Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1932 film)
- Willi Forst: Peter Voss
- Alice Treff: Polly
- Paul Hörbiger: Bobby Dodd
- Ida Wüst: Madame Bianca
- Otto Wernicke: Pitt
- Hans Hermann Schaufuß: Schilling
- Edith d' Amara: Schilling's secretary
- John Roth: Asthmatic Mr.
- Josef Eichheim: Plaschke
- Will Dohm: Host of the night club
- Willi Schaeffer: Arabs
- Gregori Chmara: Pasha
- Luise Werckmeister: Female Sergeant
- Aenne Goerling: singer
- Therese Giehse: Housekeeper
- Kurt Horwitz: 1 broker
- O. E. Hasse: 2 Broker
- Henri Hertsch: 3 brokers
- Erika Mann: 1 guide
- Rudolf Amend: 2 guides
- Fritz Schlenk: Purser
- Reinhold Bernt: Newspaper seller
- Rudolph Anders
- Lewis Brody
- Hans Hermann
- Rose Smoke: singer
- Max Schreck: Karl, a sailor
Peter Voss, who Millionendieb is a German film directed by Ewald André Dupont from the year 1932. He is an adaptation of the novel by Ewald Gerhard Seeliger from 1913, already in 1921 in six parts, under the title The Man Without a name for the movie was adapted. Under the title Peter Voss, the Millionendieb 1946 and 1958 more films and in 1960 published an eight -part radio play.
Action
When the rich Mr. Pitt announces a million figure, threatens the bank Schilling & Co. of collapse. Therefore authorized officer Peter Voss faked a burglary, stolen in the alleged two million mark. He now wants to hide until the stock market shares rise again.
The famous detective Bobby Dodd is charged with the investigation of the case. Accompanied by Polly Pitt, the daughter of millionaire, he sets out to search for Peter Voss. It begins a hunt around the world, with Bobby Dodd and Polly the alleged thief million are often close on their heels, but always manages to escape Voss.
Along the way, Polly falls in love with Peter Voss. On a freighter learns that Madame Bianca and her ballet group know. He accompanies her to Marseille and is active there in a harbor pub as a piano player. In Morocco he finally learns that stock prices have recovered. Bankers Schilling can now bring him the money through sales of securities, which it needs to pay off Pitt. As Dodd finally caught Voss, it turns out that nothing was stolen. Voss comes as a hero with his bride Polly in the homeland and is part owner of Schilling's bank.
Background
The buildings for this Emelka production comes from Willy and Ludwig Reiber. The film had on March 23, 1932 premiere.
Awards
The Board of Film awarded the film with the title " artistic " from.
Reviews
- " ... The many Autorengags and directorial ideas do not fit into a whole. The film is divided into individual anecdotes and Episödchen, with difficulty held together by the automatism of location and change of environment. In sum, Peter Voss, the Millionendieb neither the needs of a dramatic action accented cinema yet where a witty satire is enough. "
- Paul Ickes compared in the film week in a contemporary comment the film with the first film version of 1921, the silent film Six divider The man without a name and came to the conclusion that the silent film work was stronger. He continues: " Of course, such a funny book like that of Peter Voss is still just go on forever; here the implications are obvious if one takes the novel of the author or others who you think is better. And so also achieved because the new Bobby Dodd with Paul Hörbiger a strong success, and with Hörbiger, which is quite wonderful, cancel all other ( Schaufuß, Ida Wüst, Forestry and Schaeffer ) respectable applause. Less well succeed the debut of Alice Treff; but why her dubbing was not recognized and moderated by a director? "
Other adaptations
Radio play version
In 1960, the Bayerischer Rundfunk also an eight -part radio drama under the title Peter Voss, the Millionendieb produced. Under the direction of Heinz -Günter tribe spoke Arno Assmann (Peter Voss ). Ingrid Pan ( Mrs. Polly Voss ) and Günter Pfitzmann (Bobby Dodd, private investigator ) the lead roles. Other speakers included, among others, Fritz Rasp, Konrad Georg, Horst Tappert, Klaus Havenstein and Hans Nielsen.