Helmut Dantine – MRQE

Edge of Darkness

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor’s wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor’s daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor’s son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.

Mission to Moscow

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Stranger from Venus

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A stranger turns up at an English country pub and asks to stay, although reveals that he has no money. He even claims to have no name. The police become suspicious when he reveals details about Susan North, a local girl who has gone missing. However, when the police try to take the stranger in for questioning, they find that they are unable to lay their hands on him. Susan then turns up, revealing that she has been in a car crash and how the stranger saved and miraculously healed her. The stranger tells them that he is a visitor from the planet Venus. The authorities block off all exits in and out of the town. The stranger tells government representatives that he wants a meeting with heads of world governments for when his people arrive in their ship in four days time. As they set this up, the stranger discovers that the authorities instead plan to lay a trap to capture his peoples ship something they do not realise could have disastrous consequences for Earth.

Call Me Madam

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.

Guerrilla Girl

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Thriller – During World War II, Helmut Dantine specialized in playing villainous Nazis in Hollywood melodramas. He offers a compelling performance in a variation of these earlier roles in this suspense filled and politically loaded tale of intrigue. The story opens in German-occupied Athens during the darkest hours of the war. Civilians are not allowed on the streets after dark. – Helmut Dantine, Marianna, Irene Champlin

Whispering City

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.

Shadow of a Woman

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Brooke’s marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.

Hotel Berlin

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.

Passage to Marseille

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.