The House on Telegraph Hill
The House on Telegraph Hill
The House on Telegraph Hill
Watch TrailerWatch Movie
1951
1h 33m
6.4(64 votes)
Thriller
Drama
Mystery

Overview

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.

Where to Watch

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Videos & Trailers

1 video

Cast & Crew

29 members
Acting

Richard Basehart

Alan Spender

Richard Basehart
Acting

Valentina Cortese

Victoria Kowelska

Valentina Cortese
Acting

William Lundigan

Major Marc Bennett

William Lundigan
Acting

Fay Baker

Margaret

Fay Baker
Acting

Gordon Gebert

Christopher

Gordon Gebert
Acting

Steven Geray

Dr. Burkhardt

Steven Geray
Acting

Herbert Butterfield

Joseph C. Callahan

Herbert Butterfield
Acting

Kei Thin Chung

Kei - Houseboy

No Image
Acting

John Burton

Mr. Whitmore

No Image
Acting

Katherine Meskill

Mrs. Whitmore

No Image
Acting

Mario Siletti

Tony, the Grocer

No Image
Acting

Charles Wagenheim

Man At Accident

Charles Wagenheim
Acting

David Clarke

Mechanic

David Clarke
Acting

Tamara Schee

Maria

No Image
Acting

Natasha Lytess

Karin Dernakova

Natasha Lytess
Acting

Ashmead Scott

Inspector Hardy

No Image
Acting

Tom McDonough

Farrell

No Image
Acting

Mari Young

Chinese Singer

No Image
Acting

Steve Carruthers

Restaurant Guest (uncredited)

Steve Carruthers
Acting

Harry Carter

Detective Ellis (uncredited)

Harry Carter
Acting

Spencer Chan

Chinese Cook (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Sonia Charsky

Bit Role (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Geraldine Jordan

Minor Role (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Don Kohler

Chemist (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Roger McGee

G.I. (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Leslie K. O'Pace

U.N.R.A Sergeant (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Henry Rowland

Sergeant, Interpreter (uncredited)

Henry Rowland
Acting

Jeffrey Sayre

Police Stenographer (uncredited)

Jeffrey Sayre
Acting

Glen Walters

Bit Role (uncredited)

No Image

Similar Movies

Secret Beyond the Door
6.5
1947

Secret Beyond the Door

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

Movie
The Conversation
7.5
1974

The Conversation

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Movie
Sunset Boulevard
8.3
1950

Sunset Boulevard

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Movie
Interview with the Vampire
7.4
1994

Interview with the Vampire

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

Movie
Freaks
7.8
1932

Freaks

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Movie
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
6.5
1979

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

Movie
Out of the Past
7.6
1947

Out of the Past

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

Movie
A View to a Kill
6.2
1985

A View to a Kill

A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.

Movie
Rebecca
7.9
1940

Rebecca

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

Movie
The Killing
7.7
1956

The Killing

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

Movie
Double Indemnity
8.1
1944

Double Indemnity

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.

Movie
The Third Man
7.9
1949

The Third Man

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

Movie
Elevator to the Gallows
7.6
1958

Elevator to the Gallows

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

Movie
Hannibal Rising
6.3
2007

Hannibal Rising

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill.

Movie
The 39 Steps
7.3
1935

The 39 Steps

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.

Movie
Pacific Heights
6.3
1990

Pacific Heights

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.

Movie
White Picket Fence
2024

White Picket Fence

A long term couple sit down for a romantic meal, she is unaware it could be their very last.

Movie
Rappakal
6.7
2005

Rappakal

Saraswathiyamma is the head of a noble family that treats her servant Krishnan as one of her own sons. When her relatives conspire to sell her house, she and Krishnan set out to save it.

Movie
Milk
7.2
2008

Milk

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join him in his fight for equal rights that should be available to all Americans.

Movie
Vanishing Point
7.1
1971

Vanishing Point

Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.

Movie

Recommended Movies

I Confess
7.1
1953

I Confess

When a priest hears a murderer’s confession, he becomes bound by his vow of silence—even as circumstantial evidence turns suspicion toward him. Torn between faith and self-preservation, he faces public scandal and trial for a crime he cannot reveal the truth about.

Movie
The Bling Ring
5.4
2013

The Bling Ring

Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.

Movie
The Philadelphia Story
7.6
1940

The Philadelphia Story

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Movie
Titanic
7.9
1997

Titanic

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

Movie
Joker
8.1
2019

Joker

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Movie
Oppenheimer
8.0
2023

Oppenheimer

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Movie
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
7.4
2019

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

Movie
The Shawshank Redemption
8.7
1994

The Shawshank Redemption

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Movie
Pulp Fiction
8.5
1994

Pulp Fiction

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Movie
Shutter Island
8.2
2010

Shutter Island

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Movie
Ex Machina
7.6
2015

Ex Machina

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

Movie
The Breakfast Club
7.7
1985

The Breakfast Club

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.

Movie
Green Book
8.2
2018

Green Book

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

Movie
Parasite
8.5
2019

Parasite

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Movie
12 Angry Men
8.5
1957

12 Angry Men

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

Movie
Gladiator
8.2
2000

Gladiator

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

Movie
Back to the Future
8.3
1985

Back to the Future

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

Movie
PK
7.7
2014

PK

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laughter and letting go.

Movie
The Truman Show
8.1
1998

The Truman Show

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show.

Movie
The Godfather
8.7
1972

The Godfather

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

Movie