''The Fourth from the Right'' (German: ''Die vierte von rechts'') is a 1929 German silent

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directed by

Conrad Wiene Conrad Wiene (3 February 1878 – after May 1934) was an actor, screenwriter, film producer and director of Austrian and German silent films. He was the younger brother of German film director Robert Wiene. Biography Conrad Wiene was born ...

and starring

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Betty Bird Betty Bird (born Hilde Elisabeth Ptack, 18 June 1901 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 4 March 1998 in Rome, Italy) was an Austrian actress known for ''Die spanische Fliege'' (1931), ''Corazones sin rumbo'' (1928) and ''Sturm auf drei Herzen'' (19 ...

and

Arthur Pusey Arthur Pusey (July 1896 – 1965) was a British stage and film actor. He was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, and died in London. Selected filmography * '' The Barton Mystery'' (1920) * ''The Bachelor's Club'' (1921) * '' The Other Person'' ...

.Habel p.197 The film's sets were designed by the

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. It was released by the German subsidiary of

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Cast

as Josyane *

as Betty *

as Lord Douglas Blandford *

Adolphe Engers Adolphe Engers (1884–1945) was a Dutch writer and actor on stage and in the movies, who appeared in more than fifty films during his career, a number of them in Weimar Germany. Biography Before his career in film, he was an actor on the stage a ...

as Bob Murphy *

Albert Paulig Albert Paulig (14 January 1873 – 19 March 1933) was a German film actor who was popular during the silent era. Paulig made his first film in 1914. The following year he appeared in one of Ernst Lubitsch's first directorial attempts, '' A Trip on ...

Gustav Püttjer Gustav Püttjer (15 May 1886 – 11 August 1959) was a German film actor who appeared in around 150 feature films between 1927 and 1959. He largely played character parts. After the Second World War he settled in East Germany appearing in the fil ...

Fritz Spira Fritz Spira (1 August 1881 – c. 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actor. He appeared frequently in films during the silent and early sound eras. Spira played the role of the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef in the 1926 film ''The Third Squadro ...

Mathilde Sussin Mathilde Sussin (21 September 1876 – 2 August 1943) was an Austrian actress. Sussin was born in Vienna into a Jewish family and died in 1943 at Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Selected filmography * '' The Black Tulip Fe ...

Otto Wallburg Otto Wallburg (21 February 1889 – 29 October 1944) was a German actor and Kabarett performer. He was a prolific film actor during the late silent and early sound era. Wallburg was born Otto Maximilian Wasserzug in Berlin, the son of a Jewish ...

References

Bibliography

* Frank-Burkhard Habel. ''Verrückt vor Begehren.: Die Filmdiven aus der Stummfilmzeit. Ein leidenschaftlicher Blick zurück in die Zeit der ersten Stars.''. Schwarzkopf und Schwarzkopf, 1999.

External links

* 1929 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Conrad Wiene German silent feature films German black-and-white films German comedy films 1929 comedy films Silent comedy films 1920s German films {{Germany-silent-film-stub