Modern pirates

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Movie
Original title Modern pirates
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1928
Rod
Director Manfred Noa
script Margarete M. Langen ,
Bobby E. Lüthge
production NOA-Film GmbH, Berlin
music Paul Dessau
camera Willy Goldberger
occupation

Modern Pirates (subtitle A South Sea Adventure ) is a German adventure film from 1928 by Manfred Noa , which is set in Japan and on a fictional group of islands in the Pacific Ocean .

action

A large passenger steamer was kidnapped by “stowaways” off the Chinese coast and disappeared without a trace. Commissioner Brent suspects a political background. Apparently a secret society financed by an unknown major power is planning to proclaim a Pacific island group as an independent state.

On his trip to the crime scene, Brent meets a film actress group that includes Dorothy Gordon, Fredy Pitpit and Lincoln. In Nagasaki , Dorothy meets her former fiancé Morton, who has just joined the secret society. The former naval officer wants to persuade Dorothy to also join the federal government, which she refuses with shock.

During a film recording on the high seas, the film crew gets caught in a typhoon , with Dorothy, Pitpit and Lincoln being driven away from the location. Brent manages to save the three with a boat , but they end up on a lonely island, which turns out to be the headquarters of the secret society. They realize that the hijacked passenger steamer will soon arrive on the island. The next night a schooner went down with the conspirators on the coast . A lone survivor, Juanita in uniform, is captured.

The film crew and Brent decide on a deception. They disguise themselves as insurgents and play the insurrection leaders when the hijacked ocean liner arrives. With the help of remorseful Morton, they manage to fight the mercenary troops . With warships that have meanwhile been notified , it is possible to put down the uprising; Morton is rehabilitated and is reinstated as a naval officer.

background

In the late 1920s / early 1930s there were some spectacular raids on passenger ships in Chinese waters, with the pirates checking in as passengers, then attacking the ship's command and transferring the stolen goods to junks at previously arranged meeting points.

The distribution company was Südfilm AG, the German premiere took place on October 25, 1928, on March 2, 1930 in Estonia and on March 17, 1930 in Portugal.

Other titles were Piratas Modernos in Brazil and Portugal and Moodsas mereröövlid in Estonia.

literature

  • Illustrierter Filmkurier , 10th year 1928, No. 993.

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