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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.
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.
- (1.3K)
- 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
- 676
- Dancing Doris
In October 1848, when young Frenchwoman Madeline Minot arrives at the New York townhouse of Thevenet, the elderly grandfather of her lover, Paul De Lage, she is disturbed to observe a rowdy party inside. Thinking that she must have the wrong address, Madeline goes to nearby Flaherty's tavern and confides in Dupin, a kind, but cynical man who is ...
- Fletcher Markle, Jerry Thorpe
- Joseph Cotten
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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In 1848 New York, a beautiful but naive French girl arrives by ship seeking out her fiancée's grandfather in hopes of securing funds for the young man's political cause back in Europe; instead, she finds the elderly millionaire under constant danger of being murdered by his mercenary household staff--with only a mysterious wine-lover (and unempl...