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The House on 92nd Street Overview:

The House on 92nd Street (1945) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Louis de Rochemont.

Academy Awards 1945 --- Ceremony Number 18 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best WritingCharles G. BoothWon
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The House on 92nd Street (1945)

By Beatrice on Jan 8, 2015 From Flickers in Time

The House on 92nd Street Directed by Henry Hathaway Written by Barré Lyndon, Charles G. Booth, and John Monks Jr. 1945/USA Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation First viewing/YouTube Although billed as a film noir in The Film Noir Guide, this is a pretty straight forward police-procedural wit... Read full article

The House on 92nd Street (1945)

on Mar 29, 2013 From Journeys in Classic Film

The House on 92nd Street is commonly listed as a must-see entry in the film noir canon. I deign it  a perfect example of a period piece in that it’s incredibly dated.  I understand the intent of the semi-documentary style, but the antiquated newsreel format is enough to put audiences to slee... Read full article

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Facts from The House on 92nd Street
The man who is killed by the car near the beginning of the film is based on a real life incident. He was identified as Julio Lopez Lido but was in actuality Capt. Ulrich von der Osten, a Nazi army officer in the Abwehr. He was hit by a car on March 18, 1941 and his body went unclaimed for a time. The man who ran from the scene was actually Kurt Frederick Ludwig, known as Joseph K, a German agent who was eventually caught and sentenced to Alcatraz Island. He was deported in 1953. The cab driver who hit Lido was a man named Sam Lichtman.
The original title of the film was, "Now It Can Be Told".
Lloyd Nolan reprised his role of FBI Agent George A. Briggs in _Street With No Name, The (1948)_.
The "House on 92nd Street" used in the film was actually located on 93rd street. The building has since been demolished.
The film is loosely based on the case of Duquesne Spy Ring headed by Frederick Joubert Duquesne and the work of real life double agent William G. Sebold.
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