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House on Telegraph Hill is a 1951 American film noir thriller directed by Robert Wise, starring Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, and William Lundigan. The film received an Academy Award nomination for its art direction.
The House on Telegraph Hill. Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder after she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Robert Wise
- 1951-06-11
At the end of the WWII, a concentration camp inmate takes on the identity of her close friend who died there. Eventually, she manages to emigrate to San Francisco, claiming to be the mother of the child the other woman sent there shortly before the war.
Upon emerging from a Nazi death camp, Victoria Kowelska (Valentina Cortesa) takes the identity of a friend who died there. She travels to the United States where she meets...
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- Robert Wise
- Mystery & Thriller
- Richard Basehart
House on Telegraph Hill - (Original Trailer) A concentration camp survivor assumes a dead woman's identity but gets caught in a wealthy family's intrigues in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951).
- Robert Wise, Horace Hough, Anthony Jowitt
- Richard Basehart
The House On Telegraph Hill, based on the book 'The Frightened Child' by Dana Lyon, was released in May, 1951. Deception, mystery and a murder plot unfold amongst mid-century San Francisco locations (filmed in 1950).
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Feb 3, 2020 · House on Telegraph Hill is a 1951 American film noir directed by Robert Wise, and starring Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, and William Lundigan. Fay Baker also stars in the film, which received an Academy Award nomination for its art direction. The hill in the title is San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, where much of the story takes place.
