The Vicious Circle (1948 film)
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Directed by | W. Lee Wilder |
Written by | Heinz Herald (play) and Geza Herczeg (play and screenplay) and Guy Endore (screenplay) Noel Langley (adaption) |
Produced by | W. Lee Wilder |
Cinematography | George Robinson |
Edited by | John F. Link Sr. Asa Boyd Clark |
Music by | Paul Dessau |
Production company | W. Lee Wilder Productions |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Vicious Circle is a 1948 American drama film directed by W. Lee Wilder and based on the play The Burning Bush by Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg. The film is also known as Woman in Brown.
Plot summary[]
A rich Hungarian baron discovers that there are large oil deposits underneath properties owned by the villagers. He buys up all the property except those owned by Jewish families, who refuse to sell. In order to circumvent their refusal, he has the men charged with the murder of a woman, who had recently committed suicide.
Cast[]
- Conrad Nagel as Karl Nemesh - Defense Attorney
- Fritz Kortner as Joseph Schwartz - Defendant tenant
- Reinhold Schünzel as Baron Arady
- Philip Van Zandt as Calomar Balog - Special Investigator
- Lyle Talbot as Prosecutor Miller
- Edwin Maxwell as Presiding Judge
- Frank Ferguson as Stark - State attorney
- Lester Dorr as Andreas Molnar - Neighbor
- Michael Mark as Gustav Horney - Land owner
- Belle Mitchell as Mrs. Julianna Horney - Anna's Master
- as Mrs. Maria Tamashy - Anna's mother
- as Clara Tamashy - Anna's sister
- Rita Gould as Ethel Mihaly
- as Samuel Schwartz (George)
- David Alexander as Fisher
- Ben Welden as Constable
- Nina Hansen as Mrs. Schwartz
- as Anna Tamashy
- as Irene Peter
- as Marten
- Sam Bernard as Herman
- as Dr. Daroush
- Peter Brocco as Dr. Georges Samosch
- as Margaret Daroush - Witness
- Don C. Harvey
- Fred Fox
- David Bauer (billed as Herman Waldman)
Soundtrack[]
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External links[]
- The Vicious Circle at IMDb
- The Vicious Circle is available for free download at the Internet Archive
Categories:
- 1948 films
- English-language films
- 1948 drama films
- American films
- American drama films
- American black-and-white films
- American films based on plays
- Films directed by W. Lee Wilder
- Films scored by Paul Dessau
- Films with screenplays by Noel Langley
- 1940s drama film stubs