Captain Craddock

{{Short description|1931 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Captain Craddock

| image =File:Captain Craddock.jpg

| caption =

| director = {{ubl|Max de Vaucorbeil|Hanns Schwarz}}

| producer = Erich Pommer

| writer = {{ubl|Rowland V. Lee|Hans Müller|Fritz Reck-Malleczewen (novel)|Franz Schulz}}

| starring = {{ubl|Jean Murat|Käthe von Nagy|Charles Redgie}}

| music = Werner R. Heymann

| cinematography = {{ubl|Konstantin Irmen-Tschet|Günther Rittau}}

| editing =

| studio = UFA

| distributor = L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne

| released = {{Film date|1931|12|04|df=yes}}

| runtime = 87 minutes

| country = Germany

| language = French

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Captain Craddock ({{langx|fr|Le capitaine Craddock}}) is a 1931 German French-language musical comedy film directed by Max de Vaucorbeil and Hanns Schwarz and starring Jean Murat, Käthe von Nagy and Charles Redgie.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090207031920/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/60591 BFI.org] It is a French-language version of the 1931 German film Bombs on Monte Carlo. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios of UFA in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut. It is sometimes known as Bombe Sur Monte Carlo.

Cast

Cultural references

According to Philippe Goddin, author of Hergé - Chronologie d'une oeuvre{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}, the name of Tintin's character Captain Haddock is inspired by this film.

In The Crab with the Golden Claws, Haddock sings one of the film songs, Les gars de la Marine.

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