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English. 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 Frightened Child, 1948 novel, by Dana Lyon
- Robert Bassler
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
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 her friend's son, Chris...
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- Robert Wise
- Mystery & Thriller
- Richard Basehart
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.
Synopsis. The imposing Victorian house on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, where Victoria Kowelska once thought she would find peace, is now up for sale. Victoria remembers how her story began, eleven years earlier in 1939, when the German army left her home near Warsaw, Poland in ruins: Her husband died in the siege, and Vicky became one of ...
- Robert Wise, Horace Hough, Anthony Jowitt
- Richard Basehart
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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.
