Paul Graetz
Oyuncu · 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.
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FilmDramTarihEnglish-language, dubbed sound and partly re-edited version of Der Kampf ums Matterhorn. During an early, unsuccessful attempt at climbing the Matterhorn, Edward Whymper finds himself rescued by an italian guide, Jean Antoine Carrel. The two men quickly build a friendship and agree to reach the peak together. However, local villagers plot to divide the alliance of Whymper and Carrel and both men join rival teams as they set out in a race to conquer the mountain. A mountaineering drama based on the novel by Carl Haensel and inspired in the dramatic true story of Edward Whymper, who led the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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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
Film5.6DramTarihFrom 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.
Film5.4MaceraDramAn island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.
Isle of Fury
1936 · 15 votes
Film7.1DramOld 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
Film7.0The House on the Moon
Film7.5KomediDramA 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.
Film5.7DramTarihA 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
Film7.0KomediSteffi 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.
Film6.7KomediGerilimWhile 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
Film9.0SuçA 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.
Film8.2DramStruggle 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.
Film5.6GizemSuçWhen 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
FilmDramA nobleman wishes to help the woman he had seduced and abandoned years earlier when he learns that she is now on trial for murder.
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A dramatization of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
Film5.8DramRomantikA struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
Mimi
1935 · 5 votes
Film6.1MaceraDramThe 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
Film7.0DramAdapted 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
Film9.0Richard 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
Film5.6RomantikMüzikWorld-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
Film5.3DramGizemA doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier stars as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who sets out to uncover the secret of five empty coffins and catch the villainous swine responsible for such depravities.
The Scotland Yard Mystery
1934 · 5 votes
Film5.1KomediMaceraA young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.