Fog Over Frisco
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
William Dieterle
Casts & Crew
Bette Davis
Donald Woods
Margaret Lindsay
Lyle Talbot
Hugh Herbert
Arthur Byron
Robert Barrat
Henry O'Neill
Irving Pichel
Douglass Dumbrille
Alan Hale
Gordon Westcott
Charles C. Wilson
Harold Minjir
William Demarest
Douglas Cosgrove
William B. Davidson
George Chandler
Skippy
Dick French
Harry Seymour
Eddie Shubert
Dennis O'Keefe
Lester Dorr
Wong Chung
Selmer Jackson
Harold Entwistle
Wallis Clark
Ralph Brooks
Henry Otho
Hal Price
Leo White
Donna Mae Roberts
Edward Peil Sr.
Dick Rush
Monte Vandergrift
Everett Sullivan
Loretta Andrews
Virginia Dabney
Renee Whitney
Also Directed by William Dieterle
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave for the holidays from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence.
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.
German Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
Before Ruth, the Governor's daughter, can announce her marriage to Sheldon, the Attorney General, the Governor is accused of accepting bribes. To avoid complications, they keep their marriage secret. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
Director William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and Valentina Cortese.