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Bernard Vorhaus (25 December 1904 - 23 November 2000) was an American film director born in New York City.
The Harvard University graduate, in addition to directing thirty-two films, was also the mentor to future film director David Lean, some of whose work as a film editor early in his career was on Vorhaus pictures. He worked steadily as a screenwriter in Hollywood while in his 20s but wanted to direct movies. He eventually decided to move to England and began directing B-movies or quota quickies, most notably The Last Journey (1935). After success in England, Vorhaus moved back to the U.S. and began working at Republic Pictures again directing B-movies.
Vorhaus was blacklisted in 1951 at HUAC hearings. Vorhaus had already moved to Europe at that time and directed a few minor films while there. He finally returned to England and retired from the film business, founding a business specialising in house renovations.
Vorhaus had two children, Gwyn and David, an electronic music pioneer who worked under the name White Noise.
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26 August 1953
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome.
04 March 1935
When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.
12 May 1946
A farm girl has a romance with a ski instructor.
20 July 1941
Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new life, but one of the real criminals shows up to claim the loot which he believes Smith has.
01 December 1935
British drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus.
16 September 1935
Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.
10 May 1926
Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident.
21 August 1956
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
18 June 1959
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
20 May 1954
Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia's duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Soon after arrival, Renzo will get in a big trouble and he will be forced to choose between going to church for marriage or going to prison.
17 November 1939
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
29 September 1954
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub.
04 April 1940
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
18 March 1938
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have.
27 May 1941
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman.
27 October 1959
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah.
12 August 1935
Derwent dreams up an unbreakable alibi for a murder. Once the crime is attempted, it then falls to Pember and Brace of Scotland Yard to sort things out.
03 February 1939
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over.
01 January 1953
A short that follows the legend of Wilhelm Gorkeit of Tellikon (William Tell), the legendary archer and hero from Switzerland.
18 December 1941
Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P.
21 July 1939
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son.
15 May 1934
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
27 December 1933
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.
02 February 1943
Military training film on the characteristics, capabilities, weaknesses, and recognition of the World War II Japanese fighter aircraft known as the Zero.
31 January 1933
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph.
10 August 1951
A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château.
29 July 1948
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf.
18 October 1947
A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.
03 July 1940
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler.
22 August 1938
In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his friend, but his intentions are not entirely honorable as the detective really wants to know the location of the loot his father stashed during a robbery.
24 December 1942
Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show.
01 March 1933
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
01 August 1944
A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the Germans in this dramatic WW2 training film.
22 April 1941
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery.
01 December 1936
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks.
01 October 1935
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman.
01 October 1952
Lorna, the daughter of an American playboy, enters a girls' school for the international smart-set, in the Alps, where the main course of study appears to be how to trap a rich man.
20 May 1950
Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates.
27 March 1942
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name.
14 February 2002
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.
22 February 1933
'Lady Violet and Harry Newman are engaged. Corry, a jealous rival, employs Mabell, a night-club dancer, to make love to Harry when drunk and demand money from Harry's father for letters she has written to the son.
01 June 1937
The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
10 June 1928
Frenchman is engaged to marry South American heiress but a fortune-hunting friend disrupts the romance and marries the girl himself.
26 November 1943
Joe Instructor, an Army Air Forces flight instructor, visits Pilot Heaven and has a discussion with Saint Peter about the unacceptable number of pilots who have died and gone to heaven without ever getting into combat, all as a result of haphazard or inattentive flying.
27 October 1930
A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by a Viennese woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege.
