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Otto Eis
Otto Eis (1903–1952) was an Austrian-born writer who worked on a number of screenplays. He was born Otto Eisler to a Jewish family in Budapest which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He later moved to Germany, where he was employed in the German film industry. Following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, he moved to Austria, but had to flee again to France following the Anchluss. Eis later moved to the United States, but struggled to secure work in Hollywood although he wrote scripts for a handful of B pictures. Eis was the brother of Egon Eis with whom he co-wrote the screenplay for '' The Squeaker'' (1931).Bergfelder p.145 Selected filmography Screenwriter * '' The Squeaker'' (dir. Karel Lamač, Martin Frič, 1931) — based on '' The Squeaker'' by Edgar Wallace * '' The Paw'' (dir. Hans Steinhoff, 1931) ** ''The Man with the Claw'' (dir. Nunzio Malasomma, 1931) * '' A Shot at Dawn'' (dir. Alfred Zeisler, 1932) — based on a play by Harry Jenkins ** ' (dir. Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a city and county, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,303,786; it is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia. The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. Re-established Buda became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. The Battle of Mohács, in 1526, was followed by nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule. After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Wallace
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and the '' Daily Mail''. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including '' The Four Just Men'' (1905). Drawing on his time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines such as ''The Windsor Magazine'' and later published collections such as ''Sanders of the River'' (1911). He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author. After an unsuccessful bid to stand as Liberal MP for Blackpool (as one of David Lloyd George's Independent Liberals) in the 1931 general election, Wallace moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Jack (film)
''Big Jack'' is a 1949 American Western film starring Wallace Beery, Richard Conte and Marjorie Main. The movie was directed by Richard Thorpe, and the screenplay was written by Gene Fowler and Otto Eis from the novel by Robert Thoeren. The picture is a comedy-drama, set on the American frontier in the early 1800s, about outlaws who befriend a young doctor in legal trouble for acquiring corpses for anatomical research. This was Wallace Beery's final film, believed to be his 230th. He died on April 15, 1949 at age 64, three days after this movie's release. Also the final film to have a musical score by Herbert Stothart, who had died two months before the film's release. Plot Cast * Wallace Beery as Big Jack Horner * Richard Conte as Dr. Alexander Meade * Marjorie Main as Flapjack Kate * Edward Arnold as Mayor Mahoney * Vanessa Brown as Patricia Mahoney * Clinton Sundberg as C. Petronius Smith * Charles Dingle as Mathias Taylor * Clem Bevans as Saltlick Joe * Jack Lambert as B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star Of Valencia (German-language Film)
''The Star of Valencia'' (german: Der Stern von Valencia) is a 1933 German drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Liane Haid, Peter Erkelenz and Ossi Oswalda. It was made in Mallorca, at the same time as a French-language version '' The Star of Valencia'' directed by Serge de Poligny. It was made at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Hunte. Location shooting took place in Mallorca and Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, Valencia and the Municipalities of Spain, third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is .... Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1933 films Films of the Weimar Republic 1933 drama films 1930s German-language films Films directed by Alfred Zeisler German multilingual films UFA GmbH films Films shot in Spain Films set in Spain German bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star Of Valencia (French-language Film)
''The Star of Valencia'' (French: ''L'étoile de Valencia'') is a 1933 drama film directed by Serge de Poligny and starring Brigitte Helm, Jean Gabin and Simone Simon. It was the French-language version of the German film '' The Star of Valencia''.Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema, 1928-1936 p.287 Such multi-language versions were common in the era before dubbing became widespread. While made by largely the same crew except the director, it features a completely different cast. It was produced by UFA at the Babelsberg Studios, and distributed by the company's French subsidiary L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne. The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Hunte. It incorporated footage shot on location in Mallorca from the German film. Cast * Brigitte Helm as Marion Savedra * Jean Gabin as Pedro Savedra * Thomy Bourdelle as Le capitaine Mendoza * Simone Simon as Rita * Raymond Aimos as Un matelot * Joe Alex as Diego * Paul Amiot as Le capitaine Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Sorkin
Marc Sorkin or Mark Sorkin (1902–1986) was a Russian-born film editor and director.Rentschler p.277 He worked with Georg Wilhelm Pabst on a number of films as editor or assistant director. He was born in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius which was then part of the Russian Empire. He began working in the German film industry in Berlin in the 1920s. Following the Nazi Party's takeover of power in 1933, the Jewish Sorkin left for France where he worked in that country's cinema industry. After the Invasion of France by the Germans in 1940 he left for the United States via Casablanca. Selected filmography * '' Joyless Street'' (1925) * '' The Love of Jeanne Ney'' (1927) * '' The Devious Path'' (1928) * '' Westfront 1918'' (1930) * '' Morals at Midnight'' (1930) * ''Scandalous Eva'' (1930) * ''Mountains on Fire'' (1931) * '' Kameradschaft'' (1931) * ''The Five Accursed Gentlemen'' (1932) * '' Teilnehmer antwortet nicht'' (co-director: Rudolph Cartier, 1932) * '' Three on a Honeymoon'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolph Cartier
Rudolph Cartier (born Rudolph Kacser, renamed himself in Germany to Rudolph Katscher; 17 April 1904 – 7 June 1994) was an Austrian television director, Filmmaking, filmmaker, screenwriter and Film producer, producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC. He is best known for his 1950s collaborations with screenwriter Nigel Kneale, most notably the ''Bernard Quatermass, Quatermass'' serials and Nineteen Eighty-Four (UK TV programme), their 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's utopian and dystopian fiction, dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''. After studying architecture and then drama, Cartier began his career as a screenwriter and then film director in Berlin, working for Universum Film AG, UFA Studios. After a brief spell in the United States he moved to the United Kingdom in 1935. Initially failing to gain a foothold in the British film industry, he began working for BBC Television in the late 1930s (among other productions he was involve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge De Poligny
Serge de Poligny (1903–1983) was a French screenwriter and film director. Career Serge de Poligny was born in Paris in 1903. He studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts in the class of the painter Maurice Denis. In 1925 he joined the French subsidiary of the Paramount film company as a set-designer and painter, and soon took on the role of an assistant director. With the arrival of sound films, he took a job with UFA studios in Germany, supervising the French-language versions of films which were made in parallel with their German originals.Serge de Poligny at ''Ciné-Ressources''. Retrieved 29 August 2022 Archived at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
A Shot At Dawn
''A Shot at Dawn'' (German: ''Schuß im Morgengrauen'') is a 1932 German crime film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Ery Bos, Genia Nikolaieva and Karl Ludwig Diehl. It was based on the play ''The Woman and the Emerald'' by Harry Jenkins and recounts a jewel theft.Youngkin p.72-73 It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios with sets designed by the art directors Willi Herrmann and Herbert O. Phillips. A separate French-language version ''Coup de feu à l'aube'' was also produced. Cast * Ery Bos as Irene Taft * Genia Nikolajewa as Lola * Karl Ludwig Diehl as Petersen * Theodor Loos as Bachmann * Fritz Odemar as Dr. Sandegg * Peter Lorre as Klotz * Heinz Salfner as Joachim Taft * Gerhard Tandar as Müller IV * Kurt Vespermann as Bobby * Ernst Behmer as Gas Station Attendant * Curt Lucas as Holzknecht * Hermann Speelmans Hermann Speelmans (14 August 1906 – 9 February 1960) was a German stage and film actor.Capua p. 120 Selected filmography * ''Her Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunzio Malasomma
Nunzio Malasomma (4 February 1894 – 12 January 1974) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 41 films between 1923 and 1968. Selected filmography * '' Mister Radio'' (1924) * '' Orient'' (1924) * '' The Doll Queen'' (1925) * '' One Minute to Twelve'' (1925) * '' The King and the Girl'' (1925) * '' Hunted People'' (1926) * ''Struggle for the Matterhorn'' (1928) * '' The Call of the North'' (1929) * ''The Son of the White Mountain'' (1930) * ''The Man with the Claw'' (1931) * ''The Opera Singer'' (1932) * '' The Telephone Operator'' (1932) * '' The Blind Woman of Sorrento'' (1934) * ''Territorial Militia'' (1935) * '' I Don't Know You Anymore'' (1936) * '' The Two Sergeants'' (1936) * ''Red Orchids'' (1938) * '' The Night of Decision'' (1938) *''The Secret Lie'' (1938) * '' Woman Without a Past'' (1939) * ''Then We'll Get a Divorce'' (1940) * ''Scampolo'' (1941) * '' Torrents of Spring'' (1942) * '' The White Devil'' (1947) * ''The Devil in the Convent ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
