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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 Cinema of Germany, 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 (film industry), 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 film), The Squeaker'' (1931).Bergfelder p.145 Selected filmography Screenwriter * ''The Squeaker (1931 film), The Squeaker'' (dir. Karel Lamač, Martin Frič, 1931) — based on ''The Squeaker (novel), The Squeaker'' by Edgar Wallace * ''The Paw'' (dir. Hans Steinhoff, 1931) ** ''The Man with the Claw'' (dir. Nunzio Malasom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Paw
''The Paw'' () is a 1931 German thriller film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Charlotte Susa, Hans Rehmann, and Fritz Rasp.Bock & Bergfelder p. 384 It was made as a co-production with the Italian Cines Studios. The film's sets were designed by the art director Daniele Crespi. A separate Italian version '' The Man with the Claw'' was also made. Synopsis A notorious criminal and serial killer commits a series of murders using a strangely-shaped hand, leading the police to nickname him "The Paw". When he murders the engineer of a brand new racing car Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. In North America, the term is commonly used to describe all forms of automobile sport including ..., one of the drivers takes the investigation into his own hands. Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1931 films 1930s thriller films Films of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Thorpe
Richard Thorpe (born Rollo Smolt Thorpe; February 24, 1896 – May 1, 1991) was an American film director best known for his long career at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His obituary called him "a capable and versatile director willing to take on any assignment the studio handed him." He said "I just take them on as they come." Thorpe also said "I'm happy to do any kind of picture. If there's a good script I think any director can make a good picture. Actually if it says in the script what you do, I don't see why anybody can't make it." One associate said "“He was a company man, a very pleasant, good-looking, nice, well-behaved guy who took pride in being efficient like some businessman would take pride in the way he ran his bank.” His two favorite films were ''Night Must Fall (1937 film), Night Must Fall'' (1937) and ''Two Girls and a Sailor'' (1944). "They were new and different experiences," said Thorpe. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Thorpe has a star on t ... [...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 La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star Of Valencia (German-language Film)
''The Star of 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 ( , ), formally València (), is the capital of the Province of Valencia, province and Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia (r .... 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 black-and-white films Films ... [...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 Thomy Charles Bourdelle (20 April 1891 – 27 June 1972) was a French actor. Bourdelle was born in Paris and died in Toul ... [...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 Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a populatio .... Selected filmography * '' Joyless Street'' (1925) * '' The Love of Jeanne Ney'' (1927) * '' The Devious Path'' (1928) * '' Westfront 1918'' (1930) * '' ... [...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, filmmaker, screenwriter and 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 '' Quatermass'' serials and their 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's 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 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 did some scripting work for BBC Television in 1939 before the service was suspended at the outbreak of the Second World War. After the war, he occasionally worked for British films before he was again hired by the BBC in 1 ... [...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 Beaux-Arts de Paris, École des Beaux-Arts in the class of the painter Maurice Denis. In 1925 he joined the French subsidiary of the Paramount Pictures, 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 GmbH, 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 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Zeisler
Alfred Zeisler (September 26, 1897 – 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 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Shot At Dawn
''A Shot at Dawn'' () 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 in Potsdam with sets designed by the art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...s 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 Vesperma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
