Direction: Douglas Sirk

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast John Gavin · Liselotte Pulver · Jock Mahoney · Keenan Wynn

Plot In 1944, a company of German soldiers on the Russian front are numbed by the horrors and hardships of war when Private Ernst Graeber's long awaited furlough comes through. Back...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Lana Turner · John Gavin · Susan Kohner · Sandra Dee

Plot Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though Annie's little...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Fred MacMurray · Joan Bennett · William Reynolds

Plot Fred MacMurray is a toy company executive whose wife (Joan Bennett) and kids (Gigi Perreau, William Reynolds and Judy Nugent) take him for granted. Barbara Stanwyck is Fred's former girl...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Rock Hudson · Lauren Bacall · Robert Stack · Dorothy Malone

Plot On 24 October 1955, the hard-work geologist of the Hadley Oil Company Mitch Wayne meets the executive secretary Lucy Moore in the office of her boss Bill Ryan in New...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Rock Hudson · Robert Stack · Dorothy Malone · Jack Carson

Plot Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Jane Wyman · Rock Hudson · Agnes Moorehead · Conrad Nagel

Plot Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) is a well-to-do widow gradually re-entering a social life amongst her mostly dull country club peers. Her only apparent enjoyment in life comes from weekend visits...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Jane Wyman · Rock Hudson · Barbara Rush · Agnes Moorehead

Plot When churlish, spoiled rich man Bob Merrick foolishly wrecks his speed boat, the rescue team resuscitates him with equipment that's therefore unavailable to aid a local hero, Dr. Wayne Phillips,...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Richard Carlson · Lyle Bettger · Marcia Henderson

Plot In 1900, Naomi Murdoch deserted her small-town family to go on the stage. Some ten years later, daughter Lily invites Naomi back to see her in the Riverdale high school...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast George Sanders · Signe Hasso · Carole Landis · Akim Tamiroff

Plot The autobiography of elegant criminal, François Eugène Vidocq, from his birth in a French jail in 1775 to his appointment as chief of police of Paris where he intends to...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Hansi Knoteck · Ellen Frank · Kurt Fischer-Fehling · Friedrich Kayßler

Plot Based on a Selma Lagerlöf 's short story ,"Das Mädchen..." belongs to Sierck's long series of melodramas ,a genre he was one of the indisputable masters. Probably influenced by Frank...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Zarah Leander · Willy Birgel · Edwin Juergenssen · Carola Höhn

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Willy Birgel · Lil Dagover · Mária Tasnádi Fekete · Maria Koppenhöfer

Plot A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide,...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Claudette Colbert · Robert Cummings · Don Ameche · Rita Johnson

Plot Wealthy Sutton Place housewife Alison Courtland wakes up screaming on a train that left New York's Grand Central Station for Boston. The doctor who treats her on the train says...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast George Sanders · Linda Darnell · Edward Everett Horton · Anna Lee

Plot In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Claudette Colbert · Ann Blyth · Robert Douglas · Anne Crawford

Plot Convicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Heinrich George · Maria Krahn · Horst Teetzmann · Albrecht Schönhals

Plot Henrik Ibsen's 1877 play Samfundets Stotter (Pillars of Society) was the source for this German drama. The plot centers upon a flagrant case of municipal corruption, carried out by the...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Piper Laurie · Rock Hudson · Charles Coburn · Gigi Perreau

Plot Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate to the family of his first love, who turned down his...

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer · Douglas Sirk

Cast Hedy Lamarr · George Sanders · Louis Hayward · Gene Lockhart

Plot Beautiful Jenny Hager finds she can always get what she wants from the men in the 1820's port of Bangor, Maine. Freed by his death from her drunkard father she...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast June Allyson · Rossano Brazzi · Marianne Koch · Françoise Rosay

Plot The story of a young woman, Helen Banning (June Allyson), who travels to Munich in search of life experience and romance. While working for America House, she meets a famous...

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast George Sanders · Lucille Ball · Charles Coburn · Boris Karloff

Plot Before being forever associated with melodrama, acclaimed director Douglas Sirk dabbled in other genres. LURED, a good example of this, is a witty and stylish thriller about a serial killer...