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Gwili andre, gregory ratoff, frank morgan, john warburton, rochelle hudson, vivien oakland, christian rub, murray kinnell director. Start by selecting add to favorites on the info screen of any show, movie or team. Secrets of the french police1933 the cinema i love can be boiled down to a few images. Kim novak hypnotizing jimmy stewart with her cat in bell book and candle. Its up to the french police, aided by a deft criminal, to rescue the victim and thwart the scheme. The film was made as a b film by rko radio pictures, using some of the sets from rkos the most dangerous game. I was watching secrets of the french police on some uhf afternoon movie. Buy secrets of the french police movie poster style a 27 x 40 1932 at. Cyr, a superdetective with the surete who tracks down the murderer of a fellow cop, danton.
Ever in my heart 1933 barbara stanwyck is worried that her husband may be a german spy in this mystery set during world war i. Secrets of the french police a burglar is recruited to aid the police in finding his kidnapped girlfriend, a lovely but impoverished flower girl. Secrets of the french police 1932 turner classic movies. Secrets of the french police is a horror crime hybrid that muddles early and never really recovers. Edward sutherland and starring gwili andre, gregory ratoff, and frank. Edward sutherland and starring gwili andre, gregory ratoff, and frank morgan the film was made as a b film by rko radio pictures, using some of the sets from rkos the most dangerous game 1932. Secrets of the french police 1932 edward sutherlandtcm 2 stars extremely silly precode suspense drama costarring frank morgan, later the wizard of oz himself. Secrets of the french police 1932 original print info. Still secrets of the french police is not a bad b film from rko.
Wollstein a parisian flower girl is trotted out as the missing grand duchess anastasia in this fastmoving thriller based on a popular newspaper serial. A french police inspector attempts to solve a number of murders. Secrets of the french police,secrets of the french police. Secrets of the french police 1932 stream and watch. Secrets of the french police 1932 movie clip princess anastasia airing. Join me as i attempt to watch 2,500 movies on dvd and bluray, including films from all around the world and spanning as many genres as i can muster. Actor gregory ratoff hypnotizing gwili andre in the 1932 b movie secrets of the french police. Secrets of the french police 1932 movie clip princess. Edward sutherland long ago on a grey, chilly november afternoon, i was sick with the flu and home from school, drowsily looking at tv on the living room couch while running a fever. Secrets of the french police 1932 movie clip hell have you on the streets first scene for danish gwili andre, as flower girl eugenie, with pickpocket boyfriend leon john warburton, joined by her angered father christian rub, trouble looming, in. A series of murders and a kidnapping is all part of a bizarre plot by a mad russian emigree to pass off his hypnotized victim as princess anastasia in order to get the millions as heir to the late tsar nicholas of russia. One of the films the author mentioned was a 1932 rko production entitled secrets of the french police. Secrets of the french police 1932 secrets of the french. Secrets of the french police 1932 produced by david o.
Some yellow peril stereotypes to go with the russophobia. It runs less than an hour but includes some rather interesting details as its most wellknown actor frank morgan playing a detective tries to solve the case. My longago amc viewing was the only time i had seen secrets of the french police, until tcm showed it this weekend. Released 1932, secrets of the french police stars gwiliandre, frankmorgan, gregoryratoff, murraykinnell the movie has a runtime of about 59 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. Read the full synopsis of secrets of the french police, 1932, directed by edward sutherland, with gwili andre, gregory ratoff, frank morgan, at turner classic movies. Joining forces with a thief, french police set a trap to expose fraud.
Secrets of the french police 1932 classic horror film. Selznick to showcase gwili andre, a ravishingly beautiful model from denmark, whom he hoped would become another greta garbo. Secrets of the french police 1932 posted on june 10, 2017 at 8. Sometime in the early 1990s, i saw this movie on the amc tv channel back when amc actually showed classic movies. Edward sutherland with gwili andre, gregory ratoff, frank morgan, john warburton, year. Written by samuel ornitz and robert tasker from magazine stories by ashton wolfe. Cyr frank morgan playing the drunk, observing evil baron lonzoi lucien prival calling master crook general moloff gregory ratoff, in secrets of the french police, 1932. An enjoyable 70 minutes, though we know whodunnit early on in the film. Secrets of the french police 1932 classic horror film board. A burglar is recruited to aid the police in finding his kidnapped girlfriend, a lovely but impoverished flower girl. See what the critics had to say and watch the trailer.
Edward sutherland featuring frank morgan, gwili andre, gregory ratoff the french police investigate the murder of one of their own, and find it is tied up with the kidnapping of a flower girl and a. Included in the cast is eddie boland, who has a major comic supporting role as reporter eddie. Secrets of the french police is a film directed by a. That, needless to say, didnt happen andre was perhaps the least accomplished of the eras european imports but the film ended up belonging squarely to. A general gregory ratoff hypnotizes a french girl gwili andre into posing as a lost russian princess. Secrets of the french police 1932 the movie database. Secrets of the french police gwili andre frank morgan gregory ratoff 1932 a general gregory ratoff hypnotizes a french girl gwili andre into posing as a lost russian princess. Secrets of the french police 1932 this police procedural turns into a really kinky horror film. Gwili andre, gregory ratoff, frank morgan and john warburton.
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Concerns the kidnapping and brainwashing of a young woman made to think shes the romanoff princess anastasia. The film is based partly on samuel ornitzs own unpublished novel the last empress. A fastpaced detective film starring lionel barrymore and kay francis. The film begins with a copy of the magazine opened to an installment of wolfes secrets of the surete, the french detective police, insistent as. Meanwhile, a deranged russian emigre has been claiming that his ward is actually princess anastasia, last survivor of the tsars familybut she seems to behave strangely in the presence of flowers. Secrets of the french police 1932 classic film guide. Regardez secrets of the french police 1932 daniel bernard sur dailymotion. Nov 11, 2017 lois wilson stars in this now dated precode yellow peril mystery, from chesterfield pictures. Selznick this obscure crime story has horror flick elements which make it a rather strange little film. Frank morgan the wizard in the wizard of oz plays the paris police inspector. Secrets of the french police 1932 coins in movies brianrxm. The 1932 radio pictures film secrets of the french police is set in the modern paris of 1932. First scene for danish gwili andre, as flower girl eugenie, with pickpocket boyfriend leon john warburton, joined by her angered father christian rub, trouble looming. Edward sutherland and starring gwili andre, gregory ratoff, and frank morgan.
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