I Was Jack Mortimer
I Was Jack Mortimer | |
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Directed by | Carl Froelich |
Written by | |
Based on | I Was Jack Mortimer by Alexander Lernet-Holenia |
Produced by | Carl Froelich |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Reimar Kuntze |
Edited by | Gustav Lohse |
Music by | Harald Böhmelt |
Production company | Carl Froelich-Film |
Distributed by | Tobis Film |
Release date | 17 October 1935 |
Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
I Was Jack Mortimer (German: Ich war Jack Mortimer) is a 1935 German thriller film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Anton Walbrook, Eugen Klöpfer, and Sybille Schmitz.[1] It is an adaptation of the 1933 novel of the same title by Alexander Lernet-Holenia.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter.
Cast[]
- Anton Walbrook as Ferdinand 'Fred' Sponer, a Budapest taxi-driver
- Eugen Klöpfer as Pedro Montemayor, a conductor
- Sybille Schmitz as Winifred Montemayor, Pedro's wife
- Marieluise Claudius as Marie Polikow
- Max Gülstorff as Colonel Polikow, Marie's father
- Maria Loja as Mrs. Polikow, Marie's mother
- Hilde Hildebrand as Daisy
- Heinz Salfner as Andrassy, Daisy's friend
- as Doering, a taxi-driver
- as Jack Mortimer
- Erich Fiedler
- Manfred Meurer
- Josef Reithofer
- Albert von Kersten
- Michael von Newlinsky
See also[]
- Adventure in Vienna (1952)
- Stolen Identity (1953)
References[]
- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p. 138
Bibliography[]
- Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
External links[]
Categories:
- German-language films
- 1935 films
- German films
- Films of Nazi Germany
- German thriller films
- 1930s thriller films
- Films directed by Carl Froelich
- Films based on Austrian novels
- Films about identity theft
- Tobis Film films
- German black-and-white films
- Films about taxis
- 1930s German film stubs
- 1930s thriller film stubs