
John Wengraf
Oyuncu · 1897 – 1974 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary, now Austria
Emigrating to England in 1933 as the Nazis began their rise to power, Wengraf appeared unbilled in a couple of films there, as well as in some of the first BBC live-television shows ever presented but his career began to languish. In late 1941, however, he had the good fortune of appearing on Broadway with Helen Hayes in "Candle in the Wind" and decided to stay. The following year he headed west and settled permanently in the Los Angeles area. A dark, cold-eyed, thin-lipped player with a precise, meticulous air about him, he found himself invariably playing the very characters he detested. Some of his more nefarious nasties surfaced in such films as the Humphrey Bogart classic Sahara (1943/I), as well as The Boy from Stalingrad (1943), U-Boat Prisoner (1944) and Till We Meet Again (1944). In postwar years, he was often spotted portraying ethnic professionals (scientists, doctors, professors, foreign royalty). Some of the more quality pictures he enhanced were Tomorrow Is Forever (1946); Count Von Papen in 5 Fingers (1952); and Ronchin in the Ethel Merman musical Call Me Madam (1953). Although Wengraf never made it to the very top of the Hollywood character ranks, he remained a throughly strong and reliable player. In the 1950s and 1960s he transferred his talents to TV, appearing on a number of dramatic showcases and on such popular programs as "The Untouchables" (1959), "Hawaiian Eye" (1959), "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1964) and "The Time Tunnel" (1966). His last few films included minor roles in the war-themed Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Hitler (1962) and Ship of Fools (1965). He retired in 1966, and died in Santa Barbara, California, at age 77, on May 4, 1974.
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Film8.0DramTarihSoğuk savaş sürmektedir ve birçok insan II. Dünya Savaşı'nda yaşanan acı olayları unutmak istemektedir. Suçları hakkında hiçbir şüphe olmamasına rağmen politik baskılar nedeniyle tereddüt geçiren yargıç Haywood, II. Dünya Savaşı'nda Nazi eylemlerini yasal hale getiren dört yargıç hakkında en doğru kararı vermek zorundadır.
Film6.6DramRomantik1930'larda Meksika'dan Avrupa'ya seyahat eden bir gemideki yolcular, o dönemde toplumun genelini temsil eder. Tüm mürettebat Alman'dır ve buna yolculardan biri olan La Condesa'ya aşık olan Dr. Schumann da dahildir. Genç bir Amerikalı kadın olan Jenny, sevdiği adam David ile seyahat etmektedir. Jenny, diğer yolculardan bazılarının kim olduğu konusunda büyülenmiş ve kafası karışmıştır.
Ship of Fools
1965 · 102 votes
Film5.8MaceraDramCaptain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
Wake of the Red Witch
1948 · 52 votes
Film6.9DramRomantikAn adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
The Razor's Edge
1946 · 100 votes
Film6.0SavaşTarih1810 yılındaki Napolyon Savaşları sırasında İspanya'da İspanyol askerleri ve köylüleri zor koşullarda savaşır. General Jovet liderliğindeki Fransızlar, 13 metre uzunluğunda ve 7 ton ağırlığındaki tek İspanyol topunu ele geçirmek istiyor. İngilizlerin de topa ihtiyacı var ama Fransızlara karşı İspanyolların yanındalar. İngilizler, İspanyolların topunu almak ve İspanyol askerlerinin yardımıyla dev topu Santander'e çekmek için bir deniz kaptanını - adı Anthony Trumbell - İspanyol kampına, General Larena'ya gönderir. İspanyolların lideri ise asabi, huysuz bir ayakkabıcı olan Miguel'dir ve iki yüz adamını Avila'ya yönlendirip tek topu İspanya'nın yarısına sürüklemek ister. Miguel ve Anthony tamamen farklı iki adam, asker ve liderdir. Her ikisi de farklı şeyler istiyor, farklı liderlik istiyorlar, tek bir konuda hemfikirler; aynı güzel kadına aşıklar.
Film6.0MaceraDramA privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
Hell and High Water
1954 · 67 votes
Film6.8DramSavaşIn 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.
The Seventh Cross
1944 · 43 votes
Film6.3SavaşAksiyonIn North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
The Desert Rats
1953 · 103 votes
Film7.2DramGerilimCzechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
Night Train to Munich
1940 · 97 votes
Film7.5GerilimDramOscar'lı yönetmen Mankiewicz'in, II. Dünya Savaşı'nda Nazi Almanya'sı için çalışan en önemli casuslardan İlyas Bazna'nın gerçek öyküsünü anlattığı Beş Parmak, İstanbul'da gerçekleştirilen ilk büyük uluslararası yapım. Elyesa Bazna, İngiltere'nin Türkiye büyükelçisinin uşağı olarak çalışırken gizli evrakları Alman elçisi Franz von Papen'e sızdırıyordu. Aslında tek amacı aslında rahat ve konforlu bir yaşam sürmekti. İki dalda Oscar'a aday gösterilen filmde sadece "kimselerin olmadığı" İstanbul sokaklarını değil, o günlerin Ankara'sını da izliyoruz.
Film6.7GizemGerilimA group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
The Prize
1963 · 119 votes
Film4.6WesternDramAfter the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.
Valerie
1957 · 17 votes
Film6.4DramRomantikIn present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family.
Never Say Goodbye
1956 · 20 votes
Film6.8SuçGerilimAmerika Birleşik Devletleri hazine ajanları O'Brien ve Genaro, bir gün yüzük keşfederler. Yüzük inanılmaz güçlere sahiptir....
T-Men
1947 · 98 votes
Film7.2SavaşLibya taraflarında, Sahra çölünde, savaş tecrübesi kazanmaları için "güneş batmayan ülkenin" emrine amade ettiği, Çavuş Joe Gunn'ın yetkisinde bulunan tankın, yeni bir emir alarak güney tarafına doğru geri çekilmesiyle başlıyor film. Filmin ikinci adımı, konunun kalan kısmını oluşturuyor. Akroma harabelerinde damla damla akan bir kuyuda ihtiyaçlarını gidermeye çalışıyor tank mürettebatı. O esnada 500 kişiden oluşan bir Alman birliği aynı dertten muzdarip olarak kuyuya yönelir. Çavuş Joe ve ekibi ülkeleri adına, tarihte de benzer başarılı örnekleri mevcut olduğu üzere savunma yaparak Almanları meşgul etmeyi planlarlar.
Film6.5KomediDramAnything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Week-End at the Waldorf
1945 · 14 votes
Film5.6KorkuAfter a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.
The Return of Dracula
1958 · 72 votes
Film6.2KomediArthur Turner's bored housewife Mildred seeks psychiatric help from Dr. Alan Coles who also has his own emotional problems to solve.
Oh, Men! Oh, Women!
1957 · 3 votes
Film4.5RomantikKomediOil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
The French Line
1954 · 12 votes
Film5.7DramGerilimA pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.
Portrait in Black
1960 · 26 votes
Film7.0SavaşDramAn 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.
Till We Meet Again
1944 · 3 votes
Film5.6DramSavaşA tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Convoy
1940 · 15 votes
Film7.2WesternA discharged army Captain returns home to New Orleans to take revenge on the men who murdered his father.
The Gambler from Natchez
1954 · 6 votes
Film7.6KomediSavaşThree sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
Sailors Three
1940 · 5 votes
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Dizi5.3DramMatinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
Matinee Theater
1955 · 7 votes
Dizi6.8DramKomediFour Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
Four Star Playhouse
1952 · 11 votes
Dizi5.7GizemDramAlcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
One Step Beyond
1959 · 15 votes
Dizi6.4WesternDramBat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
Bat Masterson
1958 · 16 votes
Dizi7.2SuçDramStu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · 26 votes
Dizi5.6SuçDramPrivate Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.
Hawaiian Eye
1959 · 10 votes
Dizi6.7Aksiyon ve MaceraDramThe Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The series, starring motion picture star Robert Taylor, was produced by Four Star Television. Captain Matt Holbrook (Robert Taylor) is head of the detective division of a large metropolitan police force—a man whose devotion to duty, professional brilliance, and quick judgment are reflected in his 20-year career on the force. His aides, Lt. Johnny Russo (Tige Andrews), Lt. Otto Lindstrom (Russ Thorson), and Sgt. Chris Ballard (Mark Goddard) form a team that is both proficient and warmly human. The stories stress the interrelationships between the men as well as the solutions to crimes and the apprehension of criminals, adding a dimension of human drama to the excitement, action, and suspense inherent in each story of the detectives' difficult, sometimes thankless, and frequently dangerous assignments.
The Detectives
1959 · 10 votes
Dizi7.7Aksiyon ve MaceraBilim Kurgu ve FantastikThe Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns are viewable on cable and by internet streaming. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up.
The Time Tunnel
1966 · 201 votes
Dizi5.8DramAn anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
The Millionaire
1955 · 4 votes
Dizi6.2KomediDanny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results.
The Danny Thomas Show
1953 · 20 votes
Dizi6.5DramTelephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.
Telephone Time
1956 · 4 votes
- Dizi6.7DramKomedi
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · 7 votes
Dizi7.2DramThe Third Man
1959 · 11 votes
Dizi6.0DramYou Are There is an American historical educational television and radio series broadcast over the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks.
You Are There
1953 · 4 votes
Dizi4.6DramCavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
Cavalcade of America
1952 · 5 votes
Dizi8.0Aksiyon ve MaceraSuçThe Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.
The Rogues
1964 · 7 votes
Dizi6.0Dram"Bourbon Street Beat" is a private detective series produced by Warner Brothers Television which aired on the ABC network from October 5, 1959, to July 4, 1960. It featured Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer, the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which they worked. The show is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and revolves around the lives of Rex Randolph (Long) and Cal Calhoun (Duggan), who run a detective agency called Randolph and Calhoun — Special Services. The agency is based in the Absinthe House, a French Quarter nightclub on Bourbon Street.
Bourbon Street Beat
1959 · 2 votes
Dizi5.3Aksiyon ve MaceraA U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s.
Dangerous Assignment
1952 · 3 votes
Dizi8.0Savaş ve PolitikaDramBehind Closed Doors is an American drama series set during the Cold War hosted by and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon in the role of Commander Matson. The series, which aired on NBC from October 2, 1958, to April 9, 1959, focuses, among other themes, on how the former Soviet Union stole American missile secrets and proposes steps to prevent further espionage. Behind Closed Doors is based on the files and experiences of Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who offers comments at the end of each segment. Behind Closed Doors, a Screen Gems production, replaced Jackie Cooper's sitcom The People's Choice, followed the NBC quiz show, Twenty-One, and preceded the The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. Its competition was The Pat Boone Chevy Show on ABC and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater western anthology series on CBS.
Behind Closed Doors
1958 · 1 votes
Dizi7.5Walter Winchell Dosyası, ilk olarak 1957'den 1958'e kadar yayınlanan ve New York Polis Departmanından New York Daily Mirror'da kapsanan vakaları dramatize eden bir televizyon suç drama dizisinin adıdır. Dizide köşe yazarı ve spiker Walter Winchell, John Larch, George Cisar, Robert Anderson, Robert Brubaker, Dolores Donlon ve Gene Barry yer aldı, NBC'nin Bat Masterson'ının başına geçmesinden bir yıl önce. Otuz dokuz bölüm üretildi; İlk yirmi altısı 1957-1958 sezonunda ABC'de yayınlandı ve son on üçü 1959'da sendikasyonda görüldü. Konuk yıldızlar arasında 1957'de "Thou Shalt Not Kill" bölümünde 7 yaşındaki Allie Marisch'i oynayan çocuk oyuncu Dennis Holmes vardı.
The Walter Winchell File
1957 · 2 votes
Dizi8.0DramA short-lived anthology series narrated by Westbrook Van Voorhis. Each episode tells its own thriller story and featured its own unique cast.
Panic!
1957 · 1 votes
Dizi7.3Savaş ve PolitikaDramJericho is an American espionage series set during World War II. The series stars John Leyton, Don Francks and Marino Masé as secret agents, and aired on CBS from September 1966, to January 1967.
Jericho
1966 · 3 votes
Dizi6.8KomediDramGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
General Electric Theater
1953 · 6 votes