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Maria Schell
Maria Schell was an Austrian actress, born on January 15, 1926, in Vienna, Austria. She began acting in films in the 1940s and was known for her captivating performances in German-language films. She appeared in several international films and was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in "The Hanging Tree." She passed away on April 26, 2005, in Preitenegg, Austria, at the age of 79.
Titles credited to Maria Schell
The Hanging Tree
Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his serv...
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The Odessa File
After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentratio...
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The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more im...
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The Brothers Karamazov
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, al...
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Cimarron
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
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Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to...
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Il trono di fuoco
Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord Chancellor in England torn by strife between the re...
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Der heiße Tod
Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionally hilarious as sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz...
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