Paul L. Stein

Directing

Paul L. Stein

Born 1892-02-04 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Ludwig Stein (4 February 1892 – 2 May 1951) was an Austrian-born film director with 67 films to his credit. Stein began his career in Berlin in 1918 and worked exclusively in the German silent film industry until 1926, when he first went to Hollywood, and spent the next five years commuting between Germany and the U.S., where he worked with stars such as Jeanette MacDonald, Lillian Gish and Constance Bennett. In 1931, Stein relocated to England after gaining a contract with British International Pictures, where he was assigned a number of big-name prestige productions, including some of the popular operetta films of the mid-1930s. These included Blossom Time and Heart's Desire starring his boyhood friend Richard Tauber, who also made cameo appearances in two of his post-war films Waltz Time and Lisbon Story. For most his career, Stein's credits tended to be films primarily aimed at female audiences, although later he also directed crime and spy thrillers. Stein remained in England for the rest of his life and career, becoming a British citizen in 1938.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Mimi poster
5.8

A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.

Mimi

1935

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10.0

Ellen, the secretary to General Manager Rasmussen, marries her fiancé Norbert Larsen, who also works at the steelworks. They have a happy marriage until Norbert falls ill: Only a trip to the south can save him.

Das Opfer der Ellen Larsen

1921

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10.0

Ellen, the secretary to General Manager Rasmussen, marries her fiancé Norbert Larsen, who also works at the steelworks. They have a happy marriage until Norbert falls ill: Only a trip to the south can save him.

Das Opfer der Ellen Larsen

1921

Lily Christine poster
10.0

Lily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert Harvey.

Lily Christine

1932

Poison Pen poster
6.7

The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

Poison Pen

1939

The Forbidden Woman poster
7.0

A colonel of the French army in North Africa believes his brother, a sensitive musician, to be in love with the colonel's wife and so arranges for his brother to be drafted into the colonel's own corps. Unknown to either is the fact that the colonel's wife is actually an Arab spy.

The Forbidden Woman

1927

The Red Peacock poster
10.0

A modern adaptation of Dumas' Camille.

The Red Peacock

1920

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NR

A minister founds a fraud company, but a lawyer smells a rat.

Gewalt gegen Recht

1920

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8.0

A notorious swindler who returns from abroad and decides to reform his life for the sake of his estranged family.

It Happened to One Man

1940

Counterblast poster
6.3

An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned germ warfare.

Counterblast

1948

Fires of Love poster
7.0

In a small town, the dancer Inge Maria Torselli is very popular with the theater audience. Her father is a ballet master and trained her. Lieutenant Count von Arenheim falls in love with her. But his childhood friend Harald von Bodenstein is also at her feet. The lieutenant asks the father for his daughter's hand in marriage and in order to be able to get married, he applies for his release from the military. His superiors and his mother have certain prejudices against the dancer for whom the lieutenant wants to sacrifice his career. Meanwhile, his old friend Harald tries to forget his grief that Inge didn't choose him. The lieutenant's mother sets the condition that the dancer gives up the stage forever. (Bundesarchiv)

Fires of Love

1925

Born to Love poster
5.3

A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.

Born to Love

1931

My Official Wife poster
8.0

A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women and spectacular settings.

My Official Wife

1926

The Lottery Bride poster
5.3

Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.

The Lottery Bride

1930

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sturmflut des Lebens

1921

Sin Takes a Holiday poster
5.6

Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from plain to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair.

Sin Takes a Holiday

1930

Waltz Time poster
10.0

Waltz Time is a 1945 British musical film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Carol Raye, Peter Graves and Patricia Medina. In Imperial Vienna a young Grand Duchess is prevented from marrying the man she loves.

Waltz Time

1945

The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery poster
6.0

The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the programme to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between them and enlist the aid of the panel in trapping the guilty party.

The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery

1950

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der ewige Kampf

1921

The Climbers poster
9.0

The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into Puerto Rico, where she is forced to behave in very unladylike manners, such as riding horses like a cowboy, and dueling with and fending off various brigands and bandits.

The Climbers

1927

Black Limelight poster
6.6

This gripping, atmospheric crime thriller from Austrian-born director Paul Stein stars Oscar nominee Raymond Massey as a man at the centre of a multiple murder investigation – a case that sparks a sensationalist press frenzy when it becomes clear that the killer only strikes when there is a full moon.

Black Limelight

1938

Red Wagon poster
7.0

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.

Red Wagon

1933

Don't Tell the Wife poster
9.0

The Carters, a nouveau riche couple from Peoria, Illinois, decide to take a trip to Europe in the company of John Carter's best friend Henry. While in Paris, Henry begins squiring the coquettish Suzanne, who throws him over in favor of Carter.

Don't Tell the Wife

1927

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8.0

Intrigue or The Martyrium is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Pola Negri and Eduard von Winterstein.

Intrigue

1920