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The Man with a Cloak is a 1951 American film noir crime-thriller-drama directed by Fletcher Markle and starring Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern, and Leslie Caron, and based on "The Gentleman from Paris", a short story by John Dickson Carr.
A 1951 crime drama mystery film set in 1848 New York, where a mysterious man in a cloak helps a young Frenchwoman to save her grandfather from a plot to kill him. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Fletcher Markle
- 1952-05-14
Mar 21, 2023 · A crime-drama starring Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern, and Leslie Caron, based on a John Dickson Carr story. Watch or download the full movie for free on Internet Archive.
- 81 min
- 585
- Dancing Doris
Man with a Cloak, The - (Original Trailer) A mystery man (Joseph Cotten) tries to help a young innocent (Leslie Caron) escape a murderous housekeeper (Barbara Stanwyck).
- Fletcher Markle, Jerry Thorpe
- Joseph Cotten
Jan 12, 2009 · Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. In the 1840s, Madeline Minot (Leslie Caron) travels from France to America to visit Charles Theverner (Louis Calhern), her lover's wealthy, aging relative.
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Mystery & Thriller
- Fletcher Markle
The Man with a Cloak. Summaries. In 1848 NYC, a Frenchwoman visits exiled former French Marshal Thevenet to ask for his financial help in behalf of his French grandson but Thevenet's house staff schemes to kill him and take his fortune. In 1848, young Frenchwoman Madeline Minot goes to New York City to see Thevenet, the grandfather of her fiance'.
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The parts may be greater than the whole, but Fletcher Markle’s The Man With a Cloak is an enjoyable melodrama teeming with Gothic noir themes and thoroughly inspired by a certain mid-nineteenth century poet and suspense writer. (The raven flying loose in the mansion serves as a fairly obvious clue.)
