John Carradine - Waterfront - 1944
Intrigue abounds in Waterfront, a 1944 wartime film starring John Carradine and J. Carrol Naish.
J. Carrol Naish has the role of “optometrist” Dr. Karl Decker, who is actually a Nazi spy on the San Francisco waterfront, and Carradine also portrays a Nazi agent (Victor Marlow). As the movie begins, Decker has been robbed, and the thieves took his codebook. The movie follows the consequences of the efforts of Decker and Marlow to retrieve the codebook.
The film was directed by Steve Sekely.
Winterset - Film Adaptation of Maxwell Anderson Play
The 1936 film, Winterset, is a screen adaptation of the play by Maxwell Anderson. Three performers who were in the Broadway play - Burgess Meredith, Margo, and Eduardo Ciannelli - were also in the film. Members of the film cast also included Mischa Auer, John Carradine, and Stanley Ridges. The film was directed by Alfred Santell.
The story follows the efforts of Mio Romagna (Meredith) to track down the truth about the circumstances surrounding the execution of his immigrant father Bartolomeo Romagna (Carradine) for crimes (murder and robbery) that he didn’t commit.
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