Karl Stepanek Trailers
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Though born in Czechoslovakia, actor Karel Stepanek was generally regarded as a German actor due to his extensive film work in Germany (as Karl Stepanek) in the years before World War II. Stepanek fled to England in 1940, where, like many European refugee actors, he specialized in portraying Teutonic villains. He tried to stay away from out-and-out Nazi roles, but his predilection for wearing black uniforms and barking out guttural commands left little doubt as to the political preferences of Stepanek's screen characters. One of his most typical characterizations could be found in the 1946 POW drama, The Captive Heart; Stepanek also registered well as a friendlier foreigner in The Fallen Idol (1949). Commuting between London and Hollywood, Karel Stepanek continued to fight World War II, usually on the wrong side, into such '60s films as Sink the Bismarck! (1960), I Aim at the Stars (1960) and Operation Crossbow (1965).
Most Popular Karl Stepanek Trailers
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12 November 1936
The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate.
07 October 1931
Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
03 August 1942
A British factory is inefficient because of pre-war rules and red tape. A Soviet trades union representative shows workers and management the value of unity.
10 November 1955
An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.
05 October 1942
World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.
29 April 1946
A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis.
01 May 1954
Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it.
01 January 1954
A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Origina"
31 January 1951
Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him.
18 May 1948
An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned germ warfare.
01 April 1965
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.
15 October 1966
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.
11 February 1960
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II.
31 October 2003
Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director, all staged outdoors in manifestly frigid conditions.
04 April 1939
Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
12 November 1965
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
31 August 1949
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died.
17 March 1967
Fifth Jerry Cotton Movie. A rich capitalist is blackmailed and threatened with the murder of his daughter.
01 March 1956
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.
05 April 1943
British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal for acts of sabotage.
30 September 1948
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
16 November 1955
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
13 December 1956
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne.
01 March 1957
In this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary.
02 September 1960
Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling.
28 July 1949
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
31 December 1949
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
11 September 1950
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery.
18 March 1953
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
05 July 1965
An English spy (Tom Adams) guards a Scandinavian scientist (Karl Stepanek) who has sold an anti-gravity device to each side.
27 January 1960
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly.
14 March 1932
Story of a rendezvous in Paris which is prepared through telephone calls between a Berlin telephonist and his female colleague in Paris.
14 April 1948
A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged batteries and with limited food supplies, the survivors must come to a decision -- whether to stay and wait for help they believe is coming or to leave the shelter of the wrecked plane and set out in bad weather to try to reach civilization.
28 June 1951
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant.
07 August 1970
From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world.
29 July 1952
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
01 September 1964
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.
13 October 1969
U.S. Secret Service agent Peter Novak goes undercover with Scotland Yard officer Thompson to halt a murderous gang of counterfeiters known as the Golden Goose.
02 June 1966
The story of a pimp who falls in love with one of his victims, is "purified" by it, but also perishes.
15 March 1939
Vienna is celebrating New Year’s Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of the First World War.
18 October 1943
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
14 October 1955
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.
01 June 1952
An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.
21 April 1953
Two adventures dive for treasure off the coast of Jamaica.
24 November 1955
Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a knight.
17 January 1969
Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and British military brass enters into a friendly rivalry with British Major Giles Burnside, who is in charge of assigning the displaced persons into either the American or Russian zones.
11 August 1943
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial.
14 April 1933
During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer.
01 March 1957
One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis.
19 March 1932
By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocadero”.
26 August 1936
Renate Hubricht finds her uncle, the money broker Theodor Hubricht, murdered in his villa. That very night, the banker Lorik is arrested, who was last seen in Hubricht’s house.
14 October 1949
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s.
21 June 1950
In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.
