The House on Telegraph Hill

The House on Telegraph Hill is a film noir starring Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, and William Lundigan, directed by Robert Wise, and released by Twentieth Century Fox. Parts of the film were filmed on location in the Telegraph Hill area of San Francisco. Exterior filming of the front of the house used studio made sets erected in front of Julius' Castle, 1541 Montgomery Street. It was nominated an Academy Award for Best Art Direction . The film begins in Belsen where Victoria Kowelska reflects on the destruction of her house and family by the Nazis. Her best friend Karin tells her of... her son in America and her life there. Karin dies shortly before liberation and Victoria decides to take her identity . The major interviewing her is at first suspicious, but clearly he is attracted to her. He does not know they will later meet Having found her way to New York she tracks down her family ties to a house in the rich area of San Francisco known as Telegraph Hill. On discussing her background with the family lawyer, Alan Spender, he is at first suspicious but then accepts her as Karin.
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