House on Telegraph Hill (Fox Film Noir)

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Actor(s):

Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan, Fay Baker, Gordon Gebert

Director(s):

Robert Wise

Label: 20th Century Fox
Publisher(s):

20th Century Fox

Studio: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Binding: DVD
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
MPN: FOXD2232781D
Format(s): Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $13.49
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Editorial Reviews

Description

House On Telegraph Hill is an intriguing cliffhanger set in a spooky Victorian mansion below Coit Tower in San Francisco.

Victoria Kowelska (Valentina Cortese) has lived through World War II bombings and relocation camps, and has finally emigrated to America. Now, she should be blissfully happy with her devoted husband (Richard Basehart) in their mansion overlooking the San Francisco Bay, but Victoria is not who she seems, her child belongs to someone else, and her husband and housekeeper are frightening her half to death.

Customer Reviews

Good movie

There is quite a bit of mystery in this movie. It's a pretty good film to watch.

great film noir

I just love movies like these.... so there's really not much else to say. If you like the old film noir type, this is one for you.
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Good Film Noir Flick

Good old fashion movie. Very intersting concept! Quality of DVD is excellent! If you like mysteries you'll love this movie. It's a good who-done it.

tight, taut psychological thriller

THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL is one of my favourite noir films. It stars the rarely-mentioned Valentina Cortese; and is set against the backdrop of San Francisco's Coit Tower area.

Polish concentration camp inmate Victoria Kowelska (Valentina Cortese) assumes the identity of her best friend, and after the liberation of the Bergen Belsen camp, moves to America. Once settled, she marries into the family of her deceased friend and becomes the mother of her son, Christopher. But Victoria's life takes a deadly turn when she starts having mysterious accidents. The brakes on her car fail, and her nightly glass of orange juice starts to taste very bitter. Then there's her husband's close association with the housekeeper...

Shades of "Gaslight" and "Rebecca" echo through THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL, the story of a woman driven to the brink of hysteric paranoia...only in this case it's the wrong woman! The plight of Victoria and her guilt at having taken the place of her friend is well played, and Ms Cortese delivers a strong, sympathetic performance. William Lundigan, Richard Basehart and Fay Baker offer strong support.

HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL, directed with great skill by Robert Wise, deserves it's place on the shelf next to such noir masterpieces as "Laura" and "Double Indemnity". Highly-recommended.

Somber film noir mystery

Using contrasted black and white cinematography director Robert Wise created the proper mood for a film noir theme in "The House on Telegraph Hill". Noir femme fatale Victoria Kowelska played by Valentina Cortesa was an unfortunate Warsaw born native who endured the horrors of WWII and incarceration in the Belsen concentration camp. Upon her liberation she assumed the identity of her closest friend who had passed away in the camp, Karin, who had sent her young son Chris to relatives in San Francisco prior to the war.

After a hard life in refugee camps she made her way to America where she learned that Karin's and now her great aunt was the matron of a huge family fortune. The son Chris was the sole heir seeing that the old woman had recently died. Ambitious and unctuous relative Alan Spender played by Richard Basehart was appointed the young boy's guardian. In a whirlwind romance Basehart and Cortesa are soon married and move into the palatial Victorian mansion atop Telegraph Hill. Cortesa and the the boy Chris played by Gordon Gebert hit it off but all is not well.

She befriends Basehart's longtime acquaintance Marc Bennett played by William Lundigan who is his lawyer and actually met Cortesa as a major involved with repatriating European refugees. She needs a friend because she almost immediately butts heads with the sinister and sketchy Margaret, the young boy's governess, played by Fay Baker. Cortesa also is becoming paranoid that Basehart is trying to kill her when the brakes in her car fail.

It all turns out well in the end as a righteous twist in the plot rights all that was wrong.

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