The Devil Makes Three (film)

The Devil Makes Three
Directed by Andrew Marton
Produced by Richard Goldstone
Written by Lawrence P. Bachmann
Jerry Davis
Starring Gene Kelly
Pier Angeli
Richard Egan
Music by Max Steiner
Cinematography Václav Vích
Edited by Ben Lewis
Distributed by Loew's
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
 United States September 19, 1952
Running time
 96 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1,005,000[1]
Box office $1,485,000[1]

The Devil Makes Three is a 1952 thriller film set in post-World War II Germany, starring Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli and Richard Egan.

Plot

Captain Jeff Eliot returns to Germany in 1947 to visit the family who rescued him and hid him from the Nazis after his plane was shot down over Munich in World War II.

He learns that most of the family was killed by a U.S. Air Force air raid. The only survivor is the daughter, Wilhelmina Lehrt, who is working as a bar maid in a nightclub and hates Americans. Eliot nonetheless manages to romance Wilhelmina, and in his time at the nightclub, he develops a friendship with Heisemann, a comic.

Heisemann, it turns out, has secret ties to an underground Nazi revivalist movement. When Eliot discovers this, he tells his superiors, who order him to continue his relationship with Wilhemina and try to learn more about Heisemann's operation.

The chase scene at the end of the picture, ends in Berchtesgaden, and the scenes of Heisemann being chased, were filmed right inside the ruins of Hitler's house. Heisemann in the end is standing on the frame of the huge picture window of the house.

Cast

Reception

According to MGM records the film made $743,000 in the US and Canada and $742,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $57,000.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

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