who will have to remain unmarried.
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Human Law (1927)
Character: N/A
A jealous husband leaves jail to find his wife loves his lawyer.
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Twist Olivér (1919)
Character: First thief
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
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Delikatessen (1930)
Character: Bela
Friends Franz and Bela work in a deli belonging to Mr. Wallis. Franz is the manager and Bela a salesclerk. Both get to know the lovely Lilo. But while Bela is rebuffed, the charming womanizer Franz is more successful. After a boisterous celebration in the deli, Mr. Wallis tells Franz to get lost and hires Lilo as a new salesperson. Franz and Bela take a job at Mr. Markow's deli across the street and a serious competition begins between the two delis for survival.
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The Goldbergs (1950)
Character: N/A
Feature film using characters from the popular radio show and the pioneering 1949 TV series, about a Bronx family coping with everyday problems.
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Zapfenstreich am Rhein (1930)
Character: Max
Musical comedy set in the scenic Rhine country, in which dashing officers and enlisted men pursue various kinds of women.
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Ez a villa eladó (1935)
Character: Hódy György
The villa in the story of László Vadnai is for sale. The owner goes away and leaves the house to his butler, who also entrusts its safekeeping to an old friend. The friend immediately moves in with his niece, and two swindlers appear. But who is the seller and who is the buyer, and why the villa has to be sold at all, is a question that is only answered satisfactorily at the end of the film, after a lot of wall-crawling humour.
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Der Tanzhusar (1931)
Character: Józsi Ballok
In this comedy, a civilian singer of opera is obliged to fulfill his duty and perform six weeks of military service.
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Helyet az öregeknek (1934)
Character: N/A
Mr. Polgár is a provincial paper dealer. His sons, Viktor and Feri, are managers in a big factory in the capital, spending their money lavishly, living their lives in a careless, irresponsible way. Viktor is to marry a baroness and feels rather too uneasy about his father's small business. He persuades his old man into selling the business he had so long cherished and to move to their place in Pest.
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Egy éj Velencében (1934)
Character: N/A
A Hungarian-language film loosely based on the 1883 operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) by Johann Strauss II. The film was shot simultaneously while making the German film A Night in Venice (1934). The Hungarian version was co-directed by Robert Wiene and Géza von Cziffra and used a separate cast of Hungarian actors. From Wikipedia.
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Der fesche Husar (1928)
Character: Bubenyik
The daughter of an American millionaire falls in love with a Hungarian hussar officer during a visit to the Austrian Empire.
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Viereinhalb Musketiere (1935)
Character: Fritz Koerner, Geiger
A Hungarian-Austrian comedy and one of the last emigrant films made in Austria before the industry submitted to pressure from Nazi Germany and ceased to employ Jewish filmmakers.
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Zwei in einem Auto (1932)
Character: Béla Lakatosch
A young saleslady travels by car to the Riviera with a modest seeming young man who, it turns out, is really a wealthy nobleman.
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Das Lied ist aus (1930)
Character: Jerome Tönli
Operetta diva Tilla Morland is celebrating her latest stage success with her friends at the Carlton Bar. At everyone’s request, she begins to sing the show’s main hit. While she is singing, a young man ostentatiously leaves the bar. Tilla cannot forget this incident, which she finds outrageous, and to her surprise, she recognizes the very same patron in her newly hired secretary, Ulrich Weidenau.
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Die Faschingsfee (1931)
Character: Alfred v. Mützelburg
Film version of the operetta by Emmerich Kalman. Victor has won 10 000 Mark with his ceiling painting. In the local pub, he celebrates his triumph. Countess Alexandra happens to drop into the pub too, and is thought to be a model by the sponsor of the prize, Count Meredith. Victor soon has to save her from an embarassing misunderstanding. The two men insult each other and Victor loses his prize.
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Ein Tango für Dich (1930)
Character: Alfonso di Bei Juanos, Tangokapellmeister
Jimmy Bolt, a singer and dancer (and occasionally as a waiter) works at a varieté. The man may be talented, but he’s not exactly a big success, and things get complicated when a young orphan girl falls in love with the voice of another singer but then mistakes Bolt for him…
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Kameradschaftsehe (1929)
Character: N/A
The problem of companionship marriages , i.e. marriages determined by purely practical rather than emotional motives, is addressed with all its pros and cons using two relationships . The four protagonists are the student Erich Helmholz and his wife Elli, a seamstress, both a happily married but not in love couple, and the consultant's daughter Maria, who comes from the best "stable" and who, in her ignorance, first allows herself to be impregnated by any man (without really understanding how this could have happened) and then, under pressure from her horrified parents, enters into a companionship marriage with another man who has brilliant career prospects.
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Das Geheimnis der roten Katze (1931)
Character: André Dupont, Schauspieler
“The Red Cat” is a seedy dive. The rich American, Jefferson, who shows up there one day with his family and who recently became the proud owner of the famous Halifax emerald, particularly attracts the attention of the patrons of the “Cat”. One of them approaches the Americans disguised as a marquis, but he has not reckoned with Jefferson’s daughter, Jessie.
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Gräfin Mariza (1925)
Character: Zsupán
A Hungarian countess, wanting to dissuade unwanted suitors, announces her engagement to a fictional count Zsupán. Things go awry when a count Zsupán shows up, having heard of his engagement in the papers.
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Der Geisterzug (1927)
Character: Bobby (as Ernst Verebes)
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night.
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Harry Hill auf Welle 1000 (1926)
Character: N/A
Harry Hill auf Welle 1000 (Harry Hill on Wave 1000) is the title of a silent crime drama from the “Harry Hill” series, which Valy Arnheim produced in 1926 based on a script by Curt J. Braun in his own production company, “Valy Arnheim-Film Richard Spelling,” with himself in the lead role of the energetic detective. The title is formulated in reference to the station announcements common in the early days of radio, such as “Berlin auf Welle 400” (Berlin on Wave 400).
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Die Blume von Hawaii (1933)
Character: Buffy, Sekretär
An adaptation of the operetta The Flower of Hawaii by Paul Abraham. It is based on the life of the last Queen of Hawaii Liliuokalani.
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Es war einmal ein Walzer (1932)
Character: Gustl Linzer
Banker Rudi Moebius and his counselor arrive in Wien for an arranged marriage which should solve their financial problems. Only they don't know, but Lucie Weidling is broken too, and in love with Gustl, a musician without the courage to elope. Meanwhile Rudi meets Steffi and falls in love not even knowing her name. He and Lucie become good friends and decide to help each other.
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Viktoria und ihr Husar (1931)
Character: Janczi
Viktoria is a Hungarian countess who believes her Hussar captain husband was killed in World War I. She marries an American and resettles at the American consulate in Tokyo. Her first husband reappears, alive; and the American generously releases Viktoria from their union.
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Traum von Schönbrunn (1932)
Character: Lieutenant (as Ernst Verebes)
Princess Christine is impelled to be married, and expected to perform at the next Schönbrunn festival. But she takes a break and goes to Vienna instead, where she finds herself sharing a carriage with a young stranger.
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Wenn die Soldaten.. (1931)
Character: Franzl
When the Soldiers is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck and starring Otto Wallburg, Gretl Theimer and Ida Wüst.
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Die Jagd nach der Million (1930)
Character: N/A
Early German sound film based on the novel "Lord Spleen" by Ludwig von Wohl. Two stowaways attempt to unravel a plot onboard a steam train.
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Gräfin Mariza (1932)
Character: Koloman Zsupan
When Gräfin Mariza visits her country estate it is certainly an event. She gives a party to celebrate her engagement to a certain Koloman Zsupan, who unexpectedly shows up. Her authoritarian ways collide with Török, her manager. Based on Emerich Kálmán operetta.
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Der Erzieher meiner Tochter (1930)
Character: N/A
An American billionaire's daughter is obsessed with the idea of marrying a count. Her father would prefer her to marry the son of a competitor. So he comes up with the idea of hiring the dashing Heinz to spoil her aristocratic ways. Heinz introduces himself to her as Count Rüttow-Mallwitz and takes her to Europe. There, the two fall in love, but when she finds out about the scam, she indignantly takes the next ship and returns to America. It is only on the crossing that Heinz manages to convince her that he really loves her
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Das Blaue vom Himmel (1932)
Character: Der flotte Hugo
Out of unlikely circumstances an underground ticket vending girl and a mail pilot fall in love.
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To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Character: Stage Manager (uncredited)
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943)
Character: Count Godeck
Austrian actor Franz Huber, known for his impressions, is captured by the Gestapo and forced into plastic surgery to become Hitler's body double. Their plan is to poison Hitler and use Huber to take control of the Reich. Meanwhile, Huber's wife Anna sees her life coming undone as her husband has disappeared and her two sons are indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth.
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Gilda (1946)
Character: Blackjack Dealer (uncredited)
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
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Die verliebte Firma (1932)
Character: Heinrich Pulver - Regieassist.
The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the film, they decide to replace her with the village's young post office clerk Gretl, who returns to Berlin with them. There she has to struggle with the movie's all-male crew, who all try to woo and win her.
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My Friend Irma (1949)
Character: Mr. Ubang
Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane.
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Bitter Sweet (1940)
Character: Orderly (uncredited)
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
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Tangier (1946)
Character: Capt. Cartiaz
In Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local entrepreneur Pepe join forces to battle a Nazi diamond smuggler.
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Mädchen am Kreuz (1929)
Character: N/A
The young student Mary spends the beginning of her holiday with boat trips, visits to her wealthy groom, and gardening. In fast-paced, rhythmic cuts, Louise and Jakob Fleck draw their audience into a carefree, urban romantic comedy. With a single scene, however, it turns into a melodrama about sexual violence, shame and perpetrator-victim reversal.
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Scared Stiff (1953)
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
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Menschen am Sonntag (1930)
Character: Ernö
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
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The Hitler Gang (1944)
Character: Anton Drexler
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.
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Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Character: Fitch
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
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The Climax (1944)
Character: Brunn
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.
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Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
Character: Waiter
In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.
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Moonlight Masquerade (1942)
Character: Count Eric Nordvig
Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the birthday of Victoria, Forrester's daughter, approaches. A long time ago the two men made an arrangement that they would sign over one third of their company to their oldest children when they turned twenty-one, with the condition they married each other within thirty days....
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The Merry Widow (1952)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Remains to Be Seen (1953)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
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Outpost in Morocco (1949)
Character: Bamboule
Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.
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The Big Clock (1948)
Character: Waiter
George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.
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Above Suspicion (1943)
Character: Gestapo Officer (Uncredited)
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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The Conspirators (1944)
Character: Cascais Fisherman (uncredited)
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
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Balalaika (1939)
Character: Danchenoff's Secretary (uncredited)
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Too Young to Kiss (1951)
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
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Desperate Journey (1942)
Character: N/A
A British bomber crew, including Australian and American, is shot down over Germany during a bombing run. The five make their way across a perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the war secrets they have learned, battling Nazis along the way.
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Calcutta (1946)
Character: Frenchman (uncredited)
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
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The Juggler (1953)
Character: Official (uncredited)
A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
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O. Henry's Full House (1952)
Character: Waiter (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") (uncredited)
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
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Northwest Outpost (1947)
Character: Kyril Balinin's Aide
US cavalry officer James Laurence arrives at one of the Russian colonies to pave the way for the eventual American takeover of the territory. He faces resistance in the form of Prince Nikolai Balinin, who has no intention of weakening his despotic hold over the local peasants. The plot thickens when Laurence falls in love with Natalie Alanova, the wife of disgraced nobleman Count Igor Savin.
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Where Danger Lives (1950)
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
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Underground (1941)
Character: Maxel's Headwaiter
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
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His Kind of Woman (1951)
Character: Esteban - Morro Servant (uncredited)
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
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Appointment with Danger (1950)
Character: Window Dresser
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
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Hotel Imperial (1939)
Character: Ivan (uncredited)
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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Copper Canyon (1950)
Character: Professor
A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles.
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Ende schlecht, alles gut (1934)
Character: Viktors Bruder Ferry
The sons of small town store owner Anton Polgar have abandoned him for the big city, until financial problems there lead him to rescue them and bring them back.
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New Wine (1941)
Character: Karl (uncredited)
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
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Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Character: Mr. Cox
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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Die große Sehnsucht (1930)
Character: Himself
A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film stars of the era.
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None Shall Escape (1944)
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed during his trial.
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