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SUSPENSE That Makes Every Whisper On The Screen Echo Like Thunder!
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
Dangerously They Live
1941 Directed by Robert Florey
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John Garfield Nancy Coleman Raymond Massey Lee Patrick Moroni Olsen Esther Dale John Ridgely Christian Rub Frank Reicher Ben Welden Cliff Clark Roland Drew Arthur Aylesworth John Harmon Gavin Muir Ilka Grüning Frank M. Thomas James Seay Murray Alper Tod Andrews Leah Baird Sven Hugo Borg Sidney Bracey Leslie Denison Charles Drake Ann Edmonds Sol Gorss Eddie Graham Chuck Hamilton Show All…
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24 Dec 1941
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Dangerously They Live (1941) is a B-level suspense'r with John Garfield helping out Nancy Coleman with her amnesia with some mysterious people turning up claiming to be her family. Coleman did real good in her movie debut. Garfield had some cool spots, but was otherwise uninspiring in this clean-cut role, which was not something you could say very often about his performance. The real basis for the excitement came from the suspicious guys Raymond Massey & Moroni Olsen carrying on their subtle plot to gain information. This is actually a film which could have been pretty great had they wanted it to. Instead it becomes just another programmer without any risks attached to it.
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Very good B-picture! A Nazi spy story set in the US, with plenty of WB back lot street scenes. Raymond Massey makes an exceptional villain. When he's pretending to be a nice guy, he's so convincing, it made me wish he was given more roles where he could actually play nice guys! John Garfield was very good as a likable young doctor, a nice change from all the toughs and bad boys I've seen him play.
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Watched again since BF hadn't seen it. I liked it even better on a second watch. It made me wonder what Hitchcock could have done with this script and a cast of his choosing.
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Very slapdash Garfield war time vehicle. It plays like very lazy Hitchcock minus the setpieces. Director Florey contributes some decent paranoia.
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Solid spy noir with elements of Notorious; when watching, keep in mind at the time it was made we had no idea the full scale of Nazi atrocities.
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Entertaining, but unmemorable spy drama, with too many inconsistencies in story and characterization to be plausible. Needed a more convincing performance from the Nancy Coleman role.
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Never thought I’d see John Garfield wearing scrubs and playing a character named Michael Lewis
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Warner Bros. was producing anti-Nazi films before America entered World War II. As a result, Hitler banned all of the studio's films in Germany. This film started filming in September 1941, three months before the two counties would be at war.
Director Robert Florey keeps the pace lively and brings a Gothic noir sensibility when the action moves to a shadowy mansion. John Garfield gets to play a doctor here, a step up for him at the time. The film is Nancy Coleman's screen debut. Coleman played many leads in B movies, but never quite broke out. Warner Bros. didn't renew her contract in the late '40s. She would return to the stage and guest starring on TV, but pretty much retired to raise her twin girls.
After filming wrapped, Garfield spent the remaining months of 1941 touring military bases in the Caribbean with Laurel and Hardy, Chico Marx and Ray Bolger.
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Warner’s Bros.’ take on the Hitchcockian spy thriller, with a plot revolving around a young woman with amnesia whom a German agent claims is his daughter. Not surprisingly for a studio committed to action and a fast pace, there’s little effort to build up suspense in any of the settings (the hospital, the German agent’s Long Island estate, or a German hideout inside a delicatessen). At least director Robert Florey doesn’t make John Garfield play dumb, just overly cautious. Garfield is good, as usual, but the scene stealers are Moroni Olsen as the pseudo-father and Raymond Massey as a respected doctor who may be in league with the Germans. Ultimately, this is just an entertaining propaganda picture, from the studio that was most committed to sticking it to the Germans in their late-1930s/early-1940s productions.
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John Garfield is an intern who cares for a young accident victim in "Dangerously They Live," also starring Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, and Moroni Olson.
This looks like a B movie and is certainly short enough to have been a second feature. This is what Warners put John Garfield in after he made a big splash in "Four Daughters?" Jack Warner must have been punishing him for something.
The accident victim in this film, Jane Graystone, played by Coleman, is thought to have amnesia. She is actually a spy for the U.S., and the Nazis are after information she has about a convoy in New Zealand.
Moroni Olson poses as her father, a Mr. Goodwin, but she tells Dr. Lewis…
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Doctor John Garfield falls for sexy amnesiac spy Nancy Coleman and ends up battling a gang of snooty 5th column Nazis out to wreck the USA.