Panic (1928)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | panic |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1928 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harry Piel |
| script | Herbert Nossen |
| production | Harry Piel Ring-Film AG, Berlin |
| music | Artur Guttmann |
| camera |
Ewald Daub Gotthardt Wolf |
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Panik is a German sensational film by and with Harry Piel from 1928.
action
Arsen Dupin makes the country unsafe as the burglar king and master thief. He has obtained false papers and is currently in Paris under the name of Commissioner Cobbler. Jack of all trades, adventurer and private detective Harry Peel now sees a good opportunity to finally put the crooks down. In order not to attract any further attention during his approach, he lodged himself in the "Gigantic" as the Maharajah of Lahore - appropriately with a King Tiger as a companion. Peel suspects that Dupin won't be far either. Because thanks to the millionaire guests who stayed in this luxury hotel, a fat booty can be expected in this luxury hotel, just waiting to be tapped. But in the pretty Anita Bell, Dupin has a smart helper who is also staying in the "Gigantic". She becomes aware of Peel when he warns the super-rich hotel guests about the activities of Arsen Dupin in another masquerade as Mr. X.
Now the master thief comes up with something and directs the suspicion of being the dreaded thief on that fake maharajah alias Peel alias Mr. X. Soon the police arrive, who want to know whether the maharajah is really one. Again and again, however, Peel can evade such controls that would reveal his camouflage. While a cat-and-mouse game begins between Peel and Dupin, Dupin's accomplice gradually develops feelings for Harry (in his masquerade as Mr. X). However, that does not prevent her from temporarily transporting Peel into the realm of dreams with a numbing cigarette to enable Arsen's big raid in the hotel. When she secretly wants to leave Harry's luxury abode, Harry's hotel room tiger has something against it and growls and prevents her from escaping. Then finally Harry Peel is wide awake again and forcefully forces Anita's confession.
Harry immediately rushes to the city's revue theater with his huge house cat. Dupin intends to cause a panic with the big cats appearing there in the show program, which he intends to release by bribing the guards. He wants to use the big mess to steal the jewelry of those present. However, the villain did not expect Peel to appear. While Harry keeps people from worse, his tiger keeps the villain at bay. Fearless and daring as ever, Harry Peel succeeds in shooing the other predators back into their cages. Dupin is arrested and applause breaks out from the rescued. And while Peel leaves the theater, the theater performance continues undaunted.
Production notes
Panik originated in the late autumn / winter of 1927/28 and was premiered on February 23, 1928 in Berlin's UFA-Palast am Zoo . The shooting was done in the May studios in Berlin-Weißensee . During the recording, there was an accident at the beginning of December 1927 when Piel was pushed back by the participating tiger and then fell several meters deep.
The Filmbauten come from Erich Czerwonski , Walter Zeiske was one of the manager. The film, produced by the small company Ring-Film, was marketed by UFA as Harry Piel film.
In addition to Piel's King Tiger, there were other animal contributors: lions , brown bears , polar bears and a collar bear .
reception
Oskar Kalbus discovered some innovations in this work by Piel: One day Harry Piel took off tails and claws, and finally also the maharaja's costume, and with the film “Panik” (1928) made a completely new sensational actor. With this film, UFA gave Harry Piel the opportunity to play in a really big style for the first time and to present himself to the audience once in a role that was completely unconventional in terms of tradition. However, the lions could not be missing here either.
In the issue of March 2, 1928, the Neue Freie Presse briefly discussed Piel's latest work: "With this, the representative of German cinema romanticism has won a place, which in his film" Panik ", however, he largely attributed to achievements thanks to another actor, namely the magnificent Tiger Bylard. The film itself is an amusing detective story in which Harry Piel, his tiger and a troop of lions are well supported by Dary Holm, Kaiser-Titz, Eugen Burg, Bender, etc. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ The film actor Harry Piel attacked by a tiger. In: Neue Freie Presse , December 5, 1927, p. 05 (online at ANNO ).
- ^ Oskar Kalbus: On the becoming of German film art. 1st part: The silent film. Berlin 1935. p. 90
- ↑ "Panic". In: Neue Freie Presse , March 2, 1928, p. 18 (online at ANNO ).
Web links
- Panic in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Panic at filmportal.de