Paul Graetz
Actor · 1890 – 1937 · Glogów, Poland
Paul Graetz was German-born comedian and actor of Jewish ancestry. He was born in Glogau, Schlesia (today Głogów in Poland) in 1890, and was very active on stage and in German cinema from 1911 to 1932. When the Nazis came to power in February 1933, he fled to the United Kingdom, where he learned English and had roles in several films. He continued to Hollywood at the end of 1935, where he only had a couple of roles in B movies before dying in 1937 at the age of 46.
Movies24
Movie5.6MysteryCrimeWhen actress Mary Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague's murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
Mary
1931 · 31 votes
Movie7.5ComedyDramaA charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
Movie5.7DramaHistoryA historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of life in the 18th-century Jewish ghetto of Württemberg. Süss works himself out of the ghetto and into a position of power with the help of an evil duke.
Jew Süss
1934 · 7 votes
Movie6.7ComedyThrillerWhile filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.
Bulldog Jack
1935 · 7 votes
Movie7.0The House on the Moon
Movie8.2DramaStruggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, and Alexandra Schmitt. The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter. Based on a novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938.
Movie5.4AdventureDramaAn island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.
Isle of Fury
1936 · 15 votes
Movie7.0DramaAdapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
Red Wagon
1933 · 1 votes
Movie5.1ComedyAdventureA young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.
Movie5.6DramaHistoryFrom the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain.
Movie6.5DramaWarTwo of Germany's best and busiest directors collaborated on Berge in Flammen (Mountain in Flames). The storyline should be of interest to pro-ecologists, inasmuch as the directors take to task the warmongers of the world for despoiling the natural beauties of the European mountain ranges with their shell-fire. The final outrage occurs during a battle between the Austrians and the Italians in the Dolomites, culminating with the destruction of an entire mountain (hence the film's title). The harrowing images on screen were complemented perfectly by the musical score of Giuseppe Beece. Also known as The Doomed Batallion, Berge in Flammen was filmed in three different languages -- German, English, French -- for a total cost of $150,000.
Movie6.1AdventureDramaThe favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
Sumurun
1920 · 32 votes
Movie7.1DramaOld Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
1935 · 4 votes
- Movie7.5DramaMystery
Deep in the forest lives the bitter Dr. Wislizenus, whose childhood sweetheart Maria committed suicide ten years ago. The visit of a childhood friend, he who wrote a poem about Mary, triggers a tragedy.
Dr. Wislizenus
1924 · 2 votes
Movie4.8ActionAdventureAfter causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.
Bengal Tiger
1936 · 6 votes
Movie9.0CrimeA professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo to try it out. When he turns up murdered and his "system" missing, a reporter sets out to find the killer--and the system.
Movie5.8DramaRomanceA struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
Mimi
1935 · 5 votes
Movie9.0Richard Tauber, the great Austrian tenor, features in the story of a singing peasant from a Vienna beer-garden who conquers London, but at a cost...
Heart's Desire
1935 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedySteffi is in love with the unemployed musician Pepi. Still, her father the musical instrument retailer, Ignaz Korn, wants her to marry one of his card playing buddies, the butcher Burgstaller. When the typesetter, Cäsar Grün, purposely misprints a winning lottery number in the newspaper, Korn and Burgstaller, thinking they have won, pay the drinks for everybody in the Bock Café and then give away their businesses.
Movie7.0ComedySalesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
Hot Money
1936 · 2 votes
MovieDramaA nobleman wishes to help the woman he had seduced and abandoned years earlier when he learns that she is now on trial for murder.
Movie8.0a silent movie by Heinz Paul
Die Warenhausprinzessin
1926 · 1 votes
Movie5.6RomanceMusicWorld-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter.
Blossom Time
1934 · 5 votes
- Movie7.0