I Was Jack Mortimer (1935)
Ich war Jack Mortimer
The jealous star conductor Montemayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating on him with an American named Jack Mortimer. After the concert rehearsal, he takes a taxi to the train station, sees Mortimer and shoots him at an intersection from the backseat of his taxi. The shot is not heard during the traffic noise. The taxi driver, Sponer, sitting in his car with the now-dead Mortimer, goes into a panic.
- Date of release
- 1935-10-16
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Director
- Carl Froelich
Casting
- Anton Walbrook — Ferdinand 'Fred' Sponer
- Eugen Klöpfer — Pedro Montemayor
- Sybille Schmitz — Winifred Montemayor
- Marieluise Claudius — Marie Polikow
- Hilde Hildebrand — Daisy
- Max Gülstorff — Colonel Polikow, Marie's father
- Maria Loja — Mrs. Polikow, Marie's mother
- Heinz Salfner — Andrassy, Daisy's friend
- Jochen Hauer — Doering, a taxi-driver
- Georg A. Profé — Jack Mortimer
- Hugo Drahower
- Sophie Eschenbach
Interesting facts
I Was Jack Mortimer is a 1935 German thriller film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Anton Walbrook, Eugen Klöpfer, and Sybille Schmitz. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter. It is an adaptation of the 1933 novel of the same title by Alexander Lernet-Holenia.
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