Whitechapel (film)

• Hans Mierendorff: Fred Hopkins
• Grit Hegesa: Whore Rachel
• Carl Clewing: Lord Cecil Reading
• Marga Kierska: Readings fiancee
• Otto fee: Baronet Harry Reading, cousin
• Marie Lu Jürgens: Mintje, service man
• Guido Herzfeld: publican Feibel
• Hermann Wlach: Jac, the "Apache", called the " Baron"
• Henry Bender: Sound, the " reindeer "
• Carl Geppert: Will, the "candidate "
• Fritz Schulz: David, Street Vendors
• Leo Connard: John Crawford, jeweler
• Ferry Sikla: Blocker, jeweler
• Adolf Edgar Licho: van Zuider, jeweler
• Rudolf Lettinger: Commissioner
• Julia Serda

Whitechapel. A string of pearls and adventures ( Alternative title: The city of the disinherited ) is a German crime film of 1920.

Action

Fred Hopkins, a jeweler 's assistant, replaces the pearl necklace that has acquired Lord Reading as a wedding gift by a worthless imitation. It begins a hunt that can end the flower seller Rachel and the jumping jack dealer David by finding the trinkets. Hopkins, who is transferred, then commits for fear of punishment by means of poison suicide.

Background

Production company was the Gloria -Film GmbH Berlin. Max Jungk and Julius Urgiss written as Screenplay templates from London police files. For the buildings Heinrich Richter was responsible.

The film had a length of six acts to 2,271 meters ( according to section: 2.255 meters ), equivalent to approximately 111 ( according to section: about 110 minutes). The kingdom of film censorship took him on 30 August 1920, a youth ban (No. 356). The premiere took place in Tauentzienpalast and in the Mozart Hall Berlin on 30 September 1920.