Colonial scandal
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Colonial scandal / love while intoxicated |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1927 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Jacoby |
| script | Alfred Schirokauer |
| production | Georg Jacoby for Universal Pictures (Berlin) |
| music | Pasquale Ferris |
| camera |
Emil Schünemann Karl Vass |
| occupation | |
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Colonial Scandal , also listed under Love in Intoxication , is a German marriage and relationship drama set in China from 1926/27 by Georg Jacoby with Elga Brink in the lead role and the two Britons Stewart Rome and Jack Trevor as their applicants.
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Elga Lee of England is charged with murder in a Japanese court. She traveled to the land of the rising sun because she wanted to inherit there. The executor died before the inheritance matter could be settled. She found faithful help in this matter in compatriot Jack Kent. Kent was also the one who brought Elga together with the wealthy Chinese Fu-Chow. But one day this Asian, inflamed by his passion to call a white European woman his own, assaulted him, so that Miss Lee stabbed him in self-defense with Fu-Chow's own dagger. The court sees the same cause and therefore acquits Elga Lee from the murder charge.
This exceptional situation brought Elga and Jack closer to each other. They fell in love with each other and a little later marry quietly. Then the young happiness settled in Shanghai. When Kent fell badly while riding, he had to stay in bed for a long time in order to recover completely. During the period of self-sacrificing care by Elga, Kent's friend, Robert Elliot, is also a regular guest at the couple's home. When Elliot wants to kiss her one day while walking together, Elga pushes him back, whereupon the two of them fall out. Meanwhile, the bedridden Jack is completely clueless what has just happened in his environment, as his wife tells him nothing of Robert's advances.
When a party is held in his home to mark Jack's recovery, Robert makes another attempt at Elga and this time has more success - so much more so that Elga finally asks her husband to release her. Before the divorce papers can be signed, Elga secretly witnesses a jealousy scene between Robert and his ex-girlfriend Harriet, which he doesn't really want to let go, because he tells Harriet that he doesn't love Elga at all. Shaken by remorse and guilt, Elga wants to return to her husband with bowed head.
On the way back to home and hearth, Elga is ambushed and kidnapped by two coolies hired by Harriet. Elliot's ex, who is actually not his ex yet, wants to get rid of the annoying competitor. Elga ends up on a junk as a prisoner of the two Chinese. Harriet, however, gradually realizes what she has actually done with it and confesses to Robert Elliot that she has acted wickedly. He goes to Kent, and both men set out to find Elga and free her. There is a chase and final man-to-man battle until Elga, who is about to be sold to the highest bidder in an ominous "auction", can be freed from the hands of the villains. Elga finally returns to the arms of her faithful husband.
Production notes
Colonial Scandal was shot in the second half of 1926 in Japan and China (outdoor shots) as well as in December 1926 and January 1927 and in the Efa studio in Berlin. The film passed film censorship on March 2, 1927 and premiered the following month.
The film structures come from Hermann Warm and Franz Schroedter .
useful information
A large part of the cast is also involved in Jacoby's production of the same production Die Frau ohne Namen , which was also filmed in 1926 during Jacoby's film expedition to the United States (including Hawaii) and to Southeast Asia (in Japan and China).
criticism
Paimann's film lists summed up: “The subject has an original effect due to its milieu. It's interesting and clear. In terms of direction, more speed would have been an advantage. The presentation is consistently good. Particularly noteworthy are the exceptionally beautiful original recordings from Japan and China, which one has rarely seen in this way. "
Web links
- Colonial scandal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Colonial scandal at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Gerhard Lamprecht : German silent films 1927–1931, hrgg. from the Deutsche Kinemathek eV Berlin, p. 67. Entry "The woman without a name"
- ↑ Love in intoxication in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from January 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
