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Till We Meet Again (1944)
Character: Major Krupp
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in him and is willing to help him escape to England, but the pilot must continue his mission undercover by posing as the husband of a different woman.
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I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)
Character: Gerhardt Eisler
A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization.
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)
Character: Plane Saboteur
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
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To the Victor (1948)
Character: Pablo
An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
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Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
Character: Maj. Von Buelow (uncredited)
During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.
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King of Alcatraz (1938)
Character: Murok
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
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Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: Mr. Nikolai Bukharin (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
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5 Fingers (1952)
Character: N/A
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
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Angel on the Amazon (1948)
Character: Dr. Jungmeyer
An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth.
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Song of Love (1947)
Character: Reinecke
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
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The Seventh Cross (1944)
Character: Fuellgrabe
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler attempts an escape to freedom in Holland.
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The Falcon in Hollywood (1944)
Character: Alec Hoffman
Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor. There's no shortage of suspects: the costume designer to whom he was married, a tyrannical director, a beautiful young French starlet, a Shakespeare-quoting producer, even a New York gangster. Helping The Falcon solve the crime is a cute, wise-cracking cab driver and a pair of bumbling cops.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Character: Peter van Hoorn
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
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On Your Toes (1939)
Character: First Assassin
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
Character: Ike Weber
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
Character: Headwaiter
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
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Cry of the City (1948)
Character: Dr. Veroff
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
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The Red Danube (1949)
Character: Professor Serge Bruloff
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
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Night Wind (1948)
Character: Dr. Ulding
A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.
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The Stranger (1946)
Character: Konrad Meinike
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Character: Karkov
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.
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Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)
Character: Yanos Van Lankovitz
In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.
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Vertigo (1958)
Character: Pop Leibel
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
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Passage to Marseille (1944)
Character: N/A
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
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Dangerous Millions (1946)
Character: Professor Jan Schuyler
Eight strangers meet in Shanghai to stake claims to the fortune of a late shipping magnate, then must evade a murderer in their midst.
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Christmas Eve (1947)
Character: Gustav Reichman
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
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The Price of Fear (1956)
Character: Bolasny
A co-owner of a race track goes on the run after witnessing something he shouldn't have at the track.
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The Unknown Man (1951)
Character: Peter Hulderman
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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Escape in the Fog (1945)
Character: Schiller
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
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