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Walter Reisch
Writer 1903 - 1983

Walter Reisch

Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

18 titles
Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Henry Levin 1959 2h 12m 7.2

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

Teenage Rebel

Teenage Rebel

Edmund Goulding 1956 1h 34m

Ginger Rogers get her teenage daughter (Betty Lou Keim) back from her ex-husband when she remarries and must win her love.

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

Richard Fleischer 1955 1h 49m 7.0

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is the true story of Evelyn Nesbit (Dame Joan Collins), a beautiful showgirl caught in a love triangle with elderly architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and eccentric young millionaire Harry K. Thaw (Farley Granger).

Titanic

Titanic

Jean Negulesco 1953 1h 38m 7.0

Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the unsinkable Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.

Niagara

Niagara

Henry Hathaway 1953 1h 32m 7.2

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man.

The Model and the Marriage Broker

The Model and the Marriage Broker

George Cukor 1951 1h 43m 7.0

A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.

The Mating Season

The Mating Season

Mitchell Leisen 1951 1h 41m 7.0

Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.

The Fan

The Fan

Otto Preminger 1949 1h 19m 8.0

Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society.

The Heavenly Body

The Heavenly Body

Alexander Hall 1944 1h 35m

The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.

Gaslight

Gaslight

George Cukor 1944 1h 54m 8.4

Director George Cukor draws magnificent performances from his stars in this powerfully guided study in obsession. GASLIGHT is a suspenseful, atmospheric mystery that perfectly captures the smoky, smoggy feel of Victorian London.

That Uncertain Feeling

That Uncertain Feeling

Ernst Lubitsch 1941 1h 24m

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

That Hamilton Woman

That Hamilton Woman

Alexander Korda 1941 2h 5m 7.0

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.

Ninotchka

Ninotchka

Ernst Lubitsch 1939 1h 50m 8.1

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

The Great Waltz

The Great Waltz

Julien Duvivier 1938 1h 44m

Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.

Casta diva

Casta diva

Carmine Gallone 1935 1h 27m

Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here played by American actor Phillips Holmes. Paying but scant attention the facts, the film concentrates on Bellini's colorful love life.

Maskerade

Maskerade

Willi Forst 1934 1h 30m

A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady affairs.

Leise flehen meine Lieder

Leise flehen meine Lieder

Willi Forst 1933 1h 28m

Franz Schubert works as school teacher, yet his mind and soul are in music. When he is engaged as a pianist for an aristocratic soirée he doesn't suspect how this will change his life forever and even determine his unfinished symphony.

Die elf Teufel

Die elf Teufel

Carl Boese, Zoltan Korda 1927 1h 38m

Die elf Teufel / The Eleven Devils was made in Berlin in the summer of 1927, in the last throes of the silent movie era. But Die elf Teufel strikes one today as a prophetic film. One of its early captions is "Football, the sport of the century ".

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