Curt Siodmak — Playwright (20)
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The Ball (1931) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Le Bal
director: Wilhelm Thiele actor: Germaine Dermoz / Danielle Darrieux …
other title: Le Bal
Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches. Although the aristocracy invites them, the 'Tout-Paris' laughs behind their back. When they invite their would be new friends for a ball in their desirable new mansion, their daughter, sick and tired of being abandoned by her once loving parents, throws the invitations into the Seine.
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Pacific Blackout (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pacific Blackout
director: Ralph Murphy actor: Robert Preston / Martha O'Driscoll …
other title: El ángel de medianoche
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
F.P.1 antwortet nicht
director: Karl Hartl actor: Hans Albers / Sybille Schmitz …
other title: F.P.1 antwortet nicht / I.F.1 ne répond plus …
F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.
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The Magnetic Monster (1953) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Eggplant.place
The Magnetic Monster
director: Curt Siodmak / Herbert L. Strock actor: Richard Carlson / King Donovan …
other title: El monstruo magnético / 磁力怪兽 …
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
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The Climax (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Climax
director: 乔治·瓦格纳 actor: 波利斯·卡洛夫 / 苏珊娜·福斯特 …
other title: 喉恋 / 歌场怪人 …
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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House of Frankenstein (1944) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
House of Frankenstein
director: 厄尔·C·肯顿 actor: 波利斯·卡洛夫 / 小朗·钱尼 …
other title: 科学怪人之家 / 弗兰肯斯坦的房子 …
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes
director: 泰伦斯·费希 / Frank Winterstein actor: 克里斯托弗·李 / 多利·沃特斯 …
other title: 福尔摩斯与致命项链 / Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes …
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson embark on a search for Cleopatra's ancient necklace, which has been stolen.
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Black Friday (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Black Friday
director: 阿瑟·卢宾 actor: 波利斯·卡洛夫 / 贝拉·卢戈西 …
other title: 黑色星期五 / Schwarzer Freitag …
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
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Invisible Agent (1942) [Movie]
Invisible Agent
director: 埃德温·L·马林 actor: 洛娜·马赛 / 乔恩·霍尔 …
other title: 隐形剂 / 인비저블 에이전트 …
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
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I Walked with a Zombie (1943) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
I Walked with a Zombie
7.2 (18 ratings) director: 雅克·特纳 actor: 詹姆斯·埃利森 / 弗朗西丝·迪伊 …
other title: 与僵尸同行 / 與殭屍同行 …
A young Canadian nurse (Betsy) comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager (Paul Holland). Jessica seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever. When she falls in love with Paul, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give Paul what she thinks he wants.