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Alfred Zeisler
Alfred Zeisler (September 26, 1892 – March 1, 1985) was an American-born German film producer, director, actor and screenwriter. He produced 29 films between 1927 and 1936. He also directed 16 films between 1924 and 1949. Selected filmography *''Rivals'' (1923) * ''The Last Battle'' (1923) * '' Docks of Hamburg'' (1928) * ''Guilty'' (1928) * ''Sajenko the Soviet'' (1928) * '' Under Suspicion'' (1928) * '' The League of Three'' (1929) * ''High Treason'' (1929) * ''The Smuggler's Bride of Mallorca'' (1929) * ''Scandal in Baden-Baden'' (1929) * ''The Tiger Murder Case'' (1930) * '' Express 13'' (1931) * '' A Shot at Dawn'' (1932) * ''Spoiling the Game'' (1932) * '' The Country Schoolmaster'' (1933) * '' The Star of Valencia'' (1933 – director) * ''Viktor und Viktoria'' (1933) * '' A Door Opens'' (1933) * ''George and Georgette'' (1934) * ''Gold'' (1934) * ''Love and the First Railway'' (1934) * '' Holiday From Myself'' (1934) * ''The Young Count'' (1935) * ''Punks Arrives f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area_tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Country Schoolmaster (1933 Film)
''The Country Schoolmaster'' or ''Country Schoolmaster Uwe Karsten'' (german: Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Carl Heinz Wolff and starring Hans Schlenck, Marianne Hoppe and Heinrich Heilinger.Williams p. 150 It was remade in 1954. The film's art direction was by Otto Hunte and Willy Schiller. Cast * Hans Schlenck as Uwe Karsten Alslew, der Dorfschulmeister * Marianne Hoppe as Ursula Diewen * Heinrich Heilinger as Heinrich Heinsius * Brigitte Horney as Martha Detlefsen * Olga Tschechowa as Teresa van der Straaten * Walter Steinbeck as Ernst Diewen, Handelsherr * Carl Auen as Pastor Sunneby * Günther Ballier as Klaus Sundewitt, Hilfslehrer * Jeanette Bethge as Frau Anslew, Uwe Karstens Mutter * Eberhard Leithoff as Ludwig Diewen, der Sohn * Ernst Behmer as Krüger, ein Winkelbankier * Paul Henckels as Professor Sieveking * Maria Karsten as Frau Sundewitt * Paul Moleska as Ein Bauer * Ernst Hieber * Wolfgang Lohmeyer * Petra Unke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fear (1946 Film)
''Fear'' is a 1946 low-budget film noir directed by Alfred Zeisler and produced by Monogram Pictures. The film loosely follows the main plot of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel ''Crime and Punishment'', without attribution. Plot Larry Crain (Peter Cookson), a medical student on a scholarship, learns that all student scholarships, including his, have been cancelled by his school. Desperately short of cash and overdue on paying his rent, Crain goes to the apartment of Professor Stanley (Francis Pierlot), a teacher who has a sideline as a pawnbroker, though Crain is already in debt to him too. Crain pawns his father's watch for a small amount of money, but notes details in the professor's apartment, including the strong box and wall safe where he keeps his money and a heavy fireplace poker. A bit later at a diner, Crain meets a young woman ( Anne Gynne) who doesn't have cash to pay for her coffee. Crain covers her bill, and she promises to pay him back. However, when Crain receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Make-Up (1937 Film)
''Make-Up'' is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.Wood p.91 Plot Born in a circus, Bux (Nils Asther) hankers after life there, but is pressurised by his family to study to become a surgeon. However, the lure of the Big Top proves too strong, and he abandons his medical career for a life as a circus clown. His clinical expertise comes in handy when attending the injuries of a young woman knocked down by an elephant, and romance beckons. Cast * Nils Asther as Bux * June Clyde as Joy * Judy Kelly as Marien Hutton * Lawrence Grossmith as Sir Edward Hutton * Jill Craigie as Tania * Kenne Duncan as Lorenzo * Lawrence Anderson as Goro * Roddy Hughes as Mr. Greenswarter * Johnnie Schofield as Publicity Man * John Turnbull as Karo * Norma Varden as Hostess * Billy Wells William Thomas Wells, better known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Amazing Quest Of Ernest Bliss
''The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss'' is a 1936 British romantic comedy film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Cary Grant. It is a remake of the 1920 film '' The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss'', based on ''The Curious Quest'', a 1919 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The film was issued in the United States in 1937 under the title ''The Amazing Adventure'' (and subsequently ''Romance and Riches''), but edited down to 62 minutes from the reputed original UK running time of 80 minutes. All currently circulating copies are of the US edit, but the British Film Institute has several archive prints of 77 minutes in length. The film is often believed to be in the public domain and appears on many budget VHS and DVD releases, but as director Alfred Zeisler did not die until 1985, UK copyright subsists until the end of 2055. As a non-US film still under copyright in its country of origin on 1 January 1996, it is protected in the US for 95 years after publication, so to the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Over London
''Crime Over London'' is a 1936 British crime film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Margot Grahame, Paul Cavanagh and David Burns. It was made at Isleworth Studios,Wood p.89 based on the novel ''House of a Thousand Windows'' by Ludwig von Wohl. The film's sets were designed by art director Edward Carrick. Plot With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store. Main cast * Margot Grahame as Pearl - Gang-Moll * Paul Cavanagh as Inspector Gary * David Burns as Sniffy * Joseph Cawthorn as Mr. Sherwood / Reilly * Basil Sydney as 'Joker' Finnigan * Rene Ray as Joan * Bruce Lester as Ronald Martin * Edmon Ryan as Spider * John Darrow as Jim * Danny Green as Klemm * Googie Withers as Miss Dupres * Roland Culver as Soap Salesman * Torin Thatcher Torin Herbert Erskine Thatcher (15 January 1905 – 4 March 1981) was a British actor who was noted for his flashy po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punks Arrives From America
''Punks Arrives from America'' (German: ''Punks kommt aus Amerika'') is a 1935 German comedy film directed by Karl Heinz Martin and starring Attila Hörbiger, Lien Deyers, Ralph Arthur Roberts and Sybille Schmitz. Produced and distributed by UFA, it was made at the company's Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Guelstorff. Location shooting took place around Hamburg. Along with '' Fresh Wind from Canada'' it was one of several seemingly innocuous comedies released that supported the Nazi Party's Heim ins Reich policy.Rentschler p.76 Synopsis A German citizen who has been away in the United States, and has becomes Americanised and acquired the nickname of "punks" returns home after some bad fortune. He manages to eventually overcome his family and former friends' bad opinion of him by rescuing his uncle's business from a robbery. Cast * Attila Hörbiger as Werner 'Punks' Holzhausen * Lien Deyers as Marlis * Ralph Arthur Robe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Young Count
''The Young Count'' (German: ''Der junge Graf'') is a 1935 Czech-German comedy film directed by Carl Lamac and starring Anny Ondra, Hans Söhnker and Fritz Odemar. It is set around the circus,Bock & Bergfelder, p. 272 part of a subgenre of Circus films. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Wilhelm Depenau and Erich Zander Erich Zander (11 April 1905 – 15 April 1991) was a German field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he was a member of the German field hockey team, which won the bronze medal .... Cast References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. * Klaus, Ulrich J. ''Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1935''. Klaus-Archiv, 1988. External links * 1935 films 1935 comedy films German comedy films Films of Nazi Germany 1930s German-languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holiday From Myself (1934 Film)
''Holiday From Myself'' (german: Ferien vom Ich) is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Hermann Speelmans, Carola Höhn, and Georg H. Schnell. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Hans Kuhnert. It was partly shot on location in Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 .... Deppe himself directed a remake of the film in 1952. Plot A stressed American millionaire is advised by his Doctor to take a rest cure in the German countryside. The tycoon is so impressed that he buys an estate and turns it into a resort where other businessmen can take holidays from their normal lives. In the process he falls in love with the estate's former owner. Cast References External links * 1934 comedy films Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And The First Railway
''Love and the First Railway'' (german: Die Liebe und die erste Eisenbahn) is a 1934 German historical comedy film directed by Robert Neppach and starring Jakob Tiedtke, Ida Wüst, and Karin Hardt. The plot revolves around the construction of the railway line between Berlin and Potsdam in the 1830s, the first in the Kingdom of Prussia. The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Guelstorff Otto Guelstorff (1878 1959) was a German art director.Fox p. 257 He worked on around fifty films during his career. Selected filmography * ''Hell of Love'' (1926) * '' Silence in the Forest'' (1929) * '' Rustle of Spring'' (1929) * '' Heilige .... Main cast References Bibliography * * External links * 1934 films 1930s historical comedy films Films of Nazi Germany German historical comedy films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Robert Neppach UFA GmbH films Films set in Berlin Films set in the 1830s Rail transport films German black-and-wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold (1934 Film)
''Gold'' is a 1934 German science fiction film directed by Karl Hartl. The film involves a British scientist who is attempting to create a device that turns base materials into gold. He later forces the German scientist's assistant Werner Holk (Hans Albers), who was working on a similar experiment, to come to his underwater nuclear reactor to help him. ''Gold'' was made in both German-language and French-language versions with Brigitte Helm reprising her role in both. Plot A German scientist has discovered a theoretical means of transforming lead into gold. Working with his engineer Werner Holk (Hans Albers), he is literally moments from proving his theory when the lab is blown up by a saboteur. Holk is then hired by the British capitalist who ordered the sabotage and goes to Scotland to see his friend's work recreated on a massive scale in a secret laboratory beneath the North Sea. Swearing revenge, he agrees to help the millionaire and even fraudulently "creates" a bit of gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George And Georgette
''George and Georgette'' (French: ''Georges et Georgette'') is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Roger Le Bon and Reinhold Schünzel and starring Julien Carette, Meg Lemonnier and Anton Walbrook. It is the French-language version of the film '' Victor and Victoria''.Prawer p.193 A woman pretends to be a male female impersonator and enjoys great success on the stage, but has trouble concealing her secret when she falls in love. Cast * Julien Carette as Georges * Meg Lemonnier as Suzanne * Anton Walbrook as Robert * Jenny Burnay as Elinore * Paulette Dubost as Lilian * Félix Oudart as Pokerdass * Charles Redgie Charles Redgie was a French-based film actor who appeared in thirty six productions between 1930 and 1939.Goble p.385 He starred in the French-language film ''Captain Craddock'' (1931) and its English-language version '' Monte Carlo Madness'' (1932 ... as Douglas References Bibliography * External links * 1934 films German comedy films 1930s F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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