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Lilli Palmer has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 2010s.
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Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.
Dir. Chicho Ibáñez Serrador · With Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Dir. Michael Anderson · With Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
Dir. Robert Rossen · With John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.
Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner · With Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason
At a media-swamped party to celebrate his seventieth birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.
Dir. Orson Welles · With John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich
During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy. Teamed with a fellow agent posing as his wife and an eccentric assassin known as “the General,” the trio close in on their target — until two of them grow ambivalent when their duty to the mission clashes with their consciences.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, Peter Lorre
