Cast: Egon Brecher

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Egon Brecher. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Man Hunt

1941 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Joan Bennett · George Sanders · Roddy McDowall

Plot British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gunsight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Manpower

1941 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Marlene Dietrich · George Raft · Alan Hale

Plot Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident Hank is injured and is promoted to foreman of the gang. One...

6.9

319 votes

6.9

319 votes

The Black Cat

1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · David Manners · Julie Bishop

Plot The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie film that was surprisingly morbid and perverse for its time. Peter...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

You and Me

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · George Raft · Robert Cummings · Barton MacLane

Plot An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in...

6.5

241 votes

6.5

241 votes

So Dark the Night

1946 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Steven Geray · Micheline Cheirel · Eugene Borden · Ann Codee

Plot So Dark the Night is the story of a detective, Henri Cassin from Paris, who falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter Nanette while on a long overdue vacation. She...

6.0

95 votes

6.0

95 votes

The Man I Married

1940 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Joan Bennett · Francis Lederer · Lloyd Nolan · Anna Sten

Plot Anti-Nazi tract laced with 1938 newsreel footage finds American girl (Bennett) married to a German (Lederer) gradually learning he is a Nazi, trying to get their son to America.

5.9

24 votes

5.9

24 votes

O.S.S.

1946 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Irving Pichel

Cast Alan Ladd · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Patric Knowles · John Hoyt

Plot John Martin is part of an American spy team dropped into France during World War II to destroy the French railway system. After successfully blowing up a tunnel he runs...

5.7

27 votes

5.7

27 votes

To the Last Man

1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Randolph Scott · Esther Ralston · Jack La Rue · Buster Crabbe

Plot In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when...

5.4

37 votes

5.4

37 votes

Espionage Agent

1939 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Joel McCrea · Brenda Marshall · Jeffrey Lynn · George Bancroft

Plot When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to...

5.3

22 votes

5.3

22 votes

Alibi for Murder

1936 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction D. Ross Lederman

Cast William Gargan · Marguerite Churchill · Gene Morgan · Romaine Callender

Plot Perry Travis (William Gargan) is a wise-cracking private detective-cum-amateur radio broadcaster who sets the plot in motion when he witnesses the murder of a scientist, Sir Conrad Stava (Egon Brecher)....

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Stolen Holiday

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Kay Francis · Claude Rains · Ian Hunter · Alison Skipworth

Plot Nicole Picot is working as a model in a Paris dress salon when she is picked by Stefan Orloff to help him convince a wealthy investor that he is well...

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I Met Him in Paris

1937 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Claudette Colbert · Melvyn Douglas · Robert Young · Lee Bowman

Plot Kay Denham is off for a 'fling' in Paris, leaving her staid suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket...

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Buyer Beware (S)

1940 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

Direction Joseph M. Newman

Cast Charles Arnt · Hugh Beaumont · Margaret Bert · Egon Brecher

Plot This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.

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The Spy Ring

1938 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast William Hall · Jane Wyman · Esther Ralston · Robert Warwick

Plot This one is about a gang of independent spies after a cigar-shaped device that guarantees accuracy on artillery and large weapons. The spies are headed by Paul Douglas, Jean Bruce...

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I Was an Adventuress

1940 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Vera Zorina · Richard Greene · Erich von Stroheim · Peter Lorre

Plot Andre Desormeaux, master con artist and jewel thief, has been very successful with his partners, light-fingered Polo and beautiful lure "Countess" Tanya Vronsky. But Tanya falls in love with one...

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They Dare Not Love

1941 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

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Till We Meet Again

1936 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Herbert Marshall · Gertrude Michael · Lionel Atwill · Rod La Rocque

Plot In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an immediate marriage. But the War comes...

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Thin Ice

1937 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Sonja Henie · Tyrone Power · Arthur Treacher · Raymond Walburn

Plot Lili is a skating instructor at a grand hotel in the Alps. An international conference is booked at the hotel. The conference is led by Prince Rudolph, whose plan is...

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U-Boat Prisoner

1944 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Lew Landers · Budd Boetticher

Cast Bruce Bennett · Erik Rolf · John Abbott · John Wengraf

Plot Bennett plays merchant seaman Archie Gibbs, who manages to survive when his ship is torpedoed by a German submarine. Disguising himself in the uniform of a dead Nazi spy, Gibbs...

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As the Earth Turns

1934 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Jean Muir · Donald Woods · Russell Hardie · Emily Lowry

Plot Drama following the lives of an immigrant farm family in Maine.

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