Francis Lederer Movies

A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film...

An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.

A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the...

Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian...

Susanne Braun is keen to meet her father who she has never seen, but who supports her financially. She visits the Berlin lawyer who oversees the...

This silent-screen classic, like many others produced near the end of the silent era, was both a theatrical extravaganza boasting an original...

This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who...

Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local...

This film essay explores the strange case of G.W. Pabst, the Austrian filmmaker who was considered a giant of early cinema before his reputation went...

A tour of Hollywood, featuring such star frequented spots as the Vendome, the Lakeside Golf Club, the West Side Tennis Club, the Santa Anita...

A stock broker embezzles a million bucks and plans to take off to Shanghai. A number of obstacles stands in his path, however.

German-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic"....

A mad scientist transforms a panther into a man-like creature that escapes and goes on a murderous rampage.

Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon...

Former concert pianist, victim of Nazi torture, pursues a confused, melancholic existence on the island of Guadalupe.

Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of...

A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.

Former jewel thief Michael Lanyard toys with a princess and a grand duke.

A jealous musician kills his wife and frames a cab driver.