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The House on Telegraph Hill. 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. Telegraph Hill is a dominant hill overlooking the water in northeast San Francisco .
The House on Telegraph Hill: Directed by Robert Wise. With Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan, Fay Baker. 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
Synopsis. When Victoria Kowelska (Valentina Cortese) leaves a Nazi concentration camp alive at the end of World War 2 when the American troops invade Europe she discovers her Polish home destroyed so she takes the identity of her deceased friend and escapes toSan Franciscoto start a new life. She discovers in her new persona that she has taken ...
Rent The House on Telegraph Hill on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Upon emerging from a Nazi death camp, Victoria Kowelska (Valentina Cortesa) takes the ...
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- Robert Wise
- Mystery & Thriller
- Richard Basehart
In the plot of The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) one can find elements of many other movies, most of all Rebecca (1940). Both center around a big house presented as a menacing character and both feature in their scenarios an abandoned shack or playhouse, a sinister housekeeper or governess, a scared new bride, and family secrets.
- Robert Wise, Horace Hough, Anthony Jowitt
- Richard Basehart
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.
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Directed by Robert Wise and starring Valentina Cortese, Richard Basehart, William Lundigan and Fay Baker, The House on Telegraph Hill isn't on everybody's must-see list of film noirs. In fact I musta seen every contentious and predictable list o' classic film noirs on the internet and The House on Telegraph Hill ain't on one of them. The House ...
