The secret agent (1932)

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Movie
Original title The secret agent
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1932
length 93 minutes
Rod
Director Harry Piel
script Werner Scheff
Harry Piel
production Harry Piel
music Fritz Wenneis
camera Ewald Daub
occupation

and Charly Berger , Gerhard Damman , Wilhelm Diegelmann , Erich Dunskus , Leopold von Ledebur , Paul Moleska , Hans Wallner

The Secret Agent is a German action and adventure film from 1932 by and with Harry Piel .

action

Chemist Professor Managan invented a terrible new chemical weapon , a deadly poison gas , that could be used to wipe out humanity. The jack-of-all-trades and adventurer Harry Parker, who is in the service of an ominous society to combat and prevent a poison gas war, is dispatched to wrest the secret formula from the professor working abroad and then destroy it. Parker's journey starts spectacularly. Since the chemist lives and works far away, Parker jumps out of a plane with a parachute before the secret service of this country can arrest him. Parker does not suspect that there are already other interested parties in the poison gas formula, but who by no means intend to prevent it from being implemented, but rather intend to use it for the manufacture of special weapons if necessary. Harry, persecuted as an enemy spy by Colonel Salit, chief of intelligence in that country, receives some important information from a confidante named Bashin, known as “The Limping Man”, before this man is murdered. A little later, Harry tries to be close to Managan's daughter, the painter Ruth, in order to befriend her. He poses to her as an old college friend whom she obviously cannot remember. He intends to get to the professor in this way. Ruth immediately begins to fall in love with him. Harry hears from a police officer that the country's secret services are already looking for him.

When Harry manages to get into the chemical factory and see Prof. Managan in his laboratory, he reproaches the professor with regard to his deadly formula and, as a representative of the Society for Combating Toxic Gas Wars, tries to convince him that the scientist is the Will lead the world to the brink. Soon Prof. Managan can see with his own eyes how dangerous his formula is. When Colonel Salit appears, who is actually playing a double game and spying as an agent of a hostile power, there is a duel between Harry and Salit. When a gas bottle with the deadly contents is accidentally knocked over, the poison gas escapes unhindered and kills the villain. Finally Prof. Managan has some understanding and agrees to the destruction of his poison gas formula. Managan's daughter Ruth and Harry, the hero of the day, eventually become a couple and leave the country with Ruth's father.

Production notes

The secret agent was filmed from December 12, 1931 to January 7, 1932 in the Grunewald studio in Berlin and in mid-January 1932 in Staaken (aircraft exterior shots). The premiere took place on February 18, 1932 in the Berlin Mozart Hall.

Edmund Heuberger took over the dialogue direction. Joe Pasternak took over the production management. The film structures were designed by Gustav A. Knauer , while Charles Métain provided the sound . Frank Günther wrote the texts for the composition by Fritz Wenneis . Eigil Wangøe took the still photos.

A song was played: Day after day you go through life lonely

criticism

The Österreichische Film-Zeitung saw “ The Secret Agent ” as “an exciting and captivating film, which at the same time is remarkable for its honest tendency - against the poison gas war. (…) An unusual pace, strong tension and extremely interesting scenes, such as the parachute jump and the flight over the sea of ​​lights in the big city, the poison gas panic, etc. a. belong to the particularly impressive moments of this new Harry Piel film "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "The Secret Agent". In:  Österreichische Film-Zeitung , February 27, 1932, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fil

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