The impossible Mr. Pitt

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Movie
Original title The impossible Mr. Pitt
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1938
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Harry Piel
script Georg Mühlen-Schulte
Reinhold Meißner
production Harry Piel
for Ariel-Film, Berlin, on behalf of Terra-Filmkunst GmbH, Berlin
music Ernst Leenen
camera Karl Puth
Fritz von Friedl
cut Carl Otto Bartning
occupation

The Impossible Mr. Pitt is a German adventure and crime film by and with Harry Piel from 1938.

action

The two buddies Tom and Tim got to know each other during a tangible fight in a Tunisian harbor bar. Since they did not have any identification papers with them when they were arrested, they were simply imprisoned and sentenced to forced labor. Tom and Tim break out of jail and grab a small boat to escape the police. In doing so, they accidentally ram the Stella , a noble large yacht lying at anchor. Both buddies escape to the ship and hide there. The owner is a certain Lucienne Cay, married Pitt; an upper-class lady whose father Thomas Cay is the president of the local mine syndicate. When Tom is mistaken for her husband, Mr. Pitt, Tom leaves people believing it and gives orders to set sail immediately, even though half the crew is still on shore leave.

When Lucienne sees her "husband" for the first time, she immediately recognizes him as the convict Tom, whom she recently saw as a slave laborer. Since she is impressed by his impertinence and his perky self-confidence, she also finds him otherwise quite neat and she married her real husband, Mr. Pitt, only for the sake of her father, Lucienne leaves it with a smile at Tom's white lie and does not let him fly. Strange incidents soon occur on the Stella ; obviously someone is sabotaging. Tom gets to the bottom of the matter and, at the risk of his life, can prevent a steam boiler from exploding. The radio system was also destroyed. When a police ship docks to the side, Tom knows that not only is a saboteur on board, but that this man obviously knows his true identity and must have alerted the police shortly before the radio was destroyed. Meanwhile, Tim prepares his and Tom's escape by clearing a dinghy. But in the process he is knocked down by a stranger who immediately takes off with the dinghy.

Since the police cannot identify Tom and Tim as these, the police cruiser sets off again without having achieved anything. None of the police officers suspected that the two wanted men smuggled themselves onto their ship. On land in Sicily , Tim discovers José Galvez, who he believes was the one who knocked him down on the Stella . Tom also has a chicken with galvez to pluck. A fight ensues between the two of them, and the rushing police take all three into custody. It turns out that Galvez once stole Tom's papers and then slipped into his role. Because the real Mr. Pitt is Tom and Lucienne is actually legally married to him, without having known it so far. Since both have taken a liking to each other, they decide not to change anything in this state of affairs.

Production notes

The Impossible Mr. Pitt was commissioned by Terra Filmkunst from mid-November to mid-December 1937 on the Dalmatian coast , in Split and on the island of Hvar and in early January in the UFA studio in Neubabelsberg . Premiere on April 16, 1938 in Braunschweig , the film was shown for the first time in Berlin on May 21, 1938 in three world premiere theaters. In 1950 the film passed an FSK test and was released again in cinemas under the title The Night of a Thousand Sensations . On August 24, 1975 the television first broadcast of The Impossible Mr. Pitt on ZDF .

The film constructions come from Hans Sohnle and Otto Erdmann , the production group management on behalf of Terra was Hans Conradi .

Georg Mühlen-Schulte's script was based on his own novel, which was only published in the year of the premiere (1938). In addition, Piel based himself on his own earlier film material: The silent witness (1917) and The Prince of the Mountains (1921).

criticism

The lexicon of international films writes: "Kintopp adventure playing in an exotic setting, somewhat confused, but sufficiently exciting and amusing."

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Actor Hans Zesch-Ballot , who was cast several times by Piel in the 1930s, also directed the dialogue
  2. ↑ The Impossible Mr. Pitt in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed November 24, 2013.

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