William Dieterle Movies

Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her...

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Madame Rinaldi, owner of a bordello, helps thief Mario Forni locate an ancient buried treasure.

The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early...

Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth...

Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.

Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the...

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown...

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.

An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the...

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.

Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.

A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable...

A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and...

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing...