Attention! Love! Risk of death!
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Attention! Love! Risk of death! Rivals in the world record |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1930 |
| length | 80 (silent film), 84 (sound film) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ernő Metzner |
| script | Ernö Metzner, Bob Stoll |
| production | Bob Stoll |
| music |
Victor Langer , only in the sound film version |
| camera | Eduard von Borsody |
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Attention! Love! Risk of death! (Silent film title) or rivals in the world record (later sound film version ) is a late German silent film from 1929 and one of the first feature films about motor racing . The director was the film architect Ernő Metzner . The main actor and producer of the film Bob Stoll played a dual role.
action
Bob and Max von Oldeslo are brothers who can hardly be distinguished with the naked eye. They are rivals in everything they do. As a motor sportsman in a racing car as well as when competing for the favor of women. Max turns out to be very jealous of Bob, especially in view of the fact that the beautiful, young Countess Harriet began to flirt with Max and shows great interest in Brother Bob. To get rid of this and expose him to the charge of manipulation, Max damages the racing car of fellow competitor Graf Sternberg and draws suspicion on Bob. When the count promptly had an accident, Bob was arrested by Oldeslo because certain tools used for the attack belonged to him. As the winner, Max can receive the sash and the trophy. Countess Harriet's belief in her lover's innocence begins to falter, and she eventually becomes the wife of the villainous Max.
Max's triumph at eliminating the innocent Bob doesn't last long. His bad character and weak demeanor make him an uninhibited gambler even on his honeymoon, and he squanders all the money Harriet has brought into the marriage. So broke, he now wants to get rid of his wife as quickly as possible before she can find out about him and his wrong game. Max proposes a divorce, but demands that Harriet take part in a car race for him beforehand. The murderous husband takes out high life insurance for his wife. Max also wants to get rid of the Chinese auto mechanic Kinlung, who once observed Max manipulating Graf Sternberg's car but is in Max's hands because of an attempted theft. He forces him to ride as a passenger in Harriet's manipulated vehicle.
Brother Bob has escaped the police for some time with Kinlung's help at a local appointment on his own behalf and now learns from his ailing daughter Grace about the villain's sinister sabotage plan. Bob rushes to the racetrack where the "accident" is supposed to take place and races daringly after Harriet on the racetrack at high speed. He prevents the worst and can save the life of his queen of hearts in a daring maneuver. Co-driver Kinlung, on the other hand, had a serious accident and, dying, confessed to his and Max's misdeeds. Bob and Harriet can finally embrace each other.
Production notes
The exterior shots of this racing driver's lane were made in July and August 1929 on the Nürburgring and the Avus (Berlin), the interior shots in the Staaken studios. The six-stroke act with a length of 2000 meters passed the film censorship on December 11, 1929 and was banned from young people. The Munich premiere of Achtung! Love! Risk of death! took place on March 7, 1930. Since in the meantime the sound film had largely prevailed, a dubbed sound version of the silent film was also produced, which was released in cinemas under the title Rivals in the world record . This version ran in Berlin on September 23, 1930.
The buildings come from the director Metzner, Gustav Rathje was the production manager. Hans Casparius , involved in the film as a still photographer , also took on the supporting role of the fatally injured racing driver Count Sternberg.
Liselott Schaak , who was 20 at the time of shooting , made her film debut here in the role of Harriet.
Reviews
The reviews were mostly poor. Below are two examples:
“Bob Stoll ... plays the two brothers. Without any particular acting ambition, but brilliant in the execution of breakneck sensations. Ernö Metzner draws for the direction of the sometimes very constructed material, the motifs and contexts of which are not always convincing. "
“The ursage of the Bible in a modern haircut, Cain and Abel on the racetrack in their car - and it will not be a sensation, but just a film of cars and love. (...) Cain and Abel, the good and the bad brother, are both portrayed by Bob Stoll. He makes Cain as pale and colorless as Abel is by nature. Ernö Metzner gives the racetrack what the racetrack is. With a few lively races, as every average surgeon can now after 30 years of film, no film has yet been made. "