The zinc man (1931)

Movie
Original title	The zinc man
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1931
length	70 minutes
Rod
Director	Carl Lamač , ; Martin Frič
script	Rudolf Katscher , ; Egon Eis , ; Otto Eis
production	Carl Lamač
music	Florian C. Reithner (new version)
camera	Otto Heller
cut	Alwin Elling , ; Heinz Ritter
occupation
	Lissy Arna : Lillie Trent; Karl Ludwig Diehl : Captain Leslie; Fritz Rasp : Frank Sutton; Peggy Norman : Beryl Stedman; Paul Hörbiger : Joshua Harras, reporter; Szöke Szakall : Bill Anerley, Director of the Leopard Club; Jack Mylong Coin : Jewel Harry; Robert Thoeren : Charles Tillmann; Ernst Reicher : Inspector Elford; Karl Forest : Sergeant Miller; Iwa Wanja : manicure lady; Ilse Lange : Employee at Sutton & Co.; Marianne Kupfer : Zena, table lady; Antonie Jaeckel : cloakroom; Fritz Greiner : Cardsharps; Peter Leska : King, player; Michael von Newlinski : Pickpocket; Paul Rehkopf : crook; Klaus Pohl : Player; Charlie Dodo; Hans Ritter : crook; Gustav Püttjer : crook;

Der Zinker is a German crime film based on the novel of the same name (original title: The Squeaker ) by Edgar Wallace . The film was produced in 1931 by the German Ondra-Lamac-Film GmbH in Berlin and directed by Carl Lamac and Mac Fric . The premiere took place on July 30, 1931 in the atrium in Berlin. The film is the fourth Edgar Wallace film with German participation.

action

Scotland Yard periodically receives anonymous letters containing details of planned jewel theft or wanted criminals. Inspector Elford believes the informer is the so-called Zinker. The unscrupulous criminal reveals unpleasant rivals with whom he cannot come to an agreement. When Juwelen-Harry, whom the police questioned little before about the Zinker, is murdered in front of the office of the car dealer Frank Sutton, the investigator is certain that the Zinker is responsible for a whole series of other unsolved crimes.

Beryl Stedman, Sutton's niece, is warned by the zinc worker about her groom Charles Tillmann, an employee of the car exporter. During a phone call, valuable pearl jewelry is stolen from Frank Sutton in the Leopard Club. On the basis of an anonymous complaint, the police found the jewelry at Tillmann's, who were then arrested. Since the police believe he is innocent, he is released. A little later you find Frank Sutton, who wanted to set a trap for the zinc, poisoned in the Leopard Club. The police finally succeed in tracking down the zinc man. When he jumps into a car and flees, there is an exchange of fire. The stranger races through a bridge railing with the burning car and falls into the depths. Finally, the approaching police can expose the unscrupulous criminal and arrest him. It's the reporter Joshua Harras.

background

Reinhold Schünzel was initially planned as the director . The outdoor recordings took place from March 17 to April 1931 in Prague and the surrounding area. The interior shots were shot in the Efa studio in Berlin-Halensee . The Berlin-based Ondra-Lamac-Film GmbH later produced the Edgar Wallace films The Witcher (1932) and The Double (1934). In the novel and in the remake from 1963 , Frank Sutton is the zinc, in this film another person is exposed as the main criminal. After the Second World War, Fritz Rasp played in five other Edgar Wallace films. The screenwriters Rudolf Katscher and Egon Eis also worked on other Wallace films after the war.

The film inspectorate issued a youth ban on the film. Only two copies of the film survived worldwide, from which the film archive of the Federal Archives reconstructed the film. Since the technology did not allow music synchronization at the time, the film was accompanied by music by Florian C. Reithner for the revival in July 2009 . In September 2010 the film was released for the first time on DVD in both audio versions . The film was first broadcast on September 25, 2011 during an Edgar Wallace themed evening on ARTE .

Further film adaptations

The Squeaker (UK 1930) - directed by Edgar Wallace (with Percy Marmont , Anne Gray )
The Squeaker (Great Britain 1937) - directed by William K. Howard (with Edmund Lowe , Sebastian Shaw )
Der Zinker (Germany / France 1963) - Director: Alfred Vohrer (with Heinz Drache , Barbara Rütting )

literature

Edgar Wallace: The zinc man . German translation. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-05372-2 .
Joachim Kramp , Jürgen Wehnert: The Edgar Wallace Lexicon. Life, work, films. It is impossible not to be captivated by Edgar Wallace! Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .

Web links

The Squeaker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The zinc at Filmportal.de
Music for Der Zinker Seeber FILM Verlag


Pre-war period	The Great Unknown (1927) • The Red Circle (1929) • The Strangler (1929) • The Zinker (1931) • The Witcher (1932) • The Double (1934)
post war period	The Frog with the Mask (1959) • The Red Circle (1960) • The Avenger (1960) • The Gang of Terror (1960) • The Green Archer (1961) • The Dead Eyes of London (1961) • The Secret of the Yellow Daffodils (1961) • The Forger of London (1961) • The Strange Countess (1961) • The Riddle of the Red Orchid (1962) • The Door with the Seven Locks (1962) • The Inn on the Thames (1962) • The Curse the yellow snake (1963) • The zinc man (1963) • The black abbot (1963) • The Indian cloth (1963) • The drums of death on the great river (1963) • Room 13 (1964) • The crypt with the riddle lock (1964) • The Witcher (1964) • The Gates of Traitors (1964) • Sanders and the Ship of Death (1965) • News from the Witcher (1965) • The Scary Monk (1965) • The Mystery of the Silver Triangle (1966) • The Hunchback of Soho ( 1966) • The White Nun's Secret (1966) • The Blue Hand (1967) • The Monk with the Whip (1967) • The Dog of Blackwood Castle (1968) • Under the Spell of the Eerie (1968) • The Gorilla of Soho (1968) • The Man with the Glass Eye (1969) • The Face in the Dark (1969) • The Devil Came from Akasava (1971) • The Dead from the Thames (1971) • The Secret of the Green Pin ( 1972) • The Mystery of the Silver Crescent (1972)