Robert Thoeren

Writing

Robert Thoeren

Born 1903-04-21 · Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Rage in Heaven poster
6.4

A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.

Rage in Heaven

1941

Singapore poster
6.1

After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.

Singapore

1947

Mrs. Parkington poster
6.0

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.

Mrs. Parkington

1944

The Tamer poster
7.0

A very shy person inherits a traveling circus on the express condition that he manages to present a number on the ring.

The Tamer

1938

Confessions of Felix Krull poster
6.7

Thomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel.

Confessions of Felix Krull

1957

September Affair poster
6.0

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 plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.

September Affair

1950

Summer Storm poster
5.7

It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.

Summer Storm

1944

Fanfare of Love poster
7.3

Two unemployed musicians dress up as women to be hired by an all-female orchestra called "Tulips from Holland"; they fall in love with two gorgeous musicians.

Fanfare of Love

1935

Captain Carey, U.S.A. poster
5.8

Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt. Webster Carey, the mission causes the deaths of many bystanders -- among them, Carey believes, his Italian girlfriend, Giulia de Graffi. Back home, Carey stumbles across evidence that might uncover the identity of the informant. But, when he returns to Italy to get even, Carey is stunned by what he finds.

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

1950

The Moment of Truth poster
6.0

Dr Pierre Richard learns that his wife Madeleine has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after a decade of supposedly wedded bliss. Back home, he demands answers, and a long night of explanations ensues.

The Moment of Truth

1952

Hotel Imperial poster
7.0

It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".

Hotel Imperial

1939

An Act of Murder poster
6.9

A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.

An Act of Murder

1948

O.S.S. poster
6.9

The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives.

O.S.S.

1946

Temptation poster
5.0

After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.

Temptation

1946

Bandits of the Highway poster
8.7

The film is based on a true story, concerning a series of robberies on the highways of Germany. At the time of the actual events, there was a controversy over whether or not highway patrolmen should be given permission to use firearms against perpetrators.

Bandits of the Highway

1955

My Daughter Joy poster
9.0

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.

My Daughter Joy

1950

Sarajevo poster
7.0

The film portrays the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914.

Sarajevo

1955

The Fighting O'Flynn poster
7.3

A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.

The Fighting O'Flynn

1949

Everybody's Woman poster
6.2

A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.

Everybody's Woman

1946