William Dieterle Movies

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

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...

Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing,...

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

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

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

At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes...