The Missing Wife
| The Missing Wife | |
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| Directed by | Karl Leiter |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Eduard von Borsody |
Production company | Österreichische Film |
| Distributed by | Hegewald Film (Germany) |
Release date | 23 January 1929 |
| Country | Austria |
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The Missing Wife (German:Die verschwundene Frau) is a 1929 Austrian silent film comedy crime film directed by Karl Leiter and starring Harry Halm, and Mary Kid. The sets were designed by the art director Hans Ledersteger.
The film is notable for marking the screen debut of Peter Lorre. The film was believed lost until 1984. It wasn't until it was restored in 1996 that Lorre's small role was noted. Lorre had never spoken about the film and always maintained that M (1931) was his first film, which was a breakthrough role as opposed to a brief, uncredited cameo.[1]
Cast[]
- Harry Halm as Adam Bertram
- as Eva
- Mary Kid as Dr. Med. Hanna Karsten
- as Dr. Fritz Steiner
- Reinhold Häussermann as Polizeirat Alois Hartl
- as Tobias Ameisel
- Albert Kersten
- Clementine Plessner
- Peter Lorre as Patient of a Dentist
References[]
- ^ Youngkin pp. 37–38
Bibliography[]
- Youngkin, Stephen. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
External links[]
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- 1929 films
- Austrian films
- Austrian silent feature films
- Austrian crime comedy films
- 1920s rediscovered films
- 1920s crime comedy films
- Austrian black-and-white films
- Rediscovered Austrian films
- Austrian film stubs