Saturday, April 18, 1970

1951: "The House on Telegraph Hill" is a good movie

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This morning, I caught just about all of "The House on Telegraph Hill", a 1951 movie with a rather interesting plot:  
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.....
Well, let me give the movie a pretty good grade.   

The cast includes  Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese and William Lundigan.    I don't know much about their backgrounds but did enjoy their performance. 

I may have to watch it again to understand a couple of things about the story.   It is very intense and the dialogue is great.

The movie is based on a book:  "The frightened child" by Dana Lyon.