''The Oil Sharks'' (french: Les requins du pétrole) is a 1933 German
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
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, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exc ...
and
Henri Decoin and starring
Arlette Marchal,
Vivian Grey and
Gabriel Gabrio.
[Youngkin p. 466] It is the
French-language version of ''
Invisible Opponent
''Invisible Opponent'' (German: ''Unsichtbare Gegner'') is a 1933 German-Austrian drama film directed by Rudolph Cartier and starring Gerda Maurus, Paul Hartmann, and Oskar Homolka. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erwin S ...
'', made with the same crew but a largely different cast and some alterations to the story line. The sets for both films were designed by the
art director Erwin Scharf.
Cast
In alphabetical order
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Raoul Aslan
Raoul Aslan ( hy, Ռաուլ Ասլան, born Tigran Aslanyan, Armenian: Տիգրան Ասլանյան; 16 October 1886 – 17 June 1958) was an Austrian theater actor of Greek-Armenian ancestry.
Life
Born in Saloniki, Ottoman Empire (now in ...
as Delmonde
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Raymond Cordy as Hans Mertens
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Gabriel Gabrio as James Godfrey
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Jean Galland
Jean Galland (1887–1967) was a French film actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Fantômas'' (1932)
* ''The Oil Sharks'' (1933)
* ''The Barber of Seville'' (1933)
* '' The Scandal'' (1934)
* '' Princesse Tam Tam'' (1935)
* ''Whirlpool of Desire'' (1 ...
as Pierre Ugron
* Vivian Grey as Eve Ugron
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Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre (; born László Löwenstein, ; June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian and American actor, first in Europe and later in the United States. He began his stage career in Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before movin ...
as Henry Pless
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Arlette Marchal as Jeannette
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Robert Ozanne as Santos
References
Bibliography
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External links
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1933 films
German drama films
1933 drama films
1930s French-language films
Films directed by Rudolph Cartier
Films directed by Henri Decoin
Films set in South America
German multilingual films
Films about con artists
German black-and-white films
1933 multilingual films
1930s German films
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