The Daredevil (1931)

Movie
Original title	The daredevil
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1931
length	86 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Richard Eichberg
script	Richard Eichberg Josef Than
production	Richard Eichberg
music	Hans May
camera	Heinrich gardener Bruno Mondi
cut	Willy Zeunert
occupation
Hans Albers : Hans Röder, port policeman Alfred Beierle : Martin Timm, port policeman Marta Eggerth : Trude Sigurd Lohde : Patterson, rich American Gerda Maurus : Gloria, his girlfriend Ernst Stahl replica : George Brown alias McBorn, gangster Fritz Klippel : Parker, his accomplice Leonard Steckel : Barini, owner of the hippodrome Reinhold Bernt : Willy, stable master Anna Müller-Lincke : Mrs. Pahlke, owner of the artist pension Eugen Burg : Andersen, detective inspector Senta Söneland : Miss Schönholz, detective

The Daredevil is a German feature film from 1931 directed by Richard Eichberg . The main roles are occupied by Hans Albers and Marta Eggerth .

action

Hans Röder is a port police officer in Hamburg and is known as a “daredevil” because of his courageous commitment to law and order. The American millionaire Patterson has a big party on his luxury yacht. Röder rescues a girl from the harbor basin during the party. Shortly after the rescue act, he is knocked down by a stranger and the girl is kidnapped by this man on a motorcycle. Hans Röder pursues the man and the trail leads him to the seedy hippodrome . A short time later, police officer Röder receives news of a jewelry theft on the millionaire's yacht. Since he is responsible for the case, his path leads him back to the hippodrome . Here he also finds the girl again. Her name is Trude and she works as an art rider; however, she actually wants to become a singer. Hans falls in love with her, although the suspicion of theft weighs heavily on her. For Röder, however, this is only an even greater motivation to catch the real thief. And very soon he becomes convinced that George Brown is the culprit.

background

The Daredevil is Richard Eichberg's second film after Der Greifer , in which Hans Albers mimed an energetic police officer and thus cemented his image as a blond Hans and early action hero in German talkies. The film recordings were shot on original locations at the port of Hamburg . The premiere of the film took place on November 26, 1931 in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin .

criticism

Criticism from the Lichtbild-Bühne on November 27, 1931: The audience fevered, worried, fears for the hero of the film, as if good Hans himself was in danger. Every turn for the better, every rescue from a precarious situation is applauded with thunderous applause.

Web links

• The daredevil at filmportal.de
• The Daredevil in the Internet Movie Database (English)