List of the best Konstantin Shayne movies: Escape in the Fog(1945), Five Graves to Cairo(1943), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(1947), Vertigo(1958), The Falcon in Hollywood(1944), None but the Lonely Heart(1944), The Price of Fear(1956), Her Highness and the Bellboy(1945), Passage to Marseille(1944), The Red Danube(1949), I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.(1951), Five Fingers(1952) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
65 Minutes
Schiller
Nina Foch William Wright Otto Kruger Konstantin Shayne Ivan Triesault Ernie S. Adams Mary Newton Ralph Dunn John Tyrrell Charles Jordan Noel Cravat
nurse government agent spy shop owner henchman stranger engaging tense san francisco hotel lobby repair shop bridge house espionage secret documents undercover operations world war ii post-traumatic stress disorder nightmares
During WW2, an army nurse on R&R in San Francisco has a premonition about witnessing a murder attempt against a G-man by Nazi agents.
War
USA
1943
96 Minutes
Maj. Von Buelow
Franchot Tone Anne Baxter Erich von Stroheim Akim Tamiroff Peter Van Eyck Fortunio Bonanova Konstantin Shayne Fred Nurney Miles Mander Leslie Denison Ian Keith
soldier innkeeper clerk field marshal erwin rommel tense thrilling engaging hotel desert cairo war espionage dangerous assignment world war ii adventure sacrifice pursuit 1940s
In the North African campaign a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better use.
Comedy
USA
1947
108 Minutes
Peter van Hoorn
Danny Kaye Virginia Mayo Boris Karloff Fay Bainter Ann Rutherford Thurston Hall Konstantin Shayne Florence Bates Gordon Jones Reginald Denny Henry Corden
man fiancée mother beautiful woman villain criminal endearing amusing united states city household dreams imagination courage heroism crime adventure quest pursuit 1940s
A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1958
128 Minutes
Pop Leibel
James Stewart Kim Novak Barbara Bel Geddes Tom Helmore Henry Jones Raymond Bailey Ellen Corby Konstantin Shayne Lee Patrick
detective wife friend dead person police officer suspenseful gripping church san francisco hotel country club obsession madness investigation accident deception rescue pursuit mystery love
A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
67 Minutes
Alec Hoffman
Tom Conway Barbara Hale Paula Corday Veda Ann Borg Sheldon Leonard Frank Jenks John Abbott Konstantin Shayne Emory Parnell
the falcon inspector stuntwoman actress producer director fascinating intricate gripping los angeles hollywood, calif. film set office murder investigation film industry vacation gambling schemes poison mystery
The Falcon investigates the murder of an actor on a Hollywood backlot.
Drama
USA
1944
113 Minutes
Ike Weber
Cary Grant Ethel Barrymore Barry Fitzgerald June Duprez Jane Wyatt George Coulouris Dan Duryea Konstantin Shayne Eva Lernard Boyne Morton Lowry Helene Thimig
mother son musician gangster wife brooding dark london shop house death business crime mother/son relationship fall discovery temptation forbidden love 1930s
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
Drama
USA
1956
79 Minutes
Bolasny
Merle Oberon Lex Barker Charles Drake Gia Scala Warren Stevens Philip Pine Mary Field Dan Riss Konstantin Shayne Stafford Repp Tim Sullivan
The co-owner of a dog track is framed for two crimes: the shotgun killing of his ex-partner and the hit-and-run death of an elderly man.
Romance
USA
1945
112 Minutes
Yanos Van Lankovitz
Hedy Lamarr Robert Walker June Allyson Carl Esmond Agnes Moorehead Rags Ragland Ludwig Stossel George Cleveland Warner Anderson Konstantin Shayne Tom Trout
A bellboy at a swanky New York hotel starts to ignore his girlfriend after meeting a beautiful European princess.
War
USA
1944
110 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Michèle Morgan Claude Rains Philip Dorn Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre George Tobias Victor Francen Helmut Dantine John Loder Konstantin Shayne
captain prisoner leader major convict gripping spirited thrilling ship prison marseilles, france world war ii prison break patriotism blackmail murder redemption sacrifice escape 1930s
Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.
Romance
USA
1949
119 Minutes
Walter Pidgeon Ethel Barrymore Peter Lawford Angela Lansbury Janet Leigh Louis Calhern Francis L. Sullivan Melville Cooper Robert Coote Alan Napier Roman Toporow
colonel mother superior major aide ballerina private tense emotional vienna convent train station rome repatriation communism faith romance duty suicide quest escape
Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael S. "Hooky" Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1951
83 Minutes
Frank Lovejoy Dorothy Hart Philip Carey Richard Webb James Millican Ron Hagerthy Paul Picerni Frank Gerstle Russ Conway Hope Kramer Kasia Orzazekski
undercover agent communist brother woman chief patriotic spirited passionate melodramatic hotel pittsburgh courtroom apartment undercover operations mccarthyism communism paranoia new identity deception sacrifice
In Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage boy thinks he's a real Red.
Mystery & Thriller
1952
108 Minutes
James Mason Danielle Darrieux Michael Rennie Walter Hampden Oscar Karlweis Herbert Berghof John Wengraf Ben Astar Roger Plowden Michael Pate Ivan Triesault
spy mercenary countess ambassador agent cool tense creative turkey rio de janeiro world war ii espionage nazism true crime escape love fall 1940s
The Albanian valet (James Mason) for the British ambassador to Turkey sells secrets to World War II Germans.