ID

FBW001324      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1944

Original Title

Storm over Lisbon

Directed by

George Sherman

Produced by

Republic Pictures Corporation, Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Producer: George Sherman; Script: Doris Gilbert, Dane Lussier; Based on: Elizabeth Meehan (Story); Camera: John Alton; Special optical effects: Theodore Lydecker; Editing: Arthur Roberts; Art direction: Russell Kimball, Gano Chittenden; Musical direction: Morton Scott; Musical arrangements: Walter Scharf, Maurice de Packh

Cast

Vera Ralston (Maritza); Richard Arlen (John Craig); Erich von Stroheim (Deresco); Robert Livingston (Bill Flanagan); Otto Kruger (Alexis Vanderlyn); Eduardo Ciannelli (Blanco); Mona Barrie (Evelyn); Frank Orth (Murgatroyd); Sarah Edwards (Maude); Alice Fleming (Agatha); Leon Belasco (Fado Singer); Vincent Gironda (Fado Singer); Bud Geary (Henchman); Kenne Duncan (Henchman); Roy Barcroft (Henchman); Ruth Roman (Aida Broadbent Girls - Dancer); Karen Randle (Aida Broadbent Girls - Dancer); Annyse Sherman (Aida Broadbent Girls - Dancer); Marie Day; Lucien Prival; Muni Seroff (Men in Tails); Lester Sharpe (Overfelder); Kirk Alyn (Bandleader); Gino Corrado (Headwaiter); Jack George (Waiter); Willy Kaufman (Baron); Almeda Fowler (Woman); Alphonse Martell (Maitre d'Hotel); Manuel Paris (Roulette Dealer); Louis Ludwig Lowy (Croupier); Georgia Davis (Canteen Girl); Charles Wagenheim (Frustrated Man); Eula Guy (Hysterical Wife); George Derrick (Gigolo); Victor Travers (Man with Newspaper); Fred Rapport (Claim Check Man); Richard Alexander (Doorman); George Humbert (Italian Waiter); Georges Renavent (Secret Service Official); Joseph Kirk (Driver)

Length

86'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

Deresco is an unscupulous club's owner of a ritzy Portuguese cafe-gambling den. He runs up against John Craig and Maritza when he tries to sell the former's secrets to enemy spies.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US); Foreign agents

Bibliography

- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987