Cast: Olaf Hytten

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


The Salvation Hunters

1925 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast George K. Arthur · Georgia Hale · Bruce Guerin · Otto Matieson

Synopsis Often described as "the first American independent film", von Sternberg’s The Salvation Hunters is an austere and obscurely naturalist drama about "humans who crawl near the floor." It's hard now to appreciate the bomb-shell that Sternberg's first feature must have...

7.1

159 votes

7.1

159 votes

A Christmas Carol

1938 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Reginald Owen · Gene Lockhart · Kathleen Lockhart · Terry Kilburn

Synopsis On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to...

6.8

86 votes

6.8

86 votes

My Name Is Julia Ross

1945 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis

Cast Nina Foch · Dame May Whitty · George Macready · Roland Varno

Synopsis Some sources cite this as an early example of British film noir, which is rather interesting since it is an American production by Wallace MacDonald's B-unit at Columbia and filmed on that lot. Julia Ross (Nina Foch) secures employment, through...

6.6

363 votes

6.6

363 votes

The Brighton Strangler

1945 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Max Nosseck

Cast John Loder · June Duprez · Michael St. Angel · Miles Mander

Synopsis During WW II, one of the hits of the London stage is a play about a murderer who strangles his victims. The actor who plays the strangler identifies so strongly with his part that when he receives a blow to...

6.2

40 votes

6.2

40 votes

Berkeley Square

1933 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Leslie Howard · Heather Angel · Valerie Taylor · Irene Browne

Synopsis A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.

6.2

23 votes

6.2

23 votes

Living on Velvet

1935 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

6.0

21 votes

6.0

21 votes

The White Shadow

1924 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Graham Cutts

Cast Betty Compson · Clive Brook · Henry Victor · A.B. Imeson

Synopsis The plot concerns twin sisters, one good, the other evil. The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked on it as assistant director...

6.0

21 votes

6.0

21 votes

The Last Outpost

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton · Louis J. Gasnier

Cast Cary Grant · Claude Rains · Gertrude Michael · Kathleen Burke

Synopsis In World War I, British-officer Michael Andrews is captured by a band of Kurdish raiders on the Eastern Front, and is rescued by a man calling himself John Stevenson, although he refuses to tell his name to Andrews. The two...

5.7

90 votes

5.7

90 votes

The Ghost of Frankenstein

1942 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Erle C. Kenton

Cast Cedric Hardwicke · Lon Chaney Jr. · Ralph Bellamy · Lionel Atwill

Synopsis The villagers finally decide to free themselves of the Frankenstein menace and blow up Castle Frankenstein, but this succeeds in reviving the monster. Ygor takes the monster to the village of Vasaria to find Frankenstein’s second son Ludwig who works...

5.5

292 votes

5.5

292 votes

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Ronald Colman · Loretta Young · C. Aubrey Smith · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis Algy, Bulldog Drummond's right-hand-man, is getting married. Bulldog attends; on the way home, in the fog, he enters the (apparently deserted) mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a phone. He finds none, but he does find a body -...

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Trapped by the Mormons

1922 · Movie · 71 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harry B. Parkinson

Cast Evelyn Brent · Louis Willoughby · Ward McAllister · Olaf Hytten

Synopsis Anti-Mormon film involves the taking of young virginal English women to Utah to become wives (Source: wikipedia)

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Alias Mr. Twilight

1946 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Michael Duane · Trudy Marshall · Lloyd Corrigan · Rosalind Ivan

Synopsis Geoffrey Holden is an elderly conman who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy...

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Television Spy

1939 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast William Henry · Judith Barrett · William Collier Sr. · Richard Denning

Synopsis A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.

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Secrets of an Actress

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Kay Francis · George Brent · Ian Hunter · Gloria Dickson

Synopsis Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.

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Black Beauty

1946 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Max Nosseck

Cast Mona Freeman · Richard Denning · Evelyn Ankers · Charles Evans

Synopsis Widower Squire Weldon (Charles Evans). trying to raise his motherless daughter, Anne (Mona Freeman) presents her with a colt, Black Beauty (Highland Dale), in the hope that by disciplining the horse, she may learn to discipline herself. Passing through Birtwick...

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Kitty

1929 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

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California Straight Ahead!

1937 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast John Wayne · Louise Latimer · Robert McWade · Theodore von Eltz

Synopsis Former school bus driver Biff Smith manages a trucking company which has its fleet pitted against a freight train in a race to deliver aviation parts to the Pacific coast.

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Blond Cheat

1938 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Santley

Cast Joan Fontaine · Derrick De Marney · Cecil Kellaway · Cecil Cunningham

Synopsis Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, is the chief assistant to Rufus Trent, wealthy London loan broker. He has allowed himself to become engaged to the Rufus' daughter, Roberta, the match engineered primarily by socially-ambitious Mrs. Trent. As Michael is closing the...

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