Game on Board
{{Short description|1936 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Game on Board
| image = Game on Board.jpg
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| director = Herbert Selpin
| producer = Martin Pichert
| writer = {{ubl|Axel Ivers (play)|Herbert Selpin|Walter Zerlett-Olfenius}}
| screenplay =
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| starring = {{ubl|Viktor de Kowa|Susi Lanner|Alfred Abel}}
| music = {{ubl|Michael Jary|Heinrich Strecker}}
| cinematography = Bruno Timm
| editing = Alexandra Anatra
| studio = Neucophon Tonfilm-Produktion
| distributor = Terra Film
| released = {{film date|1936|11|3|df=y}}
| runtime = 82 minutes
| country = Germany
| language = German
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Game on Board ({{langx|de|Spiel an Bord}}) is a 1936 German comedy crime film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Viktor de Kowa, Susi Lanner and Alfred Abel.Bock & Bergfelder p. 443 Location shooting took place in Bremerhaven and New York and on the Atlantic crossing of the ocean liner SS Bremen. Interior scenes were shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Czerwonski.
Synopsis
Young chauffeur Viktor boards an ocean liner as a stowaway on an Atlantic crossing to America. A series of mistaken identities follow as he is confused for a millionaire travelling incognito, and is also able to thwart the schemes of two fraudsters on board.
Cast
- Viktor de Kowa as Viktor Müller
- Susi Lanner as Susanne Rauh, Sekretärin
- Alfred Abel as I. C. Corner, Konzernchef
- Carsta Löck as Fräulein Distelmann, Politesse
- Jakob Tiedtke as Herr Henning
- Erika Bert as Astrid, seine Tochter
- Hubert von Meyerinck as Marquis de la Tours, ein Betrüger
- Paul Heidemann as Baron von Western, sein Komplize
- Ernst Waldow as Corner Sekretär Black
- Günther Lüders as Matrose
- Erich Fiedler as Obersteward
- Hans Joachim Schaufuß as Boy Horst
- Edith Meinhard as erste Bewerberin für den Sekretärinposten
- Max Wilmsen as Hafenarbeiter
- Fritz Draeger as Steward
- Lothar Devaal as Steward
- Curt Lauermann as Besatzungsmitglied
- Jutta von Remsky as zweite Bewerberin für den Sekretärinposten
- Curt de Planque as Tänzer im Speisesaal
- Ferdinand Robert as Passagier im Speisesaal
- Klaus Seiwert as Passagier im Speisesaal
- Ernst Stimmel
- Flora Berthold
References
{{Reflist}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book | editor-first1 = Hans-Michael | editor-last1 = Bock | editor-first2 = Tim | editor-last2 = Bergfelder | title = The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-1-57181-655-9 }}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0028293}}
{{Herbert Selpin}}
Category:1930s crime comedy films
Category:German crime comedy films
Category:Films of Nazi Germany
Category:1930s German-language films
Category:Films directed by Herbert Selpin
Category:Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
Category:German black-and-white films
Category:Films set on ocean liners
Category:Films scored by Michael Jary
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