Waterfront (1944 film)

1944 American film directed by Steve Sekely

Waterfront

Directed by| Steve Sekely
Written by| Martin Mooney (story and screenplay)
Irwin Franklyn (screenplay)
Produced by| Arthur Alexander
Alfred Stern
Starring| See below
Cinematography| Robert E. Cline
Edited by| Charles Henkel Jr.

Release date

* June 10, 1944 (1944-06-10)

Running time

| 68 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

Waterfront is a 1944 American film from PRC Pictures directed by Steve Sekely.[1]

## Plot

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In San Francisco during World War II, Dr. Carl Decker (J. Carrol Naish) is a local Nazi spy leader undercover as an optometrist. While he is walking on the San Francisco waterfront at night, his decoder book and list of West Coast spies are stolen by the waterfront thug, Adolph Mertz. Victor Marlow comes to town, contacts Decker for his next assignment but the message he has is undecipherable without the book. It is a race to recover the book by two opposing teams: Decker and Marlow, and Zimmerman and Kramer; and a race to find a serial murderer.

## Cast

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* John Carradine as Victor Marlow
* J. Carrol Naish as Dr. Carl Decker
* Maris Wrixon as Freda Hauser, daughter
* Edwin Maxwell as Max Kramer
* Terry Frost as Jerry Donovan, Freda's boyfriend)
* John Bleifer as Oscar Zimmerman, owner—Anchor Cafe
* Marten Lamont as Mike Gorman
* Olga Fabian as Mrs Emma Hauser as rooming house operator
* Claire Rochelle as Maisie
* Billy Nelson as Butch
* as Adolph Mertz, waterfront thug

## References

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1. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Waterfront

## External links

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* Waterfront at IMDb
* Waterfront is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

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Films directed by Steve Sekely

* The Great Longing (1930)
* Hyppolit, the Butler (1931)
* Flying Gold (1932)
* A Tremendously Rich Man (1932)
* Rouletabille the Aviator (1932)
* Miss Iza (1933)
* Romance in Budapest (1933)
* Scandal in Budapest (1933)
* The Rakoczi March (1933)
* Cornflower (1934)
* Emmy (1934)
* Purple Lilacs (1934)
* Romance of Ida (1934)
* Ball at the Savoy (1935)
* Cafe Moscow (1936)
* Danube Rendezvous (1936)
* Be True Until Death (1936)
* Half-Rate Honeymoon (1936)
* Sensation (1936)
* A Girl Sets Out (1937)
* An Affair of Honour (1937)
* Help, I'm an Heiress (1937)
* Beauty of the Pusta (1937)
* Number 111 (1938)
* Young Noszty and Mary Toth (1938)
* Two Prisoners (1938)
* Miracle on Main Street (1939)
* Behind Prison Walls (1943)
* Women in Bondage (1943)
* Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
* Lady in the Death House (1944)
* Lake Placid Serenade (1944)
* Waterfront (1944)
* My Buddy (1944)
* The Fabulous Suzanne (1946)
* Blonde Savage (1947)
* Hollow Triumph (1948)
* Amazon Quest (1949)
* Stronghold (1951)
* The Empress of China (1953)
* Desert Desperadoes (1959)
* The Day of the Triffids (1963)
* Kenner (1969)

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