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 Scharf. The plot revolves around an oil swindle in a South American country.[2] The film was made in Vienna. The critics were not generally impressed with the film, the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung described it as "unbelievable and unbelievably awful picture".[3]
| Invisible Opponent | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Rudolph Cartier |
| Produced by | Sam Spiegel |
| Written by | Philipp Lothar Mayring Heinrich Oberländer Reinhart Steinbicker Ludwig von Wohl |
| Starring | Gerda Maurus Paul Hartmann Oskar Homolka |
| Music by | Rudolph Schwarz |
| Cinematography | Georg Bruckbauer Eugen Schüfftan |
| Edited by | Rudi Fehr[1] Rudolf Schaad |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Märkische Film (Germany) |
Release date | 18 September 1933 |
Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | Austria Germany |
| Language | German |
A separate French-language version The Oil Sharks was also released.[4]
Cast
- Gerda Maurus as Sybil Herford
- Paul Hartmann as Peter Ugron
- Oskar Homolka as James Godfrey
- Peter Lorre as Henry Pless
- Paul Kemp as Hans Mertens
- Raoul Aslan as J. Delmonte
- Leonard Steckel as Santos
- H. Kyser as Sir Thomas
- Eva Schmid-Kayser as Eva Ugron
- Jaro Fürth
- John Mylong
- Otto Schmöle
- Franke
- Maria Holst
- Josef Rehberger
- Wilhelm Stauffen
- Mihail Xantho
References
- LoBrutto, Vincent (1991). "Rudi Fehr". Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing. ABC-CLIO. p. 29. ISBN 9780275933951.
- Youngkin p.78
- Youngkin p.80
- Youngkin p.466
Bibliography
- Youngkin, Stephen. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
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