List of the best Victor Francen movies: Hold Back the Dawn(1941), The Beast With Five Fingers(1946), Confidential Agent(1945), San Antonio(1945), Bedevilled(1955), In Our Time(1944), The Conspirators(1944), The Mask of Dimitrios(1944), Ten Gentlemen From West Point(1942), The Desert Song(1943), Passage to Marseille(1944), Devotion(1946) ... ...
Romance
USA
1941
115 Minutes
Van Den Luecken
Charles Boyer Olivia de Havilland Paulette Goddard Victor Francen Walter Abel Curt Bois Rosemary DeCamp Eric Feldary Nestor Paiva Eva Puig Micheline Cheirel
gigolo teacher girlfriend melodramatic mexico los angeles border hollywood, calif. immigration love deception escape discovery 1940s
Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
Horror
USA
1946
88 Minutes
Francis Ingram
Robert Alda Andrea King Peter Lorre Victor Francen J. Carrol Naish Charles Dingle John Alvin David Hoffman Patricia Barry Barbara Brown William Edmunds
personal assistant pianist nurse con artist lawyer astrologer brooding creepy melodramatic san stefano italy villa village supernatural death jealousy money inheritance fear mystery
In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a one-handed, wheelchair-bound pianist, with a strong belief in the occult, is murdered.
Drama
USA
1945
118 Minutes
Licata
Charles Boyer Lauren Bacall Peter Lorre Victor Francen Wanda Hendrix George Coulouris Katina Paxinou John Warburton Holmes Herbert Dan Seymour Art Foster
secret agent fascist love interest double agent suspenseful intense dark london espionage war violence fascism love quest rivalry 1930s
In 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts.
Western
USA
1945
111 Minutes
Legare
Errol Flynn Alexis Smith S.Z. Sakall Victor Francen Florence Bates John Litel Paul Kelly John Alvin Monte Blue Robert Shayne Robert Barrat
rancher kingpin dancer gunslinger engaging thrilling san antonio, texas mexico alamo ranch range war cattle theft old west justice romance quest revenge rivalry 19th century
Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town.
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
85 Minutes
Father Du Rocher
Anne Baxter Steve Forrest Simone Renant Victor Francen Maurice Teynac Robert Christopher Ina de la Hye Joseph Tomelty Olivier Hussenot Jean Ozenne
Nightclub singer fleeing the scene of a murder is protected by a young man who is studying for the priesthood.
Drama
USA
1944
110 Minutes
Count Pawel Orwid
Ida Lupino Paul Henreid Nancy Coleman Mary Boland Victor Francen Alla Nazimova Michael Chekhov Marek Windheim Ivan Triesault John Bleifer
aristocrat count american wife antique dealer rousing emotional warsaw, poland estate wedding world war ii class distinctions love nazis invasion royalty love sacrifice rivalry 1930s
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1944
101 Minutes
Hugo Von Mohr
Hedy Lamarr Paul Henreid Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre Victor Francen Joseph Calleia Carol Thurston Vladimir Sokoloff Edward Ciannelli Steven Geray Kurt Katch
During WW2, in neutral Portugal, a Dutch resistance fighter is attempting to find passage to England while trying to avoid Nazi spies and Portuguese policemen.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
95 Minutes
Wladislaw Grudek
Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre Zachary Scott Faye Emerson George Tobias Victor Francen Steven Geray Florence Bates Edward Ciannelli Kurt Katch Marjorie Hoshelle
crime boss writer stranger mistress colonel intricate gritty istanbul morgue paris apartment research murder crime ring blackmail assassination discovery revenge 1940s
Mystery writer Cornelius Leyden becomes intrigued when the murdered body of a vicious career criminal washes up in the Bosphorus.
Adventure
USA
1942
105 Minutes
Florimond Massey
George Montgomery Maureen O'Hara John Sutton Laird Cregar Shepperd Strudwick Victor Francen Harry Davenport Ward Bond Douglas Dumbrille Ralph Byrd Joe Brown Jr.
cadet major socialite congressman military officer fiancée gripping rousing melodramatic west point, n.y. military academy barracks congress military military school training patriotism honor love interest sacrifice
In the early 19th century, Congress mulls the idea of re-opening the West Point military training academy that formed officers for the American Revolutionary War.
Musical
USA
1943
90 Minutes
Caid Yousseff
Dennis Morgan Irene Manning Bruce Cabot Lynne Overman Gene Lockhart Faye Emerson Victor Francen Curt Bois
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
War
USA
1944
110 Minutes
Capt. Patain Malo
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.
Biography
USA
1946
107 Minutes
Constantin Heger
Ida Lupino Paul Henreid Olivia de Havilland Sydney Greenstreet Nancy Coleman Arthur Kennedy Dame May Whitty Victor Francen Montagu Love Ethel Griffies Odette Myrtil
author artist sister brother melodramatic emotional england household writing romance emily bronte charlotte bronte anne bronte love 19th century
Genius authors Emily and Charlotte Bronte fall in love with their curate as they seek to get their work published.
Musical, Gay & Lesbian
USA
1946
128 Minutes
Anatole Giron
Cary Grant Alexis Smith Ginny Simms Jane Wyman Eve Arden Victor Francen Alan Hale Dorothy Malone
composer nurse friend singer grandfather mother touching inspiring new haven, conn. yale indiana new york city theater hospital aspirations music world war i love cole porter show business
A fictionalized biopic of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Drama, History
USA
1943
123 Minutes
Vyshinsky
Walter Huston Ann Harding Oscar Homolka George Tobias Gene Lockhart Frieda Inescort Eleanor Parker Richard Travis Helmut Dantine Victor Francen Henry Daniell
ambassador joseph e. davies joseph stalin franklin delano roosevelt communist patriotic spirited dense soviet union united states propaganda soviet union communism foreign relations quest 1930s
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.