I Was Jack Mortimer (1935)
1h 25m
Running Time
October 16, 1935Release Date
I Was Jack Mortimer (1935)
1h 25m
Running Time
October 16, 1935Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Adolf Wohlbrück
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
Harald Böhmelt
Composer
Reimar Kuntze
Cinematographer
Gustav Lohse
Editor
Carl Froelich
Director
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Novel
Details.
Release DateOctober 16, 1935
Original NameIch war Jack Mortimer
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 25m
Genres
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Wiki.
I Was Jack Mortimer (German: Ich war 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.