The Walls Came Tumbling Down (film)

The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Directed by	Lothar Mendes
Produced by	Albert J. Cohen
Written by	Jo Eisinger (novel) Wilfred H. Petitt
Starring	Lee Bowman Marguerite Chapman Edgar Buchanan George Macready
Music by	Marlin Skiles
Cinematography	Charles Lawton Jr.
Edited by	Gene Havlick
Production company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	June 7, 1946
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Walls Came Tumbling Down is a 1946 American crime film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Lee Bowman, Marguerite Chapman and Edgar Buchanan. It is considered a film noir.^[1]

Synopsis

A newspaper reporter investigates when one his friends is murdered, a crime apparently connected to a missing art work.

Partial cast

Lee Bowman as Gilbert Archer
Marguerite Chapman as Patricia Foster, AKA Laura Browning
Edgar Buchanan as Rev. George Bradford
George Macready as Matthew Stoker
Lee Patrick as Susan
Jonathan Hale as Captain Griffin
Elisabeth Risdon as Catherine Walsh
J. Edward Bromberg as Ernst Helms
Miles Mander as Dr. Marko
Moroni Olsen as Bishop Martin
Katherine Emery as Mrs. Stoker
Noel Cravat as Rausch
Robert Ryan as Detective Regan
Charles La Torre as Mario Bianca

References

↑ Spicer p.422

Bibliography

Spicer, Andrew. Historical Dictionary of Film Noir. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

External links

The Walls Came Tumbling Down at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Lothar Mendes

The Secret of Santa Maria (1921)
The Adventurer (1922)
Certificates of Death (1923)
The Island of Tears (1923)
The Monk from Santarem (1924)
Love is Blind (1926)
Three Cuckoo Clocks (1926)
Prince of Tempters (1926)
Convoy (1927)
A Night of Mystery (1928)
Street of Sin (1928)
Interference (1928)
The Four Feathers (1929)
Dangerous Curves (1929)
Illusion (1929)
The Marriage Playground (1929)
Paramount on Parade (1930)
Ladies' Man (1931)
Personal Maid (1931)
Strangers in Love (1932)
Payment Deferred (1932)
If I Had a Million (1932)
Luxury Liner (1933)
Jew Süss (1934)
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
Moonlight Sonata (1937)
International Squadron (1941)
Flight for Freedom (1943)
Tampico (1944)
The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)

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