Wera Engels

Talking About Jacqueline (1937)

Since her father died, rich and carefree Jacqueline Topelius makes magazine covers and causes social gossip with her flirtatious adventures around Europe, leaving a string of admirers behind without much concern. Her sister June, living in Paris, is all th ...

Stjenka Rasin (1936)

Russia, 1667: The Cossacks, led by Rasin, are ill-treated by Prince Dolgoruki who arrests and sentences Rasin to forced labor on the ship that brings the Prince and his daughter to her arranged wedding. But the Princess falls for Rasin. ...

Hong Kong Nights (1935)

Customs agents track a ring of arms smugglers into Hong Kong. ...

The Great Impersonation (1935)

The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy. ...

Together We Live (1935)

A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement in America. ...

Sweepstake Annie (1935)

A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better. ...

Fugitive Road (1934)

An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war. ...

The Great Jasper (1933)

Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son. ...

The Ringer (1932)

A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia. ...

Lucky children (1931)

Scent of the Woman in Black (1931)

The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder. ...

English as it is spoken (1931)