Paul Detlefsen

Birth : 1899-10-03, Copenhagen, Denmark

Death : 1986-08-01

Movies

Escape Me Never
Matte Painter
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
The Beast with Five Fingers
Matte Painter
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.
Nobody Lives Forever
Matte Painter
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Shadow of a Woman
Matte Painter
Brooke's marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.
The Big Sleep
Matte Painter
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
Two Guys from Milwaukee
Matte Painter
Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the microphone is live, the two stage a debate on democracy versus monarchy broadcast back to the Prince's homeland. A plebiscite there puts Henry out of a job. Flying to Milwaukee to become a beer salesman, he meets Bacall on the seat next to his, but a tap on his shoulder means he must give up his seat (and dream) to Bogie.
Of Human Bondage
Matte Painter
A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help.
Night and Day
Matte Painter
Swellegant and elegant. Delux and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in 20th-century songwriting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant. Grant stars for the first time in color in this fanciful biopic. Alexis Smith plays Linda, whose serendipitous meetings with Porter lead to a meeting at the alter. More than 20 of his songs grace this tail of triumph and tragedy, with Grant lending is amiable voice to "You're the Top", "Night and Day" and more. Monty Woolley, a Yale contemporary of Porter, portrays himself. And Jane Wyman, Mary Martin, Eve Arden and others provide vocals and verve. Lights down. Curtain up. Showtune standards embraced by generations are yours to enjoy in "Night and Day."
A Stolen Life
Matte Painter
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.
Three Strangers
Matte Painter
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
Too Young to Know
Matte Painter
A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.
Confidential Agent
Matte Painter
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
Mildred Pierce
Matte Painter
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Escape in the Desert
Matte Painter
Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.
Pillow to Post
Matte Painter
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.
The Horn Blows at Midnight
Matte Painter
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
God Is My Co-Pilot
Matte Painter
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.
The Corn Is Green
Matte Painter
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
Hotel Berlin
Matte Painter
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany.
Objective, Burma!
Matte Painter
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.
Roughly Speaking
Matte Painter
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
To Have and Have Not
Matte Painter
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
Hollywood Canteen
Matte Painter
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
The Conspirators
Matte Painter
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
The Very Thought of You
Matte Painter
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Special Effects
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.